Itinerary

1. Day 1: Airport of Ivato & Transfer to the hotel

   • Meet and greet with your Madagascar tour guide at the international airport.

   • Transfer to the hotel in the centre of Antananarivo city.                                                

   Overnight at the hotel.

2. Day 2: Antananarivo to Morondava

   • Early in the morning, after breakfast, leave the capital of Madagascar, and we gonna take the national road number 7, which leads us to Antsirabe where we'll take lunch.

   • But before reaching the city, along the way, you can see the beautiful landscapes of the highlands of Madagascar with its green rice fields.

   • After lunch, keep on the national road number 34, which allows you to discover the middle west and the west coast of Madagascar, have a nice view of the variety of the landscapes in the car.

   • In the afternoon, the national road number 35 receives us in Malaimbandy and lead us to the Morondava area.

   • At the beginning of the evening, we will arrive there. Settle down at the hotel, relax, and have dinner.

   Overnight.

3. Day 3: Morondava Baobabs to Kirindy Forest

   • Always early in the morning, after breakfast, start the real discovery of the western part of Madagascar by taking the track of Baobabs, dry forest and savanna.

   • Stop in Avenue of Baobabs for your first touch, observation, pictures.

   • Make a stop as well in sacred baobab before arriving in Kirindy forest.

   • When in Kirindy, leave your bags at the lodge, and we will explore directly the beauty of this forest of Menabe to see some endemic fauna like lemurs (red-fronted lemurs, Verreaux sifaka), birds, chameleons, mongoose, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, some endemic and medicinal plants.

   • Go back to the lodge, restaurant to take lunch and relax in the nature lodge.

   • At the end of the afternoon, enter the forest for the nocturnal visit, which offers us to see some nocturnal animals such us mouse lemur, jumping rat, fosa, but this one will be found in October December during de-mating (coupling) time, chameleons.

   • After the visit, return to the lodge, restaurant for dinner. 

   Overnight.

4. Day 4: Kirindy Forest to Bekopaka

   • Early after breakfast, continue the track of baobabs and the dry forest of the west coast.

   • On the track, you can see some examples of Malagasy traditional tombs (antandroy ethnics) and before reaching the village of Belo/ Tsiribihina, the cradle of the sakalava of Menabe Kingdom. 

   • Cross the Tsiribihina river by the ferry boat for a maximum of 45 mins, and we gonna take lunch in this village (restaurant).

   • Besides, when we finish lunch, the track of the Bekopaka will wait for us and continue in the north direction.

   • Once again, cross a river called Manambolo by ferry boat before arriving directly in the village of Bekopaka.

   • Relax at the hotel, dinner.

   Overnight.

5. Day 5: Tsingy of Bemaraha

   • Visit the big Tsingy in the morning.

   • After breakfast, drive to the big Tsingy for 15km, and it lasts 1h.

   • Spend 4h of hiking there to see the 30meters high cracks, beautiful forest, canyons with lemurs (red-fronted lemurs, decken sifaka, birds, chameleons, butterflies, mongoose, medicine and endemic plants, caves, the cathedral of rocks, the view on the highest roof of the big Tsingy.

   • Return to the hotel for lunch and relax before keeping on small Tsingy in the afternoon.          

   • During the afternoon, visit the small Tsingy of Andadoany near the village for 2h, and we will see the labyrinth of limestone, the 2 points on the limestone pinnacle formation, decken sifaka, red-fronted lemurs, spider, birds, chameleons, some plants like pachypodium of Madagascar.

   • Going back to the hotel, relax, dinner.

   Overnight.

6. Day 6: Bekopaka to Morondava

   • Early in the morning, after breakfast, leave Bekopaka, and now the direction will be Morondava, but we will have to visit the baobabs in love, a great landscape near it with its artificial lake with baobabs. Birds sometimes we can see zebus.

   • And indeed, the sunset in the avenue of Baobabs will wait for us. This will be the last time in the avenue so you can profit so much of it, enjoy the beauty, natural colour, light of the place, you may also meet some locals children.

   • After the sunset, drive slowly to Morondava city.

   • Settle down at the hotel, relaxing and fun time with the music on the beach of Mozambique channel. 

   • After dinner, stay overnight.