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| Adventurous drive to Ankavandra / Manambolo River |
Adventurous drive to Ankavandra and the canoeing down the Manambolo River
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Adventurous drive to Ankavandra and the canoeing down the Manambolo River
From / to Antananarivo, 11 days / 10 nights, from August to October
Highlights:
– Looking for the piste to Ankavandra
– Canoeing down the Manambolo River
– Tsingy de Bemaraha NP
– Andranomena Special Reserve
– Avenue of the Baobabs
– Walks and Exploration of the baobab forest
Towns: Antananarivo – Antsirabe – Miandrivazo – Ankavandra – Belo sur Tsiribihina – Morondava
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: 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
Early morning we take our 4WD to start in direction of Ankavandra. We cross the Mahajilo River using a ferry. We pass a dry region, an isolated natural wilderness – a real “no man’s land.” The landscape is extraordinary, savannah, secondary forests, mango trees steep rocks and small villages. Night in tent on the beach of the Itondy River.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 4
We continue to reach Ankavandra. We pass an impressing landscape composed from relief and canyons. In the afternoon we reach Ankavandra. The village is on the Manambolo River. We stay in a small hotel.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 5
Ankavandra is the starting point for the Manambolo River tour. Quite and relaxing days are to come. During the nights we stay in tent on a sandbank on the beach of the River.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 6
We continue to canoeing in a moonlike landscape with steep rocks and naked hills. Night in tent.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 7
We pass the gorge of the Manambolo River and the tombs of the Vazimba, the first inhabitants of Madagascar. Early afternoon we reach the campsite of the Tsingy de Bemaraha NP. Night in the campground.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 8
Tsingy de Bemaraha is classified as one of the world wonders by UNESCO. The fascinating raised limestone plateau is decorated with sharp pinnacles. Areas of deciduous forest also provide the chance to see brown lemurs as well as Sifaka lemurs and a variety of birds. Bemaraha contains an original flora. The dry dense forest has several types of vegetable formations. In the morning we take a walk for landscape and to look for lemurs and birds. Lunch we take in Tsingy de Bemaraha, and then we start for Belo sur Tsiribihina. Night in du Menabe hotel.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 9
After we crossing the Tsiribihina River by ferry 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 hotel.
Included meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 10
After the strain of the last days, depending on your flight schedule, you can relax in at Morondava Beach hotel in Morondava. Transfer to the airport of Morondava, pick-up at Antananarivo airport, transfer to Le Relais des Plateaux hotel, overnight.
Included meals: breakfast, dinner
Day 11
Transfer to Antananarivo Airport. – End of service. –
Included meals: breakfast,
Complementary information:
Duration of the tour: 11 days
Car: 2 days
4WD: 4 days
Canoe tour: 3 days
Trekking: ½ day
Included services:
overnight in the mentioned or similar hotels in double room, during the river tour and in the Tsingy 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 leader, local guides at the visited parks, tip for drivers, local guides, porters, waiters etc. The tour can be changed according to circumstances.
Not included:
flights, drinks except mentioned, private expenses.
Requirements:
you should like camping, teamgeist.
Please note:
for this tour is one inbound flight required that is not included in the tour price.
This tour is customisable.
PRICING
2 persons 2600
3 persons 2100
4 persons 1900
Prices in Euro per person.
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