your day to day trip

D 1. Paris    Departure from Paris on Air Madagascar flight. Night on board.  

D 2. Antananarivo – Antsirabe   Arrival at Ivato airport. Meet your guide and have breakfast in town, and then start driving to the south. We stop at Ambatolampy to discover how to make the local aluminum cooking-pot. Continuing towards Antsirabe.

D 3 & 4. Highlands hiking  The walk is organized by a local association, a partnership with young Malagasy from Antsirabe. We stay in a traditional house equipped with dormitory and a dining room where we eat while we meet locals.

D 4. Antsirabe – Fianarantsoa    We stay on the road number 7 and progress towards the south.
We walk around Ambositra town and lunch in a restaurant.  Go on towards Fianarantsoa. Arrival at the end of the afternoon.

D 5.  East coast train journey  To move gradually to the Indian Ocean the train passes through the big Eastern rainforest with its luxuriant vegetation. At each stops, there are many people, itinerant sellers sell bananas, fritters, grilled chickens. You get to Manakara station at about 5p.m....may be!

D 6. Manakara – Mananjary    We experience local bush taxi from Manakara to Mananjary today! Visit of the town famous for coffee, cinnamon, pepper and clove exportation products.  

D 7 to D 9.  Canal des Pangalanes   3 days of navigation and 2 nights camping in places of dream. Sail along with the current where locals’ life happens. We visit villages and discover different ways of fishing, locals food tasing, old spices plantation and essencial oil distillery visit.

D 10. Mahanoro – Périnet    We follow the road along the sea, via Vatomandry, and join the main one to Tana. We arrive in Périnet Park in the evening. Put you in bungalows near the forest.

D 11.  Périnet – Antananarivo (departure)   Hike into the forest to meet Indri-indri, the biggest lemur. There are also many medicinal plants. Then we head to the capital and transfer to the airport to fly to Paris.

D 12.  Paris    Air Madagascar flight arrival.