Madagascar Safari Tour Guide - Southwest of Madagascar
This tour is amongst the best combined tours for the southwest of Madagscar. The highlights are: Tsingy de Bemaraha - Baobab - Isalo National Park - Ranomafana - Anakao Beach.
Tour description
Day 1: Your home country - Madagascar - Antsirabe
You are most welcome, I will meet you after your arrival at Ivato International Airport Madagascar, after your formality and money changing, in Antananarivo. You will be transfered to Antsirabe. Hotel overnight at Green Park Antsirabe. Breakfast included.
Day 2: Antsirabe - Ranomafana
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning drive to Ranomafana. Optional quick stop at Ambositra, Madagascar’s handicrafts capital. Late afternoon arrival in Ranomafana. Opening night walk in the park with your English-speaking naturalist guide in search of endemic chameleons, frogs, insects and mouse lemurs and luckily dwarf lemurs. Overnight at Centrest Hotel. Breakfast included.
Day 3: Ranomafana National Park
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning visit of Ranomafana National Park teeming with endemics, such as the critically endangered Greater bamboo lemur, and other species namely Golden Bamboo lemur, Milne-Edwards's sifaka and endemic chameleons, frogs, birds and plant species. Another night walk to search for more endemics. Overnight at Centrest Hotel. Breakfast included.
Day 4: Ranomafana - Anja Reserve - Ranohira
Breakfast at the hotel. Early morning departure to Ambalavao, south of Fianarantsoa. Visit to Anja Park, a community-run nature reserve and home of hundreds Ring-tailed lemurs of different groups, for a unique wildlife photo opportunity with your local naturalist guide and spotters. Chameleons like Oustalet’s chameleon (Malagasy giant chameleon), etc. Drive on to Ranohira, the gateway to Isalo National Park. Overnight at Isalo Ranch. Breakfast included.
Day 5: Isalo National Park
Early breakfast and morning visit of the famous La Piscine Naturelle and Namaza canyon to discover interesting landscape characterised by amazing rock formations and to learn about the Bara tribe’s culture. Ring-tailed lemurs and endemic birds may be encountered along the way. Plan a picnic lunch in the park at the blue or black pool. Then continue the hike and early afternoon drive back to the hotel.
Overnight at Isalo Ranch. Breakfast Included.
