Madagascar Authentic Adventure 10Days /9Nights ( Budget)

Upon arrival at Ivato International Airport.you’ll receive a warm reception from Across Africa Tours and Travel. The Guide will help in the rest of the arrivals process – changing money, setting up your phone with the new SIM, and anything else you need, to start your adventure. We’ll explore Madagascar’s capital, best known as “Tana”.

Accommodation: Le Centell Hotel & Spa
Meal Plan: Breakfast and Dinner

Breakfast, 45mn visit of the Queen’s Palace (Rova Manjakamiadana), transfer to the airport for flight (Departure at 12:20 am) to the west coast of the island, the destination to Morondava (Arrival at 1:20 pm). On your arrival, drive directly to the North, about 42 km following the secondary road which a bit winding, to reach the famous Kirindy Park. Check-in at your hotel (Relais du Kirindy). Around 6:30 PM, you’ll begin a night guided walk at Kirindy Reserve. Kirindy is the best place on the whole island to observe fossa. Other nocturnal species include the rare Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur and pygmy mouse-lemur, fork-crowned lemur, grey mouse lemur, western fat-tailed dwarf lemur, and red-tailed sportive lemur. Several bats, tenrecs, mongoose, and rodents complete the mammal population.

Accommodation: Relais du Kirindy
Meal Plan: Breakfast and Dinner

After breakfast, around 7:30 AM, go about your guided day visit at Kirindy reserve. Kirindy Reserve is home to seven species of lemur. The most common is brown lemurs and the Verreaux’s sifakas. These long-legged, seven-pound lemurs, white with dark patches, leap among tree trunks high in the canopy, propelled by their powerful hind legs but continually maintaining an upright posture. 40 bird species, 50 reptiles families, and 15 amphibian species are also found in this magnificent forest. After the visit, board a ferry to cross to the small village of Belo sur Tsiribihina, where we stop for lunch. Then, continue to the North through a landscape of rice fields and a small village, to arrive at the end of the afternoon at Bekopaka. Overnight will be at the lodge

After breakfast, you’ll proceed to a guided tour to the Bemaraha National Park (Grand Tsingy). You’ll choose an excursion that best meets your fitness level and enthusiasm of the day. There are circuits for all levels of fitness here at this World Heritage Park. Here nature seems to be in perfect harmony with this wild and sharp limestone mountain. The flora consists of a dry western deciduous forest, plants typical of these dry limestone areas, such as species of Aloe and baobab Andasonia, the red-flowered flamboyant tree, Madagascar’s native banana Musa perrier. You can also see typical plants growing in the rocky area such pachypodium, orchids. When t comes to fauna we can see the stump-tailed chameleon Brookesia perarmata, 53 bird, 7 lemur species including Decken’s sifaka Propithecus verreauxi deckeni. Have a picnic organised by your guide, before we continue to the Small Tsingy.

Accommodation: Soleil Du Tsingy
Meal Plan: Breakfast and Dinner

After breakfast, you will embark on a long drive to Morondava. Stop for lunch at Belo sur Tsiribihina. You’ll stop, Baobab Amoureux t, and the second in the famous Streets of Baobabs to appreciate a lavish sunset. Later you will be transferred to the hotel to relax for the rest of the evening

Accommodation: stay at Soleil Des
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner

Today, you will have another long drive to Antisarabe. After breakfast, meet your guide at 7:00 am at the hotel lobby drive directly to Antsirabe with some stops on the road for pictures and breaks if it is necessary. Lunch in Miandrivazo, and then continue to Antsirabe. The city is famous for its buildings dating from the colonial era. Upon arrival check in to the lodge for ovenight.

Accommodation: Royal Palace.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner

Early in the morning, after breakfast, start your day by a city tour in Antsirabe by rickshaw (Visit: Avenue of independence, the famous Hotel des Thermes, a market of stones, and the little Factory of Horn). After the visit, en route to Andasibe with some stops to enjoy the landscape and take photos. One special stop in the Pereiras park. The fascinating 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. After the visit, continue directly to reach Andasibe. On your arrival, check-in at the hotel and then relax for the rest of the day.

Accommodation:Mantadia Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast and Dinner

After breakfast, join your guide to Analamazaotra National Park ( leave the hotel at 7:30 AM), to catch the Indri-Indri and the Diademed Sifaka in their forest home. The visit takes about 4 hours. Within a mile of the park, you can hear the peculiar call of the indri very early in the morning until noon and again in the late afternoon. Indris (called Babakoto in Malagasy) are the largest living lemurs about 1 meter tall. Andasibe is the best place to observe the Indris given that there are a couple of families habituated to humans. It lives in small groups and cannot survive in captivity. Several legends are trying to explain its origins since it is considered a sacred animal in the whole Madagascar. Apart from the Indri, another 13 lemur species inhabit these forests, 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 in the afternoon, later enjoy an amazing up close and personal experience with lemurs on the private Lemurs Island and then on to view many other species in the Vakona Reserve Zoo, where you will see many crocodiles in the huge river enclosure, native birds, and other wildlife in well-kept surroundings. Around 6:30 PM, the start you night guided walk in the park for about one hour. Drive back to the hotel.

Accommodation:Mantadia Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast and Dinner

Today you’ll transfer back to the capital Antananarivo. Upon arrival, we drive to the Royal Hill of Ambohimanga, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, consisting of a royal city and an ensemble of sacred places. The Queen’s Palace here is a symbol of the Merina Kingdom, the dynasty that made Madagascar a modern state. This is a place of pilgrimage and the burial ground for its sovereigns since 1817. Sitting top of the highest hill in Antananarivo, it offers spectacular views of the surroundings. Then transfer to the hotel.

Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Pietra

After breakfast, Before you leave stroll to the shopping mall and markets and purchase some souvenirs at the craft market of La Digue. We will drop you at the airport according to your flight to catch your next destination. End of services