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DREAM TOUR FOR WEST COAST FOR 10 DAY:

Tour description 

Antananarivo, Antsirabe, Miandrivazo, Tsiribihina River, Belo sur Tsiribihina, Tsingy of Bemaraha National Park, Avenue of Baobab, Morondava

DAY 1: ARRIVE AT AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL OF ANTANANARIVO

We will meet to the arrive airport international of Antananarivo, then transfer you to your hotel and you have relax.

DAY 2: ANTANANARIVO, ANTSIRABE

After breakfast in the morning, your driver he will pick you up in your hotel and you will drive towards antsirabe. But you will traveling through the highland, you will pass rice fields and unusual eroded hills. If time allows, you can make a couple of stops on the way. In Ampatolampy there is a small family run factory making cooking pots out of recycled aluminium, At ambohimandroso you could stop to see some merina tribe tombs imposing structures as ancestors are revered. If you are here between june and september you could be inveted to see an important sacred and unusual highland practice of the turning of the bones. But when you will arrive in antsirabe, you will have oportunity to visit around antsirabe. Because there is have gems market and show room of all the pregiec gems here in madagascar, and you can ride the pousse pousse or ride a horse, and in antsirabe there is have a old cadedrale and have the thermal bath.

OVERNIGHT IN THE HOTEL

DAY 3: ANTSIRABE, MIANDRIVAZO

Start the journey in the morning after breakfast, the drive to Miandrivazo take you through a magnificent and unique volcanic landscape. Over hills through lots of very special villages, as you pass many small settlement. with interesting architecture and with local people busying about their lives, this is a four hour driver. The route doesn’t take us past any particularly good restaurents, so, istead, it’s better to many the most of the opportunity and have a picnic ! This can be prepare for us by the hotel from the previous night.

OVERNIGHT IN THE HOTEL

DAY 4: BOAT TRIP ON TSIRIBIHINA RIVER

Again, we will get going in the morning soon after breakfast. From the hotel, you drive down to the river and bring all the luggage with us in the boat. During the boat trip you can enjoy the scenery and landscape, you will see the people in the country side working a long the river side. And you can see lemurs, bats, chameleon, and bird. But the lunch will be prepared for you along the river side, and after lunch the boat trip continue, In the evening you will stop again for dinner on the river side.At this time, the boat man and your guide will prepare the tent for sleeping.

CAMPING

DAY 5: BOAT TRIP ON TSIRIBIHINA RIVER

Board the boat again in the morning, shortly after breakfast, the boat trip continue ! You will pass the Gorge of tsiribihina. After this, you will stop at a beautiful waterfall where you can swim. This is a particularly special spot, where you can find some lemurs, mainly the common brown lemurs. After lunch here, prepare for you by your boat man and local guide, the boat trip to continues. In the afternoon, we will stop in a village called Begindro. Taking a walk around this village is particularly intersting, because there is a big tobacco factory here. After the visit, you shall return to the boat and continues the journey until we reach where you can spend the night in the same spirit as the night before.

CAMPING

DAY 6: BOAT TRIP ON TSIRIBIHINA RIVER

Starting in the morning after breakfast, we will continue our voyage down the river. On the third and last day, we will pass to the seconde Gorge of tsiribihina. In the middle of this amazing land formation, you can find some bats. If we are lucky, we can find also crocodiles at this point of the tour. The boat trip ends in a small village. From here, you will take the zebu oxcar or (cow drawn carriage), to another village, where the 4 WD will be waiting for you. Once we reach there,we will drive to belo sur tsiribihina.

OVERNIGHT IN THE HOTEL

DAY 7: BELO SUR TSIRIBIHINA, BEKOPAKA TSINGY NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast, we will leave the hotel and start the driver to Bekopaka. This journey take a total of four hours. On the road, again,whether you are more interested in people or landscape, you will be able to feast your eyes.We have a good vehicle and and expert, skilled driver, but even so,the road will make you feel like you are really on an adventure i.e.  They can be a bit challenging. So it is good for us to stop and take in the scenery. We will pass through many village, and you can take some beautiful photos of the everyday scenes.

OVERNIGHT IN THE HOTEL

DAY 8: VISIT TSINGY OF BEMARAHA NATIONAL PARK

Leave early in the morning from in your hotel, we will brings some picnic lunch and head to the Gorge of Manambolo, the cave and the Vazimba tombs. This little tour take about two hours by pirogue with the local guide. After visiting the gorge, you will return in the car. Next up: the one and only Tsingy National Park, the big tsingy. It's 17Km from Bekopaka village, but the drive take 1 hour by car. Once inside the park, you can spend 5 hour half hiking. We will find many lemurs when visit the forest, which is also home to many specie of bird-Including Eagle! There are also magnificent: Orchids, Pachypduim, and many kind of medicinal plants. You will visit the cave, admire the remarkable natural formations. After this visit, you drive back to the hotel and you have some time to relax in the afternoon.

OVERNIGHT IN THE HOTEL

DAY 9: TSINGY NATIONAL PARK, AVENUE OF BAOBAB, MORONDAVA

Start in the morning after breakfast, we will drive back to the same road we use before. Back to Belo sur Tsiribihina, you will stop here for lunch, after lunch which it's back to the car and beautiful drive into the sunset in the truly exquisite Avenue of Baobab. There are number of specific baobab we will visit on the way, the sacred Baobab, Baobab in Love, Baobab Female. When we arrive at the Avenue of Baobab as the sun starts to set, the fantastic light means that the photo you take will be particularly stunning. Once it has set, we continue to Morondava, where we will spend the night.

OVERNIGHT IN THE HOTEL

DAY 10: TRANSFER TO THE AIRPORT IN MORONDAVA

This part slightly depends on your programme and what you want your trip. It is possible to get back to Tana by car. However, after ten days on the road, though cheaper, too much driving is not always preferable. If time allows, it's worth seeing some of Morondava before you leave. 

INCLUDED:

AIRPORT TRANSFER

CAR WITH THE DRIVER

FUEL FOR THE CAR

BED AND BREAKFAST

THE PARK TICKET FEE

TAX

FULL BOARD DURING THE RIVER TRIP

EXCLUDED:

DINER

LUNCH

GUIDE FEE

METHOD OF PAYMENT

A Reservation Requires a Deposit of 20%. But of the Total Price the Deposit is no Refundable if the Booking is Cancelled up to 30 Days before the arrival Date.

But we accepted once to Report the Date in case of Motivates Excuses. But the rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.

PLEASE NOTE: The Best time for the River Trip and Tsingy of Bemaraha is between mid-May and November.