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→8 DAYS TREKKINGS FROM MAROANTSETRA -- TO TAMPOLO AMBODIFORAHA MASOALA NATIONAL PARK + CAMPING NOSY MANGABE WAYS BACK BY SPEED BOAT .
8 DAYS TREKKINGS FROM MAROANTSETRA -- TO TAMPOLO AMBODIFORAHA MASOALA NATIONAL PARK + CAMPING NOSY MANGABE WAYS BACK BY SPEED BOAT .
This trekking biging from Maroantsetra to Tampolo is good for exploring Aye-Aye expeditions at Farankaraina private parks overnight and after 3 days trek you will see the bauty of the rainforest of Tampolo , Lohatrozona Ambodiforaha Masoala national parks . The different is less expensive speedboat trip than from the Cap - Masoala starting looks same of much wildlifes and the bauty of forest wildlifes but from the CAP you can visite 2 kind of Marine parks : Masoala village Marine parks and Tampolo Marine parks for someone want realy the snorkling .
DAYS 1 : ANTANANARIVO -- MAROANTSETRA --- FARANKARAINA
After your arrival by flight from MD …. to Maroantsetra airport your guide and taxi-driver are ready to pic-up you at your welcoming to airport . Take all pack get to taxi drive to harbord of boat to town Maroantsetra 15 – 25 mn . Start sodenly take a trips on fairy boat from harbord Maroantsetra 1h30mn in canoe following River up to Andranofotsy communauty after it , walks again 2km arrive to Farankaraina private Park instal following lunchtimes afternoons do hikes looking AYE-AYE Trees for evenning nightwalks you can see also the creasted Ibis bird , white fronted brown lemur , Bamboo lemur, having small rest following dinner at night do nightwalks looking the nocturnal AYE-AYE , Greater-dwarf lemur , seeing roostings birds sleeping in Bungalows at FARANKARAINA private Park .
DAY 2 : FARANKARAINA---IHARAKA
After breakfast all packing staff ready the trekking start again on the ways seeing Cameleons , several birds species and villages PIC-NIC on the ways walking 7h/days along the coastlines the Masindrano Bay pictures are well done with landscaps evenning following dinner at IHARAKA SLEEPING in TENTS .
DAY 3 : IHARAKA -- NANDRAHANANA
after breakfast the ways is slops few rise sometimes pass severals beaches and many landscaps for pictures and the fishermans and fields plantage and some openning areas of Tavy PIC-NIC on the ways with ALL PORTERS carring your bags and foods evenning animations of guide and porters followings dinner sleeping in TENTS .
DAY 4 : NANDRAHANANA --- TAMPOLO , AMBODIFORAHA REAL MASOALA NATIONAL PARKS AND LODGE :
after breakfast re-start the trekking through the communities Ambanizana behind of it you will see more wildlife because real limited of Masoala national parks and you are in the parks , you can see lemurs , birds , Cameleons , fishermans camping and seeing jumping Dolphin from the beaches PIC-NIC on the ways and seeing the communities Ambanizana the bigest village near the Masoala Park and of the days you will comming at the lodge where the several lodges exist on Masoala national parks .
DAY 5 : AT THE LODGE -- TOUR AT VIRGIN RAINFOREST: 5 – 7hours
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DAY 6 : IN LODGE --- VISITING COSTAL FOREST WITHING SNORKLING AT MARINE PARKS TAMPOLO
. After breakfast from our lodge take walks to littoral forest around the Tampolo if you botanist about palms there , you are welcome to home of palms in Masoala : Satranala decusilvae , Dypsis carlsmithii , Ravenia sembrensis , Lemurophenix halleuxii , also before we get back to shoreline have some territories of birds : Helmet vanga , Serpent Eagle . Take a snorkling at Marine parks around Tampolo following lunch on the beaches afternoons we can do more snorkling because at snorkling seeing differents parrot fishes , nice coral-reefs in a different forms , Angel fishes in colore diffeents too , sea tortels most of our clients seeing it with us when we do the snokling , also unforgettable of blue water withing landscap perfect . Evening back to lodge following dinner .FULL BOARD
Transfert back to Nosy Mangabe national parks by speed boat 1h20mn - 1h45mn depending sea conditions arrive to Nosy Mangabe national parks build up a tents for camping overnight . After sodenly doing hike before lunch times 1h - 2h30mn looking for Black and white ruffed lemur , stump-tailed cameleons ( Brookesia perierasii ) the 3rd smallest cameleons in the world , very easy to take a picture white fronted brown lemur at the camp site following lunch . Afternoons around 15h00mn takes another easy hikes flated paths looking for leaf tailed gecko , Mantella frogs , Mantidactulis frogs and some snackes Boa ( Sanzinia madagascariensis , Acrantophis madagascariensis sns .... ) Trees Boa , Ground Boas sns.... overnight on Nosy Mangabe and can see at crepuscular the Brown mouse lemur's and hearing noisy frogs around the camping areas but not aload to do night walks in the heart of the parks .
DAY 8 : TRANSFERT BACK FROM NOSY MANGABE – TOWN MAROANTSETR – ANTANANARIVO durations 25mn – 40mn
After breackfast back to Maroantsetra looking for Tomato frogs ( Discophis antongilii ) because only in this main litle town you can find in the world and visiting the market areas . The program is flexible depend on us we can modifies it up to you my Dear. Thanks for your visit by Masoala Nature Guide TEAM .