Trekking from Maroantsetra to Cap Est with Masoala Nature Guide
Trekking from Maroantsetra to Cap Est with the final destination Antalaha.
Tour description
Day 1: Maroantsetra - Fizono
(8-hour walk, partly with canoe)
After breakfast at your hotel in Maroantsetra we make a canoe trip for 1 hour 20 minutes up the river to Andranofotsy, where we begin our trekking through the private Farankaraina Tropical Park. Thereafter we continue to several villages, where locals live from farming vanilla, cloves, pepper and rice. After 1/2 hours of walk we stop for lunch at Mahalevona and enjoy a pic-nic our porters carried from Maroantsetra. In the afternoon we walk until Fizono, the village where we stop for our first night.
Day 2: Fizono - Ampokafo
(8-hour walk, including searching for Red ruffed lemurs at the forest coridores of Ambatolaidama, part of Masoala National Park)
After an early morning breackfast we leave the little bungalows owned by the village and continue the trek by crossing several streams and climbing some steep, muddy hills. After 3 hours we come to Ambatolaidama at the border of Masoala National Park. The forest is ideal to see Red ruffed lemurs and there is also a park rangers base where they take care of a tree-nursery. We take a lunch pic-nic and wait for the sounds of the Red ruffed lemurs. After lunch we go and look for them in the forest. In the afternoon we continue the trek until the village of Ampokafo where we will camp for overnight. The porters will help us in anything they know, from setting up our tents to cooking our meals at night.
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