7-Day Madagascar Classic Tour

Your arrival at Ivato-Antananarivo International Airport. Upon arrival, you'll meet our staff at customs. You'll be issued visas and baggage formalities. You'll drive to Antsirabe through mountains, hills, and rice fields. Along the way, you will see many funeral graves, some simple, others elaborate, which play an important role in the local population and their fascination with the afterlife. You'll arrive in Antsirabe after 3 hours of driving. The thermal city, "the city of water" as it is called, has become a very important economic city, famous for its fresh products and its mineral water, commonly called "Visy Gasy." The city is also known for its many rickshaws and its precious and semi-precious stones.

You'll have breakfast at the hotel. You'll have a small city tour of the city and its small manufacturer of corn horns, semi-precious stones. You'll have a road transfer to Ambositra, the capital of Malagasy crafts. You'll visit various shops, then continue to Fianarantsoa.
Upon arrival, you'll have a city tour in this town, which is the capital of the Betsileo people.

Depart Fianarantsoa south. Visit Ambalavao's handcrafted paper factory (10 min tour, gift shop). Wednesday: zebu market. Visit Anja reserve for ring-tailed lemurs. Afternoon: Ihosy, Horombe plains, Ranohira. Scenery changes—granite outcrops, Betsileo architecture, two-story buildings.

You'll have breakfast at the hotel and drive to the village of Ranohira to choose your local guide. The day is dedicated to trekking and discovering the park, made up of a ruin-shaped massif dating from the Jurassic, and discovering the most beautiful landscape in Madagascar. You will visit the other side: the natural pool, where you can swim. You might spot bird species like the Madagascar hoopoe, the common Newtonia, and, with luck, the juvenile short-eared owl, the long-tailed ground-roller, and reptiles and frogs (Ustalet's chameleon, jewel chameleon, tailed iguanid thorny, endemic mantilla expectata). There's the possibility of enjoying the spectacular sunset at the natural rocky window of Isalo if time permits.

You'll have breakfast at the hotel. Then, you'll have a morning visit to the Reniala Reserve. Located at the edge of the northern and southern dry forest and the thorny bush, the Reniala Reserve, or “mother of the forest reserve,” is a habitat of remarkable diversity. You will take a notion of medicinal plants and don't miss taking a photo in the avenue of baobabs, the cave of baobabs, and tired baobabs. You can't see it anywhere. The visit will end in the village of the tortoise, where you will have to spot the various endemic tortoises of Madagascar. You have a free afternoon, but there's a possibility to take advantage of the hotel's beach.

You'll have a transfer early in the morning to the airport. Domestic flight to join the capital of Madagascar island. You'll arrive at 10:35 am, check in at your hotel, and have lunch. Then in the afternoon, you'll have a city tour towards Antananarivo. You will visit the royal palace and the Avenue of Independence.

After breakfast, you'll purchase souvenirs in local craft shops. We find that all the local handicrafts of all 6 provinces of Madagascar are handmade objects. It must be said that here is the time that we can get to know the country well, because
we all find it there. You'll visit Tsarasaotra Park to meet several endemic aquatic birds: Free lunch. You'll transfer to the airport for departure with our agent.