Arrive in Antananarivo. Meet & assist at the airport then transfer to Colbert Hotel. Overnight at the hotel.
Breakfast. Drive to Antsirabe (170km/ 4hrs) with visit of Aluminum’s foundry in Ambatolampy. Afternoon city tour. Lunch, dinner and overnight at Plumeria hotel or Couleur Café hotel.
The water town, Antsirabe, also known as the Vichy of Madagascar with its thermal sources, its sacred lakes and overhanging mountains. Antsirabe is also very involved in the agricultural field as well as with regards handicraft activities. Nature lovers may, on their way, stop at the insect’s sanctuary or just enjoy a pleasant trip in rickshaw.
Breakfast. Drive to Ranomafana (240 km/10hrs) with visit on the way to the wood-carving handcraft market in Ambositra and lunch at Artisan restaurant. Dinner and overnight at Thermal hotel.
The Park shelters more than about ten species of lemurs such as: Simpona d’ Edwards (Propithecus edwardsi), gilded (bronzed) Hapalémur (H.griseus), grey (H. aureus) … more than hundred sorts of birds, the 75 % of the botanical species of the National park are not seen nowhere else besides.
This heritage so rich in biodiversity will interest a lot of nature lovers, photographers, researchers and eco-tourists.
Breakfast. Morning visit to Ranomafana National Park. Lunch at the hotel. Afternoon drive to Fianarantsoa (68 km/1h30). Dinner and overnight at Zomatel/Tsaraguest.
Breakfast. Drive to Ranohira with visit on the way to Antemoro paper workshop and to Anja Park in Ambalavao. Lunch at Betsileo Country lodge. Dinner and overnight at Relais de la Reine/Jardin du Roy.
It is advised to stop at Ambalavao to discover the Antemoro paper factory. This paper of Arabic origin is unique and is made of shrub barks called Avoha chewed up with water and left in the sun to dry up. The Antemoro paper has become the raw material used in the making of greeting cards, gift wrappings, paintings and all sorts of decorative items.
Breakfast. Full day visit to Isalo National Park with picnic lunch.
Dinner and overnight at Relais de la Reine Hote/Jardin du Roy
After you have travelled across the deserted ‘Plateaux de Horombe’, you will find in Isalo an oasis hidden in wonderfully coloured beds of sandstone. It is believed that Isalo is the living proof of continental drifts giving birth to cliffs and canyons of unique majesty with rare and endemic fauna and flora such as the Pachypodium, the Kalanchoe or the Aloe isaloensis. Isalo is also these waterfalls that, in certain places, form natural swimming pools so cool and so crystal-clear that it is hard to resist diving into after early morning walks. Because of its unique beauty and tourist appeal, Isalo National Park is among the most visited parks of Madagascar.
Breakfast. Drive to Ifaty (243 km/ 5hrs) then visit to Mr Petignat’s arboretum and lunch at the restaurant. Visit to Reniala reserve.
Dinner and overnight at Dunes d’Ifaty.
Reniala is a private reserve located near the sea, in the forest of Baobabs of the South-West of Madagascar at the exit of the village of Mangily Ifaty to 27 km of Tuléar. The Reserve covers an area of 60 hectares. This zone presents an exceptional floristic and faunistic richness with more than 1000 plant species endemic to xerophytic adaptations (dry climate) remarkable, many endemic birds including Uratelornis and Monias, reptiles: Turtles: Astrochelys, Pyxis, lizards, snakes, microcebes
Breakfast. Drive to Toliara (25km/45mn). Leave Toliara by TZ flight. Arrive in Antananarivo then transfer to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel.
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport.