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Embark on a 5-day tour to explore Antisirabe best known for, known for its thermal springs and many colorful rickshaws. Proceed to Ranomafana National park, covered in thick vegetation, broken by waterfalls and mountain streams. The park’s star attraction is the golden bamboo lemur, often found grazing among the bamboo thickets
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Operating days: Mondays
Departure time: 0830 hours
Duration: 5 days
Single Supplement:$270
Departure point: Antananarivo
Arrival point: Antananarivo
Special instructions: please contact Across Africa Tours and Travel to confirm your departure information at least one week before your first day of travel
Accommodation within Antananarivo
Departure: 8.3oam
Arrival : 5:00 pm
Embark on a 5-day tour to explore Antisirabe best known for, known for its thermal springs and many colorful rickshaws. Proceed to Ranomafana National park, covered in thick vegetation, broken by waterfalls and mountain streams. The park’s star attraction is the golden bamboo lemur, often found grazing among the bamboo thickets
We will pick you up from the hotel and start your adneture with a drive to Antsirabe through the mountains, the hills, and the rice fields. On the way, you will see many burial tombs, some simple; others elaborate which play an important role in the local people and their fascination with the afterlife. Arrived in Antsirabe after 03 hour’s drive: the thermal station, “the water city» as it is called; has become a very important economic city, famous for its fresh products and its mineral water, commonly called “Visy Gasy”. The town is well known as well for its numerous rickshaws and precious and semi-precious stones.
Ovenight at Royal Palace
Meals : Breakfast
Breakfast at the hotel. Short city tour of the town and its small manufacturer of corn horns, and semi-precious stones. Drive to Ambositra the capital of Malagasy handicrafts. Visit different shops then continue to Fianarantsoa. Upon arrival, a city tour of this town which is the capital of the Betsileo tribe. You arrange the lunch with your guide and drive to reach Ambalavao.
Ambalavao is a town in Madagascar located southeast of the Haute Matsiatra region, 56km south of Fianarantsoa. It is known for its beautiful house verandas with wooden balustrades formed by geometric patterns. Anja Reserve is one of the ideal places to meet the ring-tailed lemur up close. Le lemur catta is a relatively large, diurnal lemur, easily recognized by its black-and-white ringed tail, and it is by far the most terrestrial of all living lemur species. It has a head-tail length of 95-110cm. This species is the best known of Madagascar’s lemurs and cannot be confused with any other species. You have to see ring-tailed lemurs live in multi-male, multi-female groups usually numbering 6-24 animals. After the visit return to the hotel and.
Overnight at Zomatel Hotel.
Meals Breakfast
In Ambalavao there is an interesting factory making hand-made paper which is well worth visiting. It takes ten minutes or so to see the various processes at work and there is a small gift shop at which you can buy some of the products. On Wednesday the possibility to visit the zebu market is very interesting. Visit the Anja villager’s reserve where you can spot easily the ring-tailed lemur. In the afternoon the second part of the journey is back to reach Ranomafana.
Overnight at Thermal Hotel
Meals : Breakfast).
This morning we search Ranomafana National Park’s rainforest for lemurs, accompanied by our local naturalist guide. This is a high-altitude rainforest reserve where the Golden Bamboo Lemur was discovered in 1986. The forest is home to 11 other lemur species, endemic chameleons, Leaf-tailed Geckos, Mantella Frogs, and a myriad of birds. We embark on a quest to see the fabled “Hapalemur aureus” – the Golden Bamboo Lemur – which is only found in Ranomafana. We will also see many different species of birds, such as Ground Rollers. The Park is particularly rich in flora and features many plant varieties unknown elsewhere, including different types of orchids and ferns. The approximately 40,000 ha of Parc National de Ranomafana, with its rainforest-covered hills and abundant wildlife, has long been considered one of Madagascar’s highlights. Altitudes in the park range from 800 to 1,200 meters above sea level. In addition to its densely-forested hills, Ranomafana’s terrain is characterized by numerous small streams which plummet down to the beautiful Namorona River. Although much of the region has been logged, the park retains relatively large areas of primary forest.This day includes strenuous walks in the rainforest. After 4 hour’s visit, we will get back to the hotel for lunch, and get rest a little bit before starting the Guided night walk in the area around our hotel to try and spot the Rufous Mouse Lemur, the Greater Dwarf Lemur, and some of the other nocturnal wildlife. After the visit, back to the hotel.
Overnight at Thermal Hotel
Meals : Breakfast).
Breakfast early in the morning, then drive back up to Antsirabe and continue East Ward to Antsirabe always through the typical landscape of the highland (rice fields, typical villages of the Merina tribe, rocky hills…). Arrival in Antsirabe in the afternoon, continuation to the capital (Antananarivo). : “Free lunch during the road, to be chosen with the Guide. Transfer to the airport for the international flight.
Meals : Breakfast and lunch