We will offer this tour in 2025 in an internationally mixed group eight times on the dates below (there can also be German-speaking participants, if there is a group of four or more Pax per date of which min. two are English-speaking participants, we will provide a German – and an English-speaking guide):
Face to face with the Malagasy population and the lemurs without beach
We will offer this tour in 2025 in an internationally mixed group eight times on the dates below (there can also be German-speaking participants, if there is a group of four or more Pax per date of which min. two are English-speaking participants, we will provide a German – and an English-speaking guide):
We’ll offer this tour in 2025 at the following 8 dates, in an internationally mixed group. There can also be german speaking clients in the group. If there’d be four or more English speaking persons in the group, we’ll normally add a supplementary English-speaking guide:
April 10. to 23. (flight arrival latest. April 11. at 05.00, departure earliest April 22. from 20.00)
May 1. to 14. (arrival of the flight latest May 2. at 05:00, departure at the earliest May 13. from 20:00)
May 22. to June 4. (flight arrival latest May 23. at 05:00, departure earliest June 3 from 20:00)
July 3. to 16. (flight arrival latest July 4. at 05:00, departure earliest July 15. from 20:00)
July 31. to Aug. 13. (flight arr. latest Aug. 1. at 05.00, departure earliest Aug. 12. from 20.00)
Aug. 28. to Sept. 10. (flight arr. latest Aug. 29. at 05:00, departure earliest Sept. 9. from 20:00)
Oct. 16. to 29. (flight arr. latest Oct. 17. at 05.00, departure earliest Oct 28. from 20.00)
Nov. 13. to 26. (flight arr. late. Nov. 14. at 05.00, departure earliest Nov. 25. from 20.00)
Other dates upon request.
Subject to modifications of the flights.
Depending on the chosen airline, some additional nights in Tana will be necessary; you’ll find the tariff per supplementary night here below.
Madagascar 1st day Thursday:
ANTANANARIVO
Depending on the arrival of the flight, reception at Antananarivo International Airport (the short noun of Antananarivo is Tana) Ivato and transfer to the hotel BELVEDERE or similar in the city center, overnight stay.
IMPORTANT: Do not hand over your luggage after the last passport control. The driver will be waiting for you in the nearby exit area (outside) with a name sign.
Madagascar 2nd day Friday:
ANTANANARIVO – AMPEFY (around 120 km, around 3.5 hours of driving time with several stops)
Breakfast at around 07:30, then a slow drive with plenty of photo opportunities on National Road 1 towards the “Wild West”. After 21 km, stop to visit the lemurs park, where 7 species of lemur hop around freely on 5 hectares. Then, continue to Ampefy. Overnight stay with breakfast at Hotel KINTANA FLEURON or similar.
Madagascar 3rd day Saturday:
AMPEFY – FARATSIHO – ANTSIRABE (155 km about 5 hours)
Early in the morning to the waterfall or the cold water geysers at Analavory, if this was not possible the day before. Then drive through one of the coldest regions of Madagascar on a newly renovated road through mountainous field via Soavinandriana to Faratsiho, then on through many coniferous forests to Sambaina, where the road joins national road no. 7. A lot of rice is also grown in this area, partly in artfully laid out terraced fields on the slopes. Then drive to Antsirabe (37 km). Overnight stay at Hotel FLOWER PALACE or similar.
Madagascar 4th day Sunday:
ANTSIRABE – AMBOSITRA – AMBALAKELY (230 km, about. 6 hours’ drive on national road no. 7)
City tour in Antsirabe, an economic metropolis that is also known as the “city of water” due to its hot water springs and crater lakes. In Antsirabe there are also many bicycle rickshaws, then drive through the scenic, winding road to the woodcarving town of Ambositra and on until about 10 km before Fianarantsoa. Overnight stay at the Hotel AMBALAKELY.
Madagascar 5th day Monday:
AMBALAKELY – RANOMAFANA (75 km about 02 hours)
Hike of around 2 – 4 hours directly from the hotel to a typical village of the Betsileo ethnic group, the village of Antsolaitra, with the typical architecture of their houses. Among other things, you will see a “valabe” (local stable), zebus and rice fields. Then visit the royal house of Prince RAMAHARO. Visit to small workshops for blacksmithing, weaving, tyre recycling and a brickworks where bricks are formed by hand from clay and then fired. You also get a good insight into everyday life in the villages (working in the rice fields, washing clothes, making coal cookers). There is also a viewpoint with a panoramic view. Lunch with the locals, then walk back to Hotel Ambalakely and drive to Ranomafana. The village even has its own thermal swimming pool thanks to the hot springs. Overnight stay with breakfast at the Chez Gaspard lodge. Early evening walk outside the village along the main road. In the light of our flashlights, we look for lively mouse lemurs, sleeping chameleons, croaking frogs etc. with an experienced local guide. Overnight stay at Hotel CHEZ GASPARD.
Madagascar 6th day Tuesday:
RANOMAFANA – AMBOSITRA (215 km about 5 hours)
In the morning we visit the Ranomafana Rainforest National Park, which covers around 41,000 hectares on the Namorona River, with its fauna and flora, including the golden bamboo lemurs discovered by the German Bernhard Meier in 1986. We also look for red-bellied and red-fronted lemurs, sifakas etc. This hike takes about three to four hours and is quite strenuous, as it goes over hill and dale, uphill and downhill. It requires stamina, fitness and surefootedness. In the early afternoon, drive the short distance (25 km) back to national road no. 7, then head north on the same road to Ambositra. The Betsileo are real landscape architects. They use the land up to high altitudes for rice cultivation. Overnight stay in Ambositra at L’ARTISAN HOTEL.
Madagascar 7th day Wednesday:
AMBOSITRA – ANTSIRABE – ANTANANARIVO (270 km about 7 hours)
After breakfast, visit a Zafimaniry carving studio. After a stroll through the village, continue north on a winding road through the highlands via Antsirabe and Ambatolampy to Antananarivo. Overnight stay at Hotel BELVEDERE.
Madagascar 8th day Thursday:
ANTANANARIVO – ANDASIBE (142 km about 5 hours)
142 km drive on National Road 2 to the most famous national park in Andasibe (Analamazaotra – Mantadia). Halfway we visit a private reptile park to get a first insight into the diversity of the small animal world, which is always good for new discoveries and surprises. In the morning, we buy everything we need for an outdoor picnic lunch at a supermarket in Tana. As dusk falls, we walk with an experienced local guide for about an hour with flashlights along the road (flat throughout) in search of nocturnal, wide-awake lemurs (mostly Goodman’s mouse lemurs, the larger woolly lemurs or fat-tailed lemurs, weighing no more than 50 grams), sleeping chameleons and lively tree frogs. Dinner possible at Marie’s Guesthouse. Overnight stay with breakfast at FEON’NY ALA LODGE
Madagascar 9th day Friday:
ANDASIBE – MANAMBATO – ANKANIN’NY NOFY (Nest of Dreams), (125 km of fairly decent road and then another 7 km of dirt road (about 5 hours in total, and then one and a half hours by motorboat on the canal)
After breakfast, drive on the RN 2 to Brickaville, shortly after the large railroad bridge we turn off – then by four-wheel drive vehicle – onto the dirt road to Manambato on Lake Rasoabe. A motorboat picks us up there and takes us to the Hotel Palmarium with adjoining lemur park, directly on the Pangalanes Canal and its extension “Palmarium Beach” on Lake Ampitabe. First night with breakfast at Hotel PALMARIUM or PALMARIUM BEACH (only power supply via generator, switches off about 23.00 to 6.00).
Madagascar 10th day Saturday:
ANKANIN’NY NOFY (Nest of Dreams)
In the morning, several hours’ hike through the park with its various species of lemurs, which will eye us with curiosity. Relatively close contact is possible. An evening excursion by boat to an island to see the rare nocturnal lemur Aye-Aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), also known as the fingered lemur, at close range. Eight of these “beasts” are native to the island, where they love to crack coconuts wedged between tree trunks and spoon them up with their long middle finger. If the weather is good the evening before, we can perhaps make the excursion on the first day, we are flexible. Another overnight stay with breakfast at the the same hotel.
Madagascar 11th day Sunday:
AKANIN’NY NOFY – MANAMBATO – ANDASIBE (about 1,5 hours by boat on the Pangalanes Canal, then about 5 hours about 125 km)
After breakfast, transfer by boat on the Pangalanes Canal to Manambato and return by car to Andasibe. Overnight stay at Hotel FEON’NY ALA or similar.
Madagascar 12th day Monday:
ANDASIBE – ANTANANARIVO (150 km approx. 5 hours)
The approximately three-hour morning hike (at the beginning uphill, then relatively flat) starts at around 07:30 a.m. and again takes us through the evergreen secondary forest of Analamazaotra National Park on the “Indri 2” trail, accompanied by a local guide. Here, with a bit of luck, we may see two of the 63 families of the largest lemur species (Indri) living in the area, which is known for its distinctive calls, as well as other native species of semi-monkeys (diademed sifakas, brown lemurs, bamboo lemurs, etc.). Ornithologists will get their money’s worth, as will reptile lovers, provided it is not too cold. Return to Antananarivo immediately afterwards and spend the night in the Hotel LE CHAT’O or similar, near the airport.
Madagascar 13th day Tuesday:
ANTANANARIVO
Visit to the historical sites of Ambohimanga (UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001). It is the sacred city of the Merina and was once the residence of the most powerful of all Merina princes, King Andrianampoinimerina. Until it was conquered and finally subjugated by the French in 1896, no foreigners were allowed to enter. It had seven city gates, the mightiest of which still serves as the entrance to the town today. Next to the gate stands a huge, smoothly polished and almost circular stone slab. In earlier times, it was rolled in front of the entrance gate every evening. From the 1468 meter high “Blue Hill” – as Ambohimanga is called in translation – you have a beautiful view of Tana and the surrounding area. Then, if flying with AF, use of a room for the day, where you can relax, shower and change and possibly have dinner. Then, depending on the departure time, transfer to the airport for the return flight with Air France. Or if flying with ET or another airline, then an overnight stay at hotel CHAT‘O or similar.
Madagascar 14th day Saturday:
ANTANANARIVO – HOME
Take off at about 01.25 AM or later, or, depending on the airline, transfer to the airport for your flight back home
Tariffs per person 2025
From 02 People:
In DOUBLE ROOM: 1820 Euro/person
Single supplement: 390 Euro
The hotels mentioned above are intended, but similar hotels can also be used.
Supplementary night in Antananarivo at Belvedere hotel, if necessary due to flight arrival:
Tariff per person incl. tourist levy and breakfast:
In DBL room: 36 €
In SGL room: 66 €
- Transfer airport-hotel-airport
- Accommodation in the above-mentioned or similar mid-range hotels on a bed and breakfast basis
- Lunch with the locals on day 5
- Entrance fees to the national parks and reserves incl. local park guide (Ranomafana, Andasibe, Palmarium)
- Visits mentioned in the program.
- Transportation by car, minibus or bus with driver and fuel
- Boat trip in the hotel’s own boat (there may also be other passengers on the boat) Manambato – Akanin’ny Nofy – Manambato
- Accompaniment of the round trip by a German/English-speaking guide, except on day 13 and 14, on day 13 local guide for the visit of Ambohimanga
- Day room or overnight at Hotel Chat’o on day 13
- Aye Aye tour in Akanin’ny Nofy
- One bottle of drinking water per person per day
- VAT and tourist levys
- The flight ticket for the international flight and its taxes
- Visa costs (10 Euro for 15 days, 35 Euro for stays up to max. 30 days)
- Other meals and drinks
- Personal travel, luggage, accident, theft and cancellation insurance.
Changes in the program reserved.
The above mentioned hotels are planned for the tour, but this is subject to modification.
Tariffs are subject to changes, especially if heavy fluctuation in exchange rate and/or fuel prices. All tours and tariffs are subject to changes in case of cancellations or overbooking of flights or trains, changes in timetable, bad weather and road conditions, strike, political troubles, problems with fuel supply, tribal and other war, closing of sites, natural disasters such as earthquakes, cyclones, floods and other acts of God. Please also see our general conditions.
The above mentioned hotels are planned for the tour, but this is subject to modification.
Tariffs are subject to changes, especially if heavy fluctuation in exchange rate and/or fuel prices. All tours and tariffs are subject to changes in case of cancellations or overbooking of flights or trains, changes in timetable, bad weather and road conditions, strike, political troubles, problems with fuel supply, tribal and other war, closing of sites, natural disasters such as earthquakes, cyclones, floods and other acts of God. Please also see our general conditions.