Madagascar Wildlife Tour 14d/13n

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrive in Madagascar

Pass By: Ivato International Airport, N52, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Upon Arrival at Ivato International Airport. You will be welcomed by our Tours Staff. Once you have cleared customs formalities, our Guide will smooth through the rest of the arrivals process – currency exchange, setting up your phone with a new SIM card, and anything else you need. We will provide you 2 (two) SIM cards with Data + National Call + 5mn International call during your stay in Madagascar. Overnight and dinner at Pietra hotel

Meals included:
• Dinner
Accommodation included: overnight at Pietra hotel

Day 2: TANA - PALMARIUM

Stop At: Palmarium Reserve, Brickaville, Madagascar
After breakfast, you are going to join the Palmarium Reserve. Your trip will take around seven hours with some stops for photos or breaks if it is necessary. You need to take a boat to get there (From Manambato to Palmarium). You will arrive there at the end of the day, so you will check-in at the hotel and then begin the guided night walk — dinner and overnight at Akan’ny nof hotel.
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: overnight at Akan’ny nof hotel

Day 3: PALMARIUM

Stop At: Palmarium Reserve, Brickaville, Madagascar
In the morning, you will start a guided day walk at the Palmarium Reserve. It is a little island where inhabits ten species of lemur as Indri, Sifaka, Coronatus, Varécia, Variegata, Propithèques, particularly the well known Aye-Aye. There is also the best and endemic Madagascar palm tree as Dypsis, Ravenea, Orania, Voanioala, and Lemurophoenix). Dinner and overnight at Akan’ny nofy
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: overnight at Akan’ny nofy

Day 4: PALMARIUM – ANDASIBE

Stop At: Andasibe, Andasibe, Toamasina Province
After breakfast, you will reach Andasibe. You check-in at the hotel and then beginning of the guided night walk in a Village Reserve. The visit will take 1 hour and half, and then drive back to the hotel. Night at the Feon’ny ala
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Night at the Feon’ny ala

Day 5: ANDASIBE

Stop At: Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar
Early in the morning, you will start your visit in the Andasibe Mantadia National Park. The primary forest is formed by two distinct protected areas – the Analamazoatra special reserve and the Mantadia national park. Almost the whole park is created by the primary forest, which has never been modified by human beings. It is also a refuge for many animals and plants. Thus, it is not uncommon to come across a multitude of species: lemurs, birds, chameleons, and insects of all kinds. You will enjoy this primary forest and its wildlife the whole day. You will also go trekking along this beautiful landscape and the natural swimming pool. Night at the Feon’ny ala

Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Night at the Feon’ny ala

Day 6: ANDASIBE - TAN

Stop At: Analamazaotra Special Reserve, Perinet II, Andasibe 514 Madagascar
After breakfast, you will start with a guided visit to Analamazaotra National Park (It is better to leave the hotel at 7:30 AM). This morning you need an early start 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) is the giant living lemurs at all, reaching up to 1 meter. 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. 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. After lunch, you will transfer directly to Tana Night at Grand Hotel Urban
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Night at Grand Hotel Urban

Day 7: TANA - MORONDAVA - KIRINDy

Stop At: Kirindy Mitea National Park, Madagascar
You will take a « domestic flight TLE - MOQ.» Upon arrival Morondava, you will be transferred directly to Kirindy National Park, the beginning of the guided night walk. Kirindy National Park may be best known as the only location where the endangered giant jumping rat (Hypogeomys anti-men) and the Madagascar endemic mammalian species of fossa occurs. There are a number of species of nocturnal lemurs present: Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (the world's smallest primate), red-tailed sportive lemur, pygmy mouse lemur, gray mouse lemur, pale fork-marked lemur, Coquerel's giant mouse lemur, and the fat-tailed dwarf lemur. Further mammalian as narrow-striped mongoose, Verreaux's sifaka, common tenrec, greater hedgehog tenrec, and red-fronted brown lemur are also found here. Some of the local reptiles present are: Labor's chameleon, various plated lizards, Henkel's leaf-tailed gecko, big-headed gecko, Madagascar ground boa, giant hog-nosed snake, spear- nosed snake, and capitolo. Overnight at at Kirindy Lodge

Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at at Kirindy Lodge


Day 8: KIRINDY - MORONDAVA

Stop At: Kirindy Forest Morondava Madagascar, 117 BP Tsimahavaobe, Morondava 619 Madagascar
After a guided day walk in Kirindy forest, transfer directly to Morondava with two main stops in baobab Lamoureux and the Avenue of the Baobabs to enjoy the sunset. The Avenue of the Baobabs, or Alley of the Baobabs, is a prominent group of Grandidier's baobabs (Adansonia grandidieri) lining the dirt road between Morondava and Belon'i Tsiribihina in the Menabe region of western Madagascar. Night at Palissandre

Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Night at Palissandre


Day 9: MORONDAVA - ANTSIRABE

Stop At: Antsirabe, Antsirabe, Antananarivo Province
Today you will have a very long drive, so we suggest you lease early as possible (at 7:00 AM). So after breakfast, transfer directly to Antsirabe with some stops on the road for pictures and some breaks if it is necessary. Lunch in Miandrivazo. The landscape is decorated with rice fields, hills, red soil. Arrive in Antsirabe toward the end of the afternoon. Night at Plumeria
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Night at Plumeria

Day 10: ANTSIRABE – RANOMAFANA

Stop At: Ranomafana, Madagascar
In the morning, you will join Ranomafana directly, the village of Ifanadiana, well known for the Ranomafana National Park, and to enjoy the green landscape on the road. Arrival in Ranomafana late in the evening. You will start your stay in this area by a guided night walk. If you like nature and animals, you won't be disappointed: many birds, butterflies, and lemurs live in these forests. You will also find unique plant species that grow only in this park. There are a number of lemur species, including Peyrieras's woolly lemur, Avahi peyrierasi, Daubentonia madagascariensis Crossley's dwarf lemur, Cheirogaleus crossleyi Sibree's dwarf lemur, Cheirogaleus sibreei, Greater bamboo lemur, Prolemur simus Golden bamboo lemur, Hapalemur aureus Ranomafana grey bamboo lemur, Hapalemur griseus ranomafanensis, Red-bellied lemur, Eulemur rubriventer Red- fronted brown lemur, Eulemur rufifrons, Small-toothed sportive lemur, Lepilemur microdon., Southern black and white ruffed lemur, Varecia variegata editorum,Red mouse lemur, Microcebus rufus Milne- Edwards's sifaka Propithecus edwardsi. Night at the Thermal Hotel
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: . Night at the Thermal Hotel


Day 11: RANOMAFANA

Stop At: Ranomafana National Park, Haute Matsiatra, Fianarantsoa 301 Madagascar
In the morning, departure for a visit to the heart of the rainforest of Ranomafana National Park, a typically reserved area belonging to the last forest corridor along the eastern part of the Big Island. Discovery of the wealth of endemic biodiversity of the region, such as rare species and lemurs seriously endangered, many species of rare and endemic plants used by the local population for traditional medicine.Trekking in the forest by following a track longing the forest passing through a beautiful waterfall, meeting the rare species on the way. Back to the hotel for lunch. After the long day of tiring morning or visit of the spa source, nap and rest for the end of the day. Around 17:30, the start of the guided night walk. Night at the Thermal Hotel
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Night at the Thermal Hotel

Day 12: RANOMAFANA - ISALO

Stop At: Isalo National Park, Isalo Madagascar
After breakfast, back to the road RN7 for the South to reach the city of Ranohira to meet Isalo National Park. During the journey, we take one stop at the reserve of Anja, small peasant associative park which shelters in several particular species of orchids and makis catta little wild, these famous lemurs striped white and black! Arrival at Isalo at the end of the day. Night at the Isalo Rock Lodge
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Night at the Isalo Rock Lodge

Day 13: ISALO

Stop At: Isalo National Park, Madagascar
This day will start with a guided visit to Isalo national park, then end in the sunset in the famous Isalo window. A total of 340 faunal species are known to inhabit Isalo National Park, including 82 species of birds, 33 species of reptiles, 15 species of frogs, and 14 species of mammals. Notable examples include the Madagascar ground boa Acrantophis dumerili, the white-lipped bright-eyed frog (Boophis albilabris), and the Malagasy rainbow frog (Scaphiophryne gottlebei). The many species of birds found here include Benson's rock thrush (Monticola sharpei bensoni), the knob-billed duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos), and the Madagascar ibis (Lophotibis cristata). Several different species of lemur are found in the park. There are over 400 species of plants in the park, many of them endemic to the region. They include the Bismarck palm (Bismarckia Nobilis), which recovers well after fires, Catharanthus ovalis which has medicinal uses, the elephant's foot plant (Pachypodium rosulatum) and the aloe Aloe isaloensis named after the mountain massif. Night at the Isalo Rock Lodge
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Night at the Isalo Rock Lodge


Day 14: ISALO - TULEAR - TANA

Stop At: Toliara, Madagascar
You leave Isalo early in the morning to reach Tulear with a stop at the Zombitse National Park. Ninety species of birds are known from the park, including thirty-eight endemic species. The park meets the Birdlife International criteria as an Important Bird Area. One species Appert's tetraka (also known as Appert's greenbul (Xanthomixis apperti) is classified with a conservation status of vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Eight species of lemur are recorded; Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) is an endangered species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, as is the Pale fork-marked lemur (Phaner pallescens).[The towering spiny bushes are home to more than 2000 plants species (many of them local endemic), some spectacular and very old baobabs (there is a giant baobab of 12,5 m diameter) and a complete endemic plants family, the Didieraceae.
After the visit, you will be transferred to Tulear and take a flight back to Tana) After the tour, transfer directly to the airport for flight back to the capital Antananarivo. On arrival, 45mn visit in the Queen's Palace on the top of the hill (Rova Manjakamiadana), followed by a shopping and some souvenirs at the craft market of La Digue. And then, transfer to the airport for the international flight — end of the trip
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.