13th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Take the long way home

Horombe plateau in southwestern Madagascar is the land of the Bara, an ethnicity of herdsmen crossing the vast plains with their zebu cattle. Settlements are rare and only found in oases along the few rivers, so every way home is long.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2015
Date Uploaded: 11.2015
Photo Location: West of Ihosy, Madagascar
Camera: NIKON D3200
Copyright: © Ulf Krone