Perinet - Pangalane

After breakfast, guided visit to the cultural and historical of Ambohimanga royal Palace, located at 20 km 

from the way out of the North of the Capital. The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga consists of a royal city and 

burial site, and an ensemble of sacred places. It is associated with strong feelings of national identity, and 

has maintained its spiritual and sacred character both in ritual practice and the popular imagination for the 

past 500 years. It remains a place of worship to which pilgrims come from Madagascar and elsewhere.

After the visit, transfer directly to the East to reach Andasibe (130 Km from Antananarivo), with one special 

stop at the Pereiras park. The fascinating park owned by the Peyrieras family, to see Cocquerel's Sifaka, 

and chameleons and many other reptiles, and some other Malagasy animals such as butterflies, moths (the 

giant Atlas Moth) and tenrecs. After 4 hours, arrival in Andasibe village, check-in at the hotel.

After breakfast, Guided visit to Analamazaotra National Park (It is better to leave the hotel at 7:30AM). 

This morning you need an early start to catch the Indri-Indri and the Diademed Sifaka in their forest home. 

The visit takes about 4 hours. Within a mile of the park you can hear the peculiar call of the indri very early 

in the morning until noon and again in the late afternoon. Indris (called Babakoto in Malagasy) are the 

largest living lemurs at all reaching up to 1 meter. Andasibe is the best place to observe the Indris given 

that there are a couple of families habituated to humans. It lives in small groups and cannot survive in 

captivity. There are several legends trying to explain its origins since it is considered a sacred animal in the 

whole Madagascar. Apart from the Indri, another 13 lemur species inhabit these forests, such as woody 

lemur, grey bamboo lemur, diademed sifaka, brown lemur, red mouse-lemur, red-bellied lemur, black and 

white ruffed lemur. In the afternoon, you will enjoy an amazing up close and personal 

experience with lemurs on the private Lemurs Island and then on to view many other species in the Vakona 

Reserve Zoo, where you will see many crocodiles in the huge river enclosure, native birds, and other 

wildlife in well-kept surroundings. Around 6:30PM, beginning of the Guided night visits, the visit will take 

1hour and half, and then drive back to the hotel.

After breakfast, you are going to join the Palmarium Reserve. Your trip will take around seven hours with 

some stops for photos or breaks if it is necessary. You need to take boat to get there (From Manambato to 

Palmarium).You will arrive there at the end of the day so you will check-in at the hotel and then begin the 

guided night walk. 

In the morning, you will start a guided day walk at the Palmarium Reserve. It is a little island where inhabit 

ten species of lemur as Indri, Sifaka, Coronatus, Varécia, variegata, Propithèques, particularly the 

wellknown Aye-Aye. There is also the best and endemic Madagascar palm tree as Dypsis, Ravenea, Orania, 

Voanioala and Lemurophoenix).

This day is dedicated to transfer you to Tamatave by following the Pangalane Chanel the flight up to the 

capital. So after breakfast, embarkation on a motor boat. On this boulevard, we will cross barges, "bushboats" (taxis-bush fluvial), canoes ..., local transport ... Spontaneous greetings between sailors ... The shouts of joy of the children on the banks accompany us all along our navigation. We are spectators of unusual and unforgettable scenes of life. Once in Tamatave, transfer directly to the airport for your flight to Antananarivo.