your day to day trip
D 1. Paris Departure from Paris on Air Madagascar flight. Night on board.
D 2. Antananarivo Meet your guide at the airport hall. Drive to the hotel. We go walking towards the upper town; we discover and visit the old town around Queen’s Palace with an historian guide.
D 3. Antananarivo – Antsirabe Start driving to the south. We stop at Ambatolampy to discover how to make the local aluminum cooking-pot. Continuing towards Antsirabe.
D 4 & 5. 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 6. 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 at Ambalavao.
D 7. Anja Reserve and Andringitra area Groups of lemurs live in a nice forest at the bottom of a huge granite rock blocks. This Reserve is run directly villagers; all profit goes to improve locals’ life conditions in the surrounding. Drive on to Tsaranoro.
D 8. D . Tsaranoro hiking Just so beautiful… Walk to the forest at the bottom of the rock cliff to meet catta lemurs. Huge granitic domes make an amazing sight to the narrow valley of these mountain rocks, during sunrise and sunset in particular.
D 9. Tsaranoro – Ranohira It is the road to the South, huge space world. From one mountain to another, we reach Isalo National Park massif and it is the end of the stage after a long drive, the sunset must be wonderful.
D 10 & 11. Isalo National Park We have two days to discover one of the best sites in Madagascar. We go and meet lemurs by the Canyons’ dry forest. The next day we head to the Piscine Naturelle (natural swimming pool) through the sandstone massif.
D 12. Ranohira – Tuléar – Ifaty Today we join the sea. On the way to Tuléar we make some stops to see Mahafaly tribe typical tombs, which are painted and decorated, also amazing carvings are erected on them. Walk around the market and have lunch in town before heading north to ifaty.
D 13. Ifaty lagoon stay Leisure day on the beach. Several activities are possible from the hotel. Sea options are: diving, snorkelling, outing with local fishers Vezo on their small fishing boat, swimming or just relax on the beach.
D 14. Ifaty – Tuléar – Antananarivo (departure) After breakfast and a last swimming, transfer to the airport. Fly to Tana and connecting flight to Paris.
D 15. Paris Arrival of Air Madagascar flight.
