Wildlife Madagaskar | Natuur & Cultuur reizen

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).

After breakfast, you will reach Andasibe. You check-in at the hotel and then beginning of the guided night walk in a Village Reserve. The visit will take 1hour and half, and then drive back to the hotel.

Early in the morning, you will start your visit in the Andasibe Mantadia National Park. The primary forest is formed by two distinct protected ares – the Analamazoatra special reserve and the Mantadia national park. Almost the whole park is formed by primary forest which has never been modified by human beings.It is also a refuge for many animals and plants. Thus, it is not uncommon to come across a multitude of species: lemurs, birds, chameleons, and insects of all kinds. You will enjoy this primary forest and its wildlife the whole day. You will also do trekking along this beautiful landscape and the natural swimming pool.

After breakfast, you will start with a guided visit at 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 : It is called Babakoto in Malagasy. They 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. 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. After lunch you will transfer directly to Tana

You will take a « domestic flight TLE – MOQ ». While arrive in Morondava, you will be transfer directly to Kirindy National Park, then beginning of the guided night walk.

Kirindy National Park, may be best known as the only location where the endangered giant jumping rat (Hypogeomysantimena) and the Madagascar endemic mammalian species of fossa occurs. There are a number of species of nocturnal lemurs present: Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur (the world’s smallest primate).

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Red-tailed sportive lemur. Pygmy mouse lemur, gray mouse lemur. Pale fork-marked lemur, Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur and the fat-tailed dwarf lemur. Further mammalian as narrow-striped mongoose, Verreaux’s sifaka, common tenrec, greater hedgehog tenrec and red-fronted brown lemur are also found here. Some of the local reptiles present are: Labord’s chameleon, various plated lizards, Henkel’s leaf-tailed gecko, big-headed gecko, Madagascar ground boa, giant hog-nosed snake, spear-nosed snake and kapidolo.

After a guided day walk in Kirindy forest, transfer directly to Morondava with 2 main stops in baobab amoureux and the Avenue of the Baobabs to enjoy the sunset.

The Avenue of the Baobabs, or Alley of the Baobabs, is a prominent group of Grandidier’s baobabs (Adansonia grandidieri) lining the dirt road between Morondava and Belon’iTsiribihina in the Menabe region of western Madagascar.

Today you will have a very long drive, so we suggest you to lease early as possible (at 7:00AM). So after breakfast, transfer directly to Antsirabe with some stops on the road for pictures and some breaks if it is necessary. Lunch in Miandrivazo. The landscape is decorated by rice fields, hills, red soil … Arrive in Antsirabe toward the end of the afternoon. Check in at the hotel.

In the morning : You will join directly Ranomafana, the village of Ifanadiana, well known for the Ranomafana National Park and to enjoy the green landscape on the road. Arrival in Ranomafana late in the evening. Check in at the hotel. You willstart your stay in this area by a guided night walk. If you like nature and animals, you won’t be disappointed: many birds, butterflies, and lemurs live in these forests. You will also find unique plant species that grow only in this park. Various medicinal plans but also a wide variety of orchids, and carnivorous plants that litter the soil and trees.

Fauna : There are a number of lemur species, including: Peyrieras’s woolly lemur, Avahi peyrierasi, Daubentoniamadagascariensis Crossley’s dwarf lemur. CheirogaleuscrossleyiSibree’s dwarf lemur, Cheirogaleussibreei. Greater bamboo lemur, Prolemursimus Golden bamboo lemur, Hapalemur aureus Ranomafana grey bamboo lemur, Hapalemur griseus ranomafanensis. Red-bellied lemur, Eulemurrubriventer Red-fronted brown lemur, Eulemurrufifrons, Small-toothed sportive lemur, Lepilemurmicrodon., Southern black and white ruffed lemur. Vareciavariegataeditorum,Red mouse lemur, Microcebus rufus Milne-Edwards’s sifaka Propithecusedwardsi.

In the morning, departure for a visit to the heart of the rainforest of Ranomafana National Park, a typical reserved area belonging to the last forest corridor along the eastern part of the Big Island. Discovery of the wealth of endemic biodiversity of the region, such as rare species and lemurs seriously endangered, many species of rare and endemic plants used by the local population for traditional medicine .

Walk in the forest : Trekking in the forest by following a track longing the forest passing through beautiful waterfall, meeting the rare species on the way. Back to the hotel for lunch. After the long day of tiring morning or visit of the spa source, nap and rest for the end of the day. Around 17:30, start of the guided night walk.

After breakfast, back to the road RN7 for the South to reach the city of Ranohira to meet Isalo National Park. During the journey, we take one stop at the reserve of Anja, small peasant associative park which shelters in particular several species of orchids and makis catta little wild, these famous lemurs striped white and black!Arrival at Isalo at the end of the day.

This day will start with a guided visit in Isalo national park, then end in the sunset in the famous Isalo window.

Fauna : A total of 340 faunal species are known to inhabit Isalo National Park, including 82 species of birds, 33 species of reptiles, 15 species of frogs and 14 species of mammals. Notable examples include the Madagascar ground boa Acrantophisdumerili, the white-lipped bright-eyed frog (Boophisalbilabris) and the Malagasy rainbow frog (Scaphiophrynegottlebei). The many species of bird found here include Benson’s rock thrush (Monticolasharpeibensoni), the knob-billed duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos) and the Madagascar ibis (Lophotibis cristata). Several different species of lemur are found in the park.

Flora : There are over 400 species of plant in the park, many of them endemic to the region. They include the Bismarck palm (Bismarckia nobilis) which recovers well after fires, Catharanthus ovalis which has medicinal uses, the elephant’s foot plant (Pachypodiumrosulatum) and the aloe Aloeisaloensis named after the mountain massif.

You leave Isalo early in the morning to reach Tulear with a stop at the Zombitse National Park. Ninety species of birds are known from the park, including thirty-eight endemic species. The park meets the Birdlife International criteria as an Important Bird Area. One species Appert’s tetraka (also known as Appert’s greenbul (Xanthomixisapperti) is classified with a conservation status of vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Fauna: Eight species of lemur are recorded; Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecusverreauxi) is an endangered species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, as is the Pale fork-marked lemur (Phanerpallescens).[The towering spiny bushes are home to more than 2000 plants species (many of them local endemic), some spectacular and very old baobabs (there is a giant baobab of 12,5 m diameter) and a complete endemic plants family, the Didieraceae.

After the visit, you will be transfer to Tulear and take a flight back to Tana) After the visit, transfer directly to the airport for flight back to the capital Antananarivo. On arrival, 45mn visit in the Queen’s Palace on the top of the hill (Rova Manjakamiadana), followed by a shopping and some souvenirs at the craft market of La Digue. And then, transfer to the airport for the international flight. End of our services.