Let yourself go on a unique adventure, where you will get to enter the intricate wilderness of the Western Madagascar, full of lemurs, turtles, crocodiles and chameleons. This circuit we offer is the best opportunity to admire two amazing sites listed as UNESCO World Heritage.

• Length : 7 days et 6 nights

• Season: From May to November 

• Physical difficulty: moderate

Adventure and Discovery Trip 

3 Stars hotels and half board

Full pension when on camping 

2 Peoples required (up to 16 persons)

MANDATORY DOCUMENTS:

Passport (children included) valid at least 6 months after returning to home country. Out of European Union, consult your consulate

HEALTH

We strongly recommend the classic vaccines for Madagascar. 

We come welcome you directly at the international airport of Ivato, and head straight south. Throughout the plains of the highlands, you’ll discover the first amazing scenery of your trip:  the rural villages surrounded by ricefields and the population of farmers whose lifestyle has never changed since the dawn of time

Free lunch before Antsirabe, the thermal city constructed and developed by norvegian missionaries. This city is ranked first in agriculture and the second in industry in the whole country. The beautiful middle class houses downtown are witnesses of this frivolous era. 

Diner and night at the hotel

Discovery of the famous lakes of Andraikiba and Tritriva. Then, we go westward. The fertile lands of Vakinankaratra are soon to be replaced by the bareness of the dry Bongolava

We’ll have lunch in a local hoteli (gargotte) for a good discovery of the inevitable Malagasy rice meal.

Miandrivazo is a city on the banks of Mahajilo, a tributary of the Tsiribihina, this is where we will start our journey on water. This river is well known for its naturally heated flows.

Night and diner at the hotel

Boarding on the barge, we start a ride that will make the whole stern western Madagascar pass before our eyes. As many breaks as we need to walk around in the luxurious wilderness and discover the local bird species like the whistling ducks, aigrettes, heron and chameleons. A local lunch break, with only fresh food, fish, zebu, chicken and vegetables. Back to navigation till sunset, we camp on the sandy riverside. Bivouac

Crossing of the gorges of Bemahara, break near a beautiful waterfall with a natural pool. You’ll get to swim and lunch on site. You’ll get to see lemurs and turtles. 

Lunch and night camping.

We leave at dawn to visit the villages settled on the shores. There are many bats hooked on the cliffs and if you are lucky you can even sneak a peek of some crocodiles. In the middle of the afternoon, we leave the river to head for the park of the Tsingy of Bemaraha, a road deserving a Camel Trophy

Night at the hotel.

Ideally, we leave early for the Great Tsingy, the road is 15km long, about an hour with a 4x4.There are two circuits you can choose from,

- Le circuit RANOTSARA: 3 hours inside the great Tsingy. Lunch on the run. 

- Le circuit ANDAMOZAVAKA: About 4 hours inside the Great Tsingy. We recommend this circuit but its intensity requires a good shape.

For both of these options, you’ll need gear, and a forehead lamp that we will provide. In the core of the Tsingy of Bemahaea, you’ll find two breath taking landscape sites before reaching the cathedral.

The site was totally equipped respecting the environnement, for example with an amazing rope bridge suspended high above the Tsingys, tracks that lead to caverns, of stalagmites and stalactites.

Lemurs are likely to show up, as for the whole endemic fauna here.

Diner and night at the hotel

We head back to Morondava, and take a lunch break at the beautiful city of Belo sur Tsiribihina.

On the trip back, you’ll discover the Lovers Baoba and the Sacred Baobab which the malagasy come honor from every side of Madagascar. There, people leave in the crevices conches, bottles, or red and black ribbons for their ancestors’ souls

As the afternoon ends, we’ll reach the famous Baobabs alley, under a perfect sunset. This proper boulevard of Andansonia Grandidieri, protected as a “Natural Monument” during the first festival Jama in july 2007, remains the masterpiece of our journey. 

Night and diner at the hotel