South tour with focus on sustainability

Meeting at Ivato international airport and transfer to the hotel.
Overnight at HOTEL BELVEDERE B

(169 Km about 4 hour – drive)

After breakfast. Drive to Antsirabe through a landscape composed mainly of mountains and rice fields. Visit of SPV Felana association and reforestation with picnic lunch (at your expenses) . The association aids the most deprived, their activities cover several fields such as education, agriculture,..
Overnight at Residence Madalief in Antsirabe- This is the biggest project of the Dutch association, which has as its aim to create work for our youngsters of the association of Ambositra and to generate income for the projects of the association. Since then they started several projects in the direct surroundings of the Residence as well.

(240 Km about 5,5 hour-drive)
Breakfast visit of the schools (during school period) and houses that that are supported by the association MADALIEF
Rest of the day visit of Antsirabe city
Back to the eco-social hotel at the end of the day
Overnight at the hotel MADALIEF (B)

(240 Km about 5 hour-drive)
After breakfast, drive to Ranomafana. – Stop in Ambositra for the visit of some Zafimaniry handicrafts centres: woodcarving. Continuation to Ranomafana. Check in at the hotel. Night walk along the road to try to see the nocturnal species of lemurs (mouse lemurs) and perhaps fossa (the Malagasy “Puma”). Back to the hotel. Overnight at CHEZ GASPARD HOTEL (B)-small lodge run by catholic church

(85 Km about 2 hour-drive)
After breakfast, visit of the some 40’000 hectares big Nationalpark with its lemurs, chameleons, spiders, frogs, varieties of orchids and medicinal plants. Only in 1986 was discovered the golden Bamboo lemurs here, and there are more than 100 species of birds. This walk takes around 3 to 4 hours, and goes mostly on trails, sometimes a bit steep up and down, and sometimes you’ll go off the paths and into the forest to spot the lemurs, it’s a bit exhausting and requires endurance and agility. After lunch, off to Fianarantsoa – the capital of the Betsileo tribe.  Overnight at VOZAMA ACCOMMODATION (B) a nice but simple lodge operated by the Vozama project

01 night we pay allows 01 child attending school for 06 months.

After breakfast, Visit of NGO VOZAMA which fights against poverty in many villages of Ambositra and Fianarantsoa especially in the education field.
Transfer 30 km towards Alakamisy Ambohimaha to meet the VOZAMA people and visit its working area.
During the visit, you will meet Betsileo family, school which is sponsored by the NGO (during school period) and other projects such as establishment of water supply system, nursery,… through a beautiful landscape.
Picnic lunch included,
Back to Fianarantsoa at the end of afternoon
Overnight at VOZAMA ACCOMMODATION (B)

(295 Km about 6 hour-drive)
Early departure to Ranohira. Stop in Ambalavao – the commercial centre of the southern Betsileo region, renowned for its folks, arts and crafts – to visit the “Antemoro Paper” factory (visit not possible on Sundays). This paper is a delicate, handmade, flower-decorated paper made of the fibres of the tree called “Avoha”.
Another stop 12km south of Ambalavao to visit the Anja Community Reserve, a unique environmental and cultural preservation site in the south of Madagascar. As both a nature reserve and a growing Malagasy town, Anja is an example of how humans and nature can co-exist and flourish.
You can see on a walk of around two hours on a little bumpy tracks, but not steep, some families of ring-tailed Katta lemurs in their natural surroundings. Continuation to Ranohira. Overnight at ISALO RANCH- hotel run mostly on solar power (B)

Morning trek inside the Isalo National Park to discover on a walk of around three hours on sometimes bumpy tracks, at some parts a bit steep, the massif of Isalo, its ruin like sandstones, canyons, endemic fauna and flora (Lemurs and endemic plants such as Pachypodium , aloes,..) and to swim in its natural pool.

Back to the hotel and overnight at the same hotel (B)

(240 Km about 4 hour-drive + 27 Km about 45 minutes-drive)
After breakfast, off to Tuléar along a straight road. The landscape is composed of dry forests, baobabs and some proudly decorated Mahafaly tombs. Arrival in Tuléar, Visit of the ADES workshop (only possible Monday to Friday during working hours), the project produces energy-efficient cookers in Madagascar and encourages the use of renewable energy. The use of climate-friendly solar cookers and energy-saving stoves saves large quantities of wood and charcoal. This, in turn, protects the climate, biodiversity and health and contributes positively to the fight against poverty.

Transfer to Ifaty

Overnight at HOTEL SOLIDAIRE MANGILY run by NGO BEL AVENIR B

Mangily Solidarity Hotel is a sustainable tourism initiative, priding itself on responsibility and solidarity, whose profits directly benefit the local community through various educational and environmental conservation projects of the Malagasy NGO Bel Avenir.

After breakfast, day free
Optional activities: visit of Reniala reserve with its Baobab Trees, birds etc.. ; Honko mangroves; snorkelling, whalewatching (july and august)
Overnight at HOTEL SOLIDAIRE MANGILY run by NGO BEL AVENIR B

(27 Km about 1,5 hour-drive)
Transfer to the airport and flight to the capital city of Madagascar. Meeting at the airport, Transfer to the hotel and overnight at HOTEL AU BOIS VERT B

Transfer to the airport for the flight onwards

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