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| Madagascar - Canoeing down the Tsiribihina River |
Highlights: Canoeing down the Tsiribihina River in a traditional wooden boat – Andranomena Special Reserve – Avenue of the Baobabs – Walks and Exploration of the baobab forest. Special Offers !
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Discounted Tours
Small adventure groups, 600 Euro sharing: still every Monday from 16th February till 16th November 2009
Small adventure groups, 600 Euro sharing: every Monday from 12th April to 8th November 2010
An adventurous pirogue (canoe) tour, through beautiful landscapes, camping on the shores of the Tsiribihina River. Visiting waterfalls, and gorges. Maybe have the opportunity to spot some lemurs and other animals along the way
Dates and Duration:
Departure daily possible from March to November
Small adventure groups on Monday from Antananarivo
8 days
Towns:
Antananarivo – Antsirabe – Miandrivazo – Belo sur Tsiribihina – Morondava
Highlights:
Canoeing down the Tsiribihina River in a traditional wooden boat
Anosin’ Ampela waterfall
Andranomena Special Reserve
Avenue of the Baobabs
Walks and Exploration of the baobab forest
Day-by-day itinerary:
Day 1,
Pick-up at Antananarivo airport or your hotel. Drive to Antsirabe. The drive takes us across the highland landscape with its beautiful rice fields and its spectacular eroded hills called ‘lavaka’ and through a lush green landscape where vegetables and fruits are farmed. We will take a tour of the city, wandering through wide, palm-lined boulevards. Also we visit some artisan production. Night in colonial style des Thermes hotel where, in earlier years, farmers from the East coast relaxed.
Included meals: lunch, dinner
Day 2,
Antsirabe, from where we start, is a lovely town and a stroll around its streets will bring you in contact with some fantastic little shops selling Malagasy artefacts and handicrafts. It is a very peculiar town because of its charming characteristics. Industrial town – agricultural town – tourist town. After a short visit of the town we drive to Miandrivazo, about 220 km. We pass a moonlike landscape. Here is the starting point of the pirogue tour. Hotel Le Gîte de la Tsiribihina.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 3,
We begin our calm water river journey on the majestic Tsiribihina River. We travel approximately 160 km’s on the river, using traditional boats made out of one trunk of wood. Those trees are endemic to Madagascar or the region. Nowadays pirogue builders are rare as more and more motorboats are coming up. The trip is slow and you can relax and enjoy calls of birds such as bee-eater, coucal, pied crow… We will occasionally work together to lift the boat over high sand banks. Our trip will take us about 160km along the river, finally arriving in Belo sur Tsiribihina, a city 100 km north of Morondava. Three nights in tent, meals are served on the shore; campsites on the Tsiribihina River are usually large sandbars with smooth and clean tent sites.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 4,
On the river we pass several ranges of wooded hills on our way. Today we continue passing the Gorge of Bemaraha with its steep rocks before we stop at Anosin' Ampela, a wonderful waterfall where we can refresh ourselves. Also cloth washing is fast done. We will see dense vegetation along the riverbanks, towering cliffs and baobab forests. Water birds, fruit bats and lemurs will accompany our journey.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 5,
This morning we rise early for our relaxing boat trip downstream along the Tsiribihina River. Passing through diverse landscapes, isolated natural wilderness beside the Tsiribihina River, reminding us how far away we are from home. We continue to pass by some villages where on the way long the river kids wave their hands with their smiles saying: hello.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 6,
A last day on the Tsiribihina before we say ‘Good bye’ to the Tsiribihina. Also this last part of the pirogue trip leads us to beautiful landscapes with rice fields on banks. We arrive at Belo sur Tsiribihina in the afternoon. We have a 10-minutes walk to the hotel after an oxcart loaded of our luggage. Once arrived we enjoy a welcome drink in the hotel du Menabe.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 7,
We travel south by 4x4 vehicles to the Andranomena Special Reserve. The Reserve is a wonderland of baobabs, like a triple baobab, a manlike baobab and a womanlike baobab as well as lemurs and lakes. We enjoy a picnic lunch in the forest and walking in the Reserve. We try to catch sunset at the ‘Avenue of the Baobab’ between Belo sur Tsiribihina and Morondava. More than a dozen majestic old giant baobabs (Adansonia grandidieri) growing next to the track. The day's last golden rays strike the bloated trunks from the west. Night in Morondava Beach.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 8,
After the strain of the last days we can relax in at Morondava Beach in Morondava. – End of service. –
Included meals: breakfast
Complementary information:
Duration of tour: 8 days
Car: 2 days
4WD: 1 day
Pirogue tour: 4 days
Trekking: 1 tour of two hours
The pirogue or ‘lakana’ how it is called in Madagascar is a wooden boat made out of one trunk. They are made out of endemic hard wood like Soarafo or Arofy. They are 9 to 11 metres long and 50 to 60 cm large. Mostly are two persons in a pirogue. Of course there is a boatman who rows and navigates the pirogue.
Campsites on the Tsiribihina River are usually large sandbars with smooth and clean tent sites. All camping equipment is provided (spacious tents, 3-cm self-inflating mattress, blanket, sleeping bag, pillow).
Included services: overnight in the hotels in double room, during the river tour in tent, meals as mentioned, including 1 ½ l of mineral water per person per day, going by traditional pirogue, car or 4WD, all transfers, all entrance fees, English speaking tour manager, local guide at the visited park, tip for drivers, local guides, porters, waiters etc. This is a complex itinerary and may be subject to change.
Not included: flights, drinks except mentioned, private expenses.
Requirements: you should like camping, teamgeist.
This tour is customisable.
Prices in Euro per person sharing:
2 persons 995 Euro
3 persons 975 Euro
4 persons 820 Euro
5 persons 800 Euro
6 persons 745 Euro
7 or 8 persons 675 Euro
9 or 10 persons 650 Euro
11 or 12 persons 600 Euro
Single room surcharge 100 Euro
Small adventure groups, 600 Euro sharing: still every Monday from 16th February till 16th November 2009
Small adventure groups, 600 Euro sharing: every Monday from 12th April to 8th November 2010
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