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Madagascar briefly. Eco-tour: Anjozorobe-Angavo

Key attractions

Overview

Quieter than some other reserves in Madagascar, Anjozorobe is 100 kilometres north of the capital, Antananarivo. Anjozorobe is an area of great importance and supports a wide range of fauna and flora. The Anjozorobe-Angavo forest corridor is one of the last vestiges of natural forests in Madagascar central highlands. Your stay at the Anjozorobe-Angavo forest corridor will allow you to participate in the community development. Local community is the direct beneficiary of the project.

Key infomration

Price on request
Duration 4 Nights/5 Days
Transport A car
Distance about 200 km
Camp No
Difficulity Easy peasy
Regions Antananarivo and around, East

Day by day

Arrival at Antananarivo

Today is a great day! The first date) Your first taste of Madagascar will be your arrival in Antananarivo (or Tana, as it is known by the locals) from your international flight. We will do our very best to make our trip in Madagascar unforgettable! Our bureau's team will be at the airport to welcome you from your international flight.

Our North Madagascar Family Tour will begin in Antananarivo, where we will depart by car, but before catching a hotel we will visit in the Ivato crocodile farm, also called “Croc Farm”. Spanning three hectares, this lush green oasis is ideal for you to relax, we know that having an international flight is tiring.

After, we will depart by car to your nice hotel, where a prepared-room with a comfortable bed will be available for you to rest. Once there, refresh yourself. Look by the window, you made it! Take time to unpack what you need for tonight, rest and be ready for tomorrow! Discover the City of a Thousand as you are taken to hotel where you will stay overnight. And in the evening after dinner, over a cocktail we discuss our program.

From the first day to the last day our experienced and professional guide and the driver will be next to you, so don’t worry about it, they are near to make sure you have everything you need. Tomorrow we are leaving the capital city.

Arriving in Tana;

Visit in the Ivato crocodile farm, also called “Croc Farm”, lunch and cocktails;

Accommodation at the hotel, Bed & Breakfast.

Dinner and discussion our program.

Antananarivo – Anjozorobe-Angavo - Protected Area

During the course of the morning you travel to Tsarasaotra which means birds‘ island, a small green oasis in the north of the city. The park is a refuge for many birds that can be easily watched and photographed here – among them 14 endangered species that only occur in Madagascar.

After visiting Tsarasaotra Park, we will drive along a scenic road to Anjozorobe-Angavo - Protected Area (2 h). Here the adventure really starts. Anjozorobe-Angavo offers you the simplicity of harmonious communication with nature.

Arrival at the camp, accommodation at the hotel, lunch, a pause to rest.

In the afternoon we will have an easy walk «Community Immersion tour»: over 7 km, 2 to 4 hours of walk. The “community immersion” tour is very good for you to discover the daily life of the local population who live in the protected area and its surroundings: rice fields, fields, laterite, green forest… It’s a rich landscape and colours tour. Crossing rice fields and visiting the Ambodipaiso and Antsahabe villages, you’ll understand how to produce the Malagasy’s basic food, the rice and its long step. The “community immersion” tour allows to know the story of the eucalyptus entry in Madagascar, its links with  railways, countryside, source of income… *meeting the local craftsmen with their wickerwork  and  the zebu carts manufacturing; *discovering the Imerina typic village and its social and cultural organization: the village origin and story, the house style and orientation and the agricultural products preservation; *participating in the Antsahabe Fokontany to the villagers daily activities: collecting food products in the fields, their preparation and the typical merina cooking. The “Community Immersion” tour will also give you the opportunity to learn more about the positive impacts of the conservation biodiversity on the local community. You can participate to planting trees from the community nursery. So, you contribute to the development of the community and the sustainable management of the site’s natural resources.

Distance: about 100 km;

Drive time: about 2 hours;

Visit in the Tsarasaotra Park;

Walks in the Anjozorobe-Angavo - Protected Area;

Accommodation at the hotel, Bed & Breakfast.

We will be accommodated in elegant bungalows, in the heart of a humid and tropical forest. Equiped with private bathroom with hot water and mobile heating in winter, each bungalow has a large balcony opening to a green landscape. The restaurant and its raised balcony are as much invitations for relaxation and serenity.

Night tour: 1,2 km to 1 hour of walk. During your visit, you’ll see the nocturnal lemurs, like the Lepilemur mustelinus or “Tsidy” and the Avahi laniger or “Fotsife” in Malagasy. In the forest night life, it’s possible to meet others nocturnal animals: chameleons (Calumma brevicornis, Calumma globifer and Calumna gastrotaenia); Frogs (Mantidactilus and gypheromantis). Also, a lot of various insects in the Anjozorobe Angavo forest, among them the stick insect (phasme).

Anjozorobe-Angavo - Protected Area

Shadows and light tour, 3,4 km, between 3 to 4 hours of walk: Enjoy this silence place and the biodiversity. Realize their importance life for the local community and their ecological role. It allows to discover the Anjozorobe-Angavo protected forest’s fauna and flora, the primary forest rich in medicinal and endemic plants. The famous bird “Jakoko Mena” or Rufus Headed Grandruler can be observed during the tour too.

You can meet two of the largest lemurs of Madagascar: the Indri Indri, almost with a black coat, characterized by their morning shoot to wake you up, and the Propithecus diadema, easy to observe, with white and brown coat. Some nocturnal species such as Lepilemur mustelinus and Avahi laniger can also be seen in their sleep during the day. There are a lot of plants too that local population use, like “Ramy” in Malagasy or the Canarium madagascariensis (for manufacturing a perfume incense), the “Vintanina” (for manufacturing carts wheels) and the «Hasina» (for circumcision). The Sacred waterfall tour ends up for visiting the small fall, a traditional religion place. Villagers are doing there some ritual blessed request or “tso-dràno” to “Zanahary”, the Great God and ancestors in Malagasy. For information, tuesday, thursday and saturday are taboos for the fall to do sacrifice. The villagers respect that.

In the afternoon we will have a stroll «Bamboo tour»: between 2 to 3 hours of walk. You can see many animals and plants of the protected area, like the famous bamboo trees. They are a Hapalemur griseus’s house. During you walk, you can meet the Eulemur fulvus and Propithecus diadema too. On the “Vakona” trees or pandanus, you can see frogs. They stay on their leaves.

Orchid tour: 1 hour of walk. The Anjozorobe Angavo protected area is characterized by the presence of different orchids. The very famous orchids of the rainforest, Angraecum and Aerangis citrata, are present. Orchid tour allows you to see the forest panorama and the Antsahabe village, an amazing view from the forest. You can meet in the meantime some lemurs and the community reforestation.

Shadows and light tour;

Bamboo tour;

Orchid tour;

Accommodation at the hotel, Bed & Breakfast.

Anjozorobe-Angavo - Protected Area

Hiking tour: 14km, between 5 to 7 hours of walk. This tour is for the big walkers. First, the long walk goes through the forest remnants of Madagascar highland. You can see indeed the Indri indri and the Propithecus diadema, and understand the forest socio-economic and cultural functions. Second, when you arrive at the top of the protected area, your sight is directly to the deterioration process of the natural resources, especially the highland forest. Third, your passage of the Afatrapeo Doany is good to know the local cultural as the Alahamadibe or the Malagasy New Year. It’s a sacred site with gap and 3 raised stones. Then, you see the Ramanarabe tomb during your tour. He was a Betsimisaraka southsayer, the witness of this important region for the Merina royal conquest. On the edge of the natural forests, you’ll meet some people who making charcoal with Eucalyptus trees. After, you’ll pass in the Ambodipaiso small village where you can develop to the villagers your knowledge about the local wickerwork and the zebu cart makers. When you arrive in the Antsahabe village, the population origin and story, the house’s style and color, the social organization within the fokontany and the underground rice storehouse or “silo” in Malagasy, will be explain by the elders of the village. In one of the houses, you would be invited to savour the local coffee. The tour will be continue and visit the public primary School of Antsahabe and the Antsahabe birthplace of “Ravoandriana village”, then crossing between rice fiel and finally the community nursery of Andreba where you can participate in the local reforestation.

Hiking tour;

Lunch-Picnic;

Accommodation at the hotel, Bed & Breakfast.

Back to Antananarivo and Flight Home

After an early breakfast, we will return to the capital, if time permits - we will have a short city tour.

Today your tour ends. A transfer back to the airport Ivato. We wish you a comfortable journey home and are sure you will take with you some wonderful memories of Madagascar. Experienced travelers are used to goodbyes, but that doesn't mean they get any easier. When the time comes to depart the wonderful Madagascar, we wouldn't be surprised if you were already planning a return trip!

Transfer to the airport Ivato.

Extend this tour:

First time visitors to Madagascar should spend at least two nights in Andasibe, and go to the Mantadia National Park. The Park is home to the loudest and most famous animal the Indri (Indri indri) jumping through the treetops, whose calls reach far away through the forest and awake many guests in the morning.

After spending the time at Mantadia National Park and Analamazaotra chasing lemurs through the gorgeous rainforest you are thought that you had already seen too many lemurs for one day… You are wrong… There is no such thing as too many lemurs for one day. Andasibe has enough to do that you can fill a day or two before, after, or in between visiting Andasibe-Mantadia National Park.

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Included in price

PLEASE NOTE: The price indicated is per person sharing room (DBL or TWIN), it is based on 2 Persons. If the group is of 4, 6, 8, 10 Persons, the price decreases.

*Pick up and drop off;

*Accommodations in standard hotels/bungalows (similar to European hotels 3*), bed & breakfast;

*Car 4x4 with a driver;

*Fuel;

*Services of your professional, experienced, English-speaking personal guide-escort (French or Russian language);

*Entrance fees to parks and reserves and the services of local guides;

*Picnics in the stipulated places at the program;

*Excursions and visits as per itinerary (Unless labeled as optional or additional)

*All transfers, including water transport;

*Government taxes and fees, including TVA and tourist tax at hotels;

*Bottled mineral water in the vehicle.

Not included in price

*International air travel;

*Visa fee (single entry 1 month visa currently 30 Euros, issued on arrival);

*Your medical insurance;

*Personal items and expenses;

*Soft and alcoholic drinks in hotels;

*Lunches en-route, lunches and dinners, Lunch in the crocodile farm;

*Additional activities and excursions;

*Special Requirements: to be specified during your order.

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