Madagascar Wildlife

Fly to Antananarivo, arriving late evening. You'll be welcomed and taken to Relais des Plateaux to overnight with breakfast.

Your dedicated professional wildlife expert guide and driver take you to Andasibe-Mantadia National Park where you stay for 3 nights in Andasibe Hotel or Vakona Forest Lodge on a half board basis. Make an introductory rainforest walk with them into this beautiful place, or visit lemur island.

Explore the mid altitiude rainforest of Andasibe aka 'Perinet' with your guides, who know where to locate resident wildlife including iconic species such as Indri, Parson's chameleon, Blue coua and many more. Night walk with the guides who manage a small rainforest parcel, VOIMMA

Visit some primary rainforest in search of a host of rare species including Diadem sifaka and Pittalike ground-roller. Views from the ridges are lovely.

Early morning rainforest walk followed by a visit to the tree nursery of Association Mitsinjo, an NGO that does commendable work in this area aimed at assisting permanently resident communities and habitat protection and restoration. You'll be invited to plant an endemic tree as part of ongoing reforestation work here - what better way could there be to really put something back into Malagasy soil?

Drive about 4 hours along a good road back to Antananarivo to overnight in Relais des Plateaux with breakfast.

You'll be transferred to Ivato airport for the flight to Morondava on the hot, dry west coast. On arrival, your driver and guide take you via the famed Allee des Baobabs to Kirindy Forest for a two night stay in Camp Amoureux with all meals included.

Exploration of Kirindy and Marofandilia Forests should reveal the likes of endangered Giant jumping rat, Fosa and tiny Madame Berthe's mouse lemurs.

Explore the dry deciduous forest of Kirindy, where people come to look for Fosa in particular. Birders can seek the likes of White-breasted mesite, Coquerel's coua and Sicklebill vangas and those into herpetology should see gigantic Oustalet's chameleon and Collared iguanids.

After a final early morning walk in Kirindy, travel 2 hours back to Morondava, stopping along the way near the Baobab alley to visit another tree planting project, this time managed by FANAMBY, Here, you can make a contribution with a difference and plant a sapling of one of the three endemic Baobabs species that occur in the area!

Continue to Morondava to chill out and relax at the lovely Palissandre Cote Ouest with dinner and breakfast included.

As Antananarivo acts as a centrally located 'hub' for itineraries involving exploration of different regions of Madagascar, you fly back here today and your guide and driver take you back to Relais des Plateaux to overnight, breakfast included. Sightseeing is included in either Morondava and/or Antananarivo, flight schedules depending.

To round off your Madagascar Wildlife experience, fly south to Fort Dauphin today. There your guide and driver take you 4 hours along a frightful road (but the journey is very scenic) to Berenty Private Reserve. This allows you to explore the weird 'spiny bush' and some dry Tamarind woods, brimming with wildlife. Flagship species that people come from all over the world to see here include the Ringtail lemur, the 'dancing' Verreaux's sifakas and stately Giant coua. Stay 2 nights in Berenty Lodge on a half board basis.

You'll quickly see why this is Madagascar's most famed protected area: there's abundant wildlife and its easily found as the reserve has a well maintained grid of broad trails. You can also do night walks to seek the likes of Madagascar flying fox, White-footed sportive lemur and Gray mouse lemur.

After a morning walk in Berenty, set off back to Fort Dauphin to overnight in Berenty Lodge's sister hotel, Croix du Sud, with dinner and breakfast included.

You'll be taken to Fort Dauphin airport to check in for the flight back to Antananarivo. Here, you'll have a day/ evening room if flying out on Air France. Visit the Artisans Market for some souvenir and handicraft shopping. Evening transfer to the airport to check in for the Air France flight departing after midnight