1000 Views of Madagascar

On arrival in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, you will be welcomed and provided with assistance by friendly staff and transferred to your hotel.

Departure: 10h00
Distance: 150km

This morning you will start your journey to Andasibe through the green and luxuriant vegetation of eastern Madagascar. This first step brings you to a very humid part of the country with many primary forests and lakes. Along the way you will see Merina villages in the Rocky Mountains. Arrive at Andasibe in the afternoon and check-in to the hotel. This evening, depart from the hotel at approximately 18h00 on a night walk in the area of Andasibe to observe night active lemurs and other nocturnal animals. Return to the hotel and overnight. (B)

Today you will start your morning with a visit to the Special Reserve of Andasibe to see the Indri, the largest lemurs on the island. This 810 ha reserve is unique with its endemic fauna and flora and contains a wide variety of orchids, canopy, and endemic animals like chameleons, tenrecs, and many birds. In the afternoon, visit the V.O.I.I.M.A community reserve. This reserve provides a sustainable way of saving the remaining rainforests in the area by creating a livelihood for the local communities through reforestation projects. Here you will also come across a variety of wildlife, ranging from brown lemurs, indri, chameleons, geckos and birds. We overnight at the same hotel. (B)

Distance: 309km

You will have an early start and drive back to Tana, then head west across the highlands to Ampefy, a fertile volcanic area. The spectacular eroded hills called ‘lavaka’ remind us of the Far East with its rice fields and green landscape with vegetables and fruit trees. (B)

After a quick lunch stop in a forested area, you will arrive in Ampefy in the afternoon and visit the thundering Lilly Waterfall. Continue your journey through small villages and arrive in Antsirabe around 18h00. ‘The place of salt’ is an elegant city and known as the centre of the beer industry - you can smell the Star Brewery as you enter the town! Founded by Norwegians in 1856, it is the only place which really feels and looks like a European city. It has a temperate climate and therefore fruit and vegetables which grow in colder climates, are found in Antsirabe.