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Madagascar travel Expedition offers the best sights and local secrets from Lemurs, baobabs, rainforest, desert, hiking, and diving. The perfect destination for adventurous travelers from solo travelers or joining our scheduled group tourStep into the rainforests of Andasibe-Mantadia National Park to meet lemurs, revisit an Explorers Club flag expedition through the Tsingy region and visit remote northern villages with a sustainability expert.
Duration: 15 Days
Start: Antananarivo
End: Antananarivo
Category: Mini- adventure (shared)
Single supplement: $610
Age Limit: No limit
Departure: Every Wednesday
Special instructions: please contact Across Africa Tours & Travel to confirm your departure details at least one week before your first day of the visit.
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Highlights
At your flight details upon arrival, meet with our guide who helps you finish all the formalities and transfer you to the hotel.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place at Accommodation: Pietra
After breakfast at the hotel, depart for a visit to the cultural and historical of Ambohimanga royal Palace. Here you will see the royal city, the burial site, and the ensemble of sacred places. The place has maintain its spiritual and sacred character both in ritual practice and the popular imagination for the past 500 years and has remain a place of worship to the pilgrims. Continue to Andasibe with stops at the landscapes for photos and any break if necessary.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place at Accommodation: Mantadia Lodge
Early guided visit to Analamazaotra National Park to catch up with the Indri-Indri and the Diademed Sifaka in their forest home. You can hear the peculiar call of the indri very early in the morning until noon and again in the late afternoon. They are the largest living lemurs and the people of Malagasy call them Babakoto. Anadibe is the best place to observe the Indris and learn more about them as there are several legends trying to explain its origins since it is considered a sacred animal in the whole Madagascar. Apart from the Indri there are other lemur species in the forest such as woody lemur, grey bamboo lemur, diademed sifaka, brown lemur, red mouse-lemur, red-bellied lemur, black and white ruffed lemur and even aye-aye. Lunch at noon and afterward, enjoy the lemur personal experience up close with a visit at the Vakona Reserve Zoo to see the many crocodiles in the huge river enclosure, native birds, and other wildlife in well-kept surroundings.
At around 6:30 PM you will take a 1hour and half guided night visit at the park before going to the hotel.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place at Accommodation: Mantadia Lodge
After breakfast, drive back to Antananarivo with a stop at the Pereiras Park, owned by the Peyrieras family, to see Cocquerel’s Sifaka, and chameleons and many other reptiles, and some other Malagasy animals such as butterflies, moths (the giant Atlas Moth) and tenrecs. Have lunch in town before going with on a visit to Queen’s Palace (Rova Manjakamiadana) on the top of the hill. There you will have a c
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place at Accommodation: Pietraapital view. Remaining time of the day is free
After breakfast at the hotel, transfer directly to Antananarivo airport for a flight to Morondava. Get some shots of the beautiful scenery in the place before continuing to Kirindy. Check-in at your hotel (Relais du Kirindy). Around 6:30 PM, beginning of the Guided night walks at Kirindy. The private reserve is well- known by its giant jumping rat, the “Fosa” (Hypogeomys antimena), the largest carnivorous animal in the country. It is also one of the reserve having most endangered ecosystems, lemur species, and many endemic reptile species. There are also some unique species of rare flora.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place at Accommodation: Relais de Kirindy
After breakfast, drive to the Tsingy of Bemaraha. There will be lunch at Belo Sur Tsiribihina after which you will head north on a drive-by land track well- known as World Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Cross the two rivers-Tsiribihina and Manambolo by a small car ferry before arriving at Bekopaka village.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place at Accommodation: stay at Soleil Des Tsingy
It is one of the most extraordinary sites with the real cathedral of limestone. The dense network of faults, cracks, and blocks of limestone carved in blades is one of the most prominent landscapes of Madagascar. There are 200 million years when the sea of Bemaraha which cover this region. There are six species of lemurs, reptiles and 53 varieties of birds among the marvels which are also the housing environment of the smallest sorts of a chameleon, the “Brookesia Perarmata. Appreciate the magnificent sunset.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place at Accommodation: stay at Soleil Des
Drive to Morondava town via the famous “Allée des Baobabs. Arrive on time for great pictures when the sun is low, raking light, and smooth trunks reflect the orange rays of the sun. Settle at the hotel before the sea for dinner. Lunch at Belo sur Tsiribihina
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place of accommodation: Palissandre Cote Ouest.
Leave Marondava early in the morning as the distance to Antirabe is long. But there will be stops for photos and break if necessary. Lunch in the city of Mlandarivazo.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place of accommodation: Royal Palace.
Stay on road N7 for progress to the south and shop around Ambositra. You will get an opportunity to see carved wood or a piece of marquetry box made with care at the Zafimaniry artisan’s workshop. Stroll the town before moving to Ranomafana, the heart of Betsileo tribe. It is the highest part of Madagascar, and the road is winding as well. Turn east arriving at the rainforest at late noon.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinnner
Place of accommodation: Thermal
Jump into the Ranomafana national park and find out the beautiful sites in the rainforest and the primary forest. Be accompanied by our local guide in this humid area and carry with you waterproofs gargets. You can see various species of lemurs such as Golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus), red-fronted brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus), and red-bellied lemur (Eulemur rubriventer). There are also some rare and endangered species such as Greater bamboo lemur (Hapalemur simus). Botanically the park is genetic reservoir to some rare, endemic plant species, and many medicinal plants. Back the hotel for lunch.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place of accommodation: Thermal
Breakfast at the hotel, then road to south to reach the city of Ranohira to meet Isalo National Park. Stop at the city of Ambalavao for lunch with a small visit of product factory where you have the opportunity to learn the history of the famous Antemoro paper. There will be breaks to notice various change of the mountain and rice field landscape arriving at Isalo at the end of the day.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place of accommodation: Relais De La Reine
Day dedicated to trekking and discovery of the parc, composed of massif in form of ruin dating from jurassic, discovery of the most beautiful landscape of Madagascar. Picnic lunch at the park. Hike along the canyon of Makis where you can go for a dip. At late noon back the hotel via the famous window of Isalo to appreciate a breathtaking and spectacular scene of the color of the sun.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place of accommodation: Relais De La Reine
Wake up early in the morning and drive to Tulear through different botanical settings. On your way, you will see Mahafaly tribe typical tombs so nicely painted and decorated, on which are erected some amazing wooden sculptures and the sea can be seen far away before reaching Tulear. Walk across the market before taking lunch and afterward take your route to Ifaty. Free times for the rest of the day to discover the beach one of the beautiful lagoons of the great island. There will include an optional activity for all the visitors on the edges of Mozambique. You can take sea and the lagoon: diving, dugout ride with Vezo fishers, swim or just leisure. Hikers can discover the inland, specific and extraordinary vegetation composed of euphorbia, baobab, and many more
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Place of accommodation: Pradisier.
Breakfast at the hotel, direct transfer to the airport of Tulear for a flight to the capital city.2 hours flight. At your details, have lunch, and you can choose to hop on hop-off tours in Antananarivo in search of some souvenirs in the artisanal market of the Digue if you have money before a drop-off at the airport for the external flight.