Madagascar Experiences

Your guide will collect you from the lodge early this morning and take you to the national park entrance for your walk along one of the circuits in this wildlife-rich rainforest. The start will be timed so that you are able to enjoy the dawn chorus to the maximum. Trails in both Andasibe (‘Perinet’), correctly known as Analamazaotra National Park and the equally rewarding Parc Mitsinjo (Analamazao...

After dark, your guide will collect you from your lodge that you are staying in on your Madagascar holiday and be transferred to the start point of the location where you go for your night walk:  this may be in Mitsinjo Parc or in the small rainforest parcel of VOIMMA, which is protected by a local guides association. Grading of the trails is easy. Be sure to pack a strong torch with some spare ba...

After an early breakfast your guide will collect you from the lodge and take you to the starting point of one of the Ranomafana National Park’s trails. As is always the case in Madagascar, day walks commence early in the morning so that you can savour the dawn chorus. Trails in Ranomafana for the most part, traverse some arduous terrain including a few steep slopes over long slopes,  so are graded...

After dark, your guide will collect you from your lodge and take you to a location outside the national park periphery where you will be able to seek the nocturnal wildlife which inhabits Ranomafana's upland rainforest. The grading of these walks is easy, with the notable exception of (the specifically requested and prearranged) night walks at Kianjavato, further afield. During night walks, most v...

This popular excursion entails visiting the scenic, community-run reserve of Anja, where you will have the chance to get to know Madagascar’s national mammal up close. Depart after breakfast at your hotel, or in the afternoon – depending on where you will be the night before, to the park. At this reserve there are two circuits, both graded as easy. The ringtails are there in abundance and as they ...

There are two ways to visit this superb transition forest national park, depending on which direction on the RN7 route you are coming from: Ideally, if you are based at Isalo National Park which is an hour's drive from Zombitse - and where the nearest good quality hotels are located - then your guide and driver will take you to Zombitse after an early breakfast. This way you can take in the hive o...

A very early start today: your guide and driver will collect you from the lodge after a quick coffee. You will be taken by 4-wheel drive from hotel, to the starting point of the circuits. With a local guide, set off into the otherworldly spiny bush. There are two small privately protected parcels of this compellingly 'unique' habitat, to where we take our clients, depending on special interests. T...

From July to early September, Princesse Bora offers well managed whale-watching excursions in association with MEGAPTERA. After breakfast, report to the office just next to the lodge grounds, for a briefing about the excursion. You will be given life jackets and dry bags, which come in very handy when out at sea. The excursions tend to last for a few hours, depending on how far out the whales may ...

This wonderful day outing by speedboat should be arranged in advance but settled directly at the Anjajavy lodge reception. You may share the boat with other guests as the excursions are not operated daily. (Current rate is €65 per person). After breakfast, depart by speedboat into the wild Moramba Bay, dotted with many small, uninhabited islets shaped like mushrooms because of strong erosion. On s...

There are a few variations of the Ankarana walk, depending on how long you want to stay out in the park for. An easy morning’s walk along mostly flat and gentle terrain, takes you to the ‘tsingy rary’ formations, where there is a viewing platform over which you can see a vast section of tsingy formations. Along the way, there is an area with an impressive number of Baobabs, of the large northern s...