INCLUSIONS
- All transfers to and from airport
- Accommodation based on bed and breakfast at midclass hotels
- Entrance tickets in parks and reserves (Ranomafana,, Anja, Isalo)
- Service of local guides in parks and reserves
- car rental from Antananarivo to Ifaty with a driver, shuttle by hotel car back to Tulear apt
- Driver’s indemnities and fuel
- visit of the historical site of Ambohimanga and of the handcrafts market
- tourist levy and VAT
EXCLUSIONS
- International flights and their taxes
- Domestic flight with airport taxes from Tuléar to Antananarivo 250 Euro per person without reduction, if flying long haul with MD, tariff will be reduced..
- Visa fee (35 € for a stay up to 30 days)
- other meals and drinks
- water sports, diving and visit of the Reniala reserve or other excursions in Ifaty
- Personal expenditures
- Personal insurance for eventualities like accidents, theft or damage to luggage, cancellation etc
Accommodation
HOTEL :3*
Sightseeing
AMBER MOUNTAIN
- Montagne d’Ambre Nationalpark.
- waterfalls.
ANTSIRABE
- Town of Water.
RANOMAFANA
- Malagasy Puma
FIANARANTSOA
Betsileo tribe.
RANOHIRA
- Anja park.
- Antemoro Paper Factory.
Meals
09 Breakfast
Day 1ANTANANARIVO AIRPORT
Meeting at Ivato international airport and transfer to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel
Day 2ANTANANARIVO – ANTSIRABE (169 km about 4 h drive)
After breakfast. Drive to the Lemurs’ park which is located 25 km of the capital city for a visit, 9 species of lemurs are jumping around freely. After the visit drive to Antsirabe through a landscape composed mainly of mountains and rice fields . Tour of the “Town of Water”: so called because of its numerous thermal springs and the existence of two crater lakes. Visit of a workshop where they make miniatures from recycled materials. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 3ANTSIRABE – RANOMAFANA (240 km about 5,5 h drive)
After breakfast, drive to Ranomafana. – Stop in Ambositra for the visit of some Zafimaniry handicrafts centres: woodcarving. Continuation to Ranomafana. Check in at the hotel. Night walk along the road to try to see the nocturnal species of lemurs ( mouse lemurs ) and perhaps fossa ( the Malagasy “Puma” ). Back to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 4RANOMAFANA – FIANARANTSOA (85 km about 1,5 h drive)
After breakfast, visit of the some 40’000 hectares big Nationalpark with its lemurs, chameleons, spiders, frogs, varieties of orchids and medicinal plants. Only in 1986 was discovered the golden Bamboo lemurs here, and there are more than 100 species of birds. This walk takes around 3 to 4 hours, and goes mostly on trails, sometimes a bit steep up and down, and sometimes you’ll go off the paths and into the forest to spot the lemurs, it’s a bit exhausting and requires endurance and agility. After lunch, off to Fianarantsoa – the capital of the Betsileo tribe. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 5FIANARANTSOA – RANOHIRA (295 km about 5,5 h drive)
Early departure to Ranohira. Stop in Ambalavao – the commercial centre of the southern Betsileo region, renowned for its folks, arts and crafts – to visit the “Antemoro Paper” factory (visit not possible on Sundays). This paper is a delicate, handmade, flower-decorated paper made of the fibres of the tree called “Avoha”. Another stop 12km south of Ambalavao to visit the Anja park, where you can see on a walk of around two hours on a little bumpy tracks, but not steep, some families of ring-tailed Katta lemurs in their natural surroundings. Continuation to Ranohira. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 6RANOHIRA
Morning trek inside the Isalo National Park to discover on a walk of around three to five hours on sometimes bumpy tracks, at some parts a bit steep, the massif of Isalo, its ruin like sandstones, canyons, endemic fauna and flora (Lemurs and endemic plants such as Pachypodium , aloes,..) and to swim in its natural pool. Back to the hotel and overnight.
Day 7RANOHIRA – TULEAR – IFATY (240 Km about 4 hour-drive + 27 Km about 1 hour-drive)
After breakfast, off to Tuléar along a straight road. The landscape is composed of dry forests, baobabs and some proudly decorated Mahafaly tombs. Arrival at Tuléar visit of the Arboretum with many species of endemic plants. Transfer to Ifaty –a seaside resort protected by a coral reef, on good road and through spiny bush. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 8IFATY
Day free for leisure at the beach, or a walk to the nearby fishermen village, or an optional visit of the Reniala reserve with its Baobab Trees, birds etc.. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 9IFATY – TULEAR – ANTANANARIVO (27 Km about 1,5 hour-drive)
Relax on the beach then transfer to the airport and flight to the capital city of Madagascar. Meeting at the airport, Transfer to the hotel and overnight.
Day 10ANTANANARIVO – DEPARTURE
Then transfer to the airport for the flight .