The South : Unusual encounter

Bemiray Tours

Day 0 : Airport - Antananarivo

Welcome and transfer to your hotel

Diner & night at Palissandre hôtel 

Day 02 : Antananarivo – Antsirabe (165 km : 3h to 4h30 with stops)

Weak up & Breakfast at 08H00. Let’s meet our guide tour for the briefing about the trip. Departure to the south part og the big island : the mytik national 07. We get at the first spa town the Madagascar. Throughout the country landscape villages, we will see some of typical teracce of ricefields especially in the malagasy highlands. We may have a stp to visit a smelter foundry relates to a method for providing plastic cookware. Free lunch on the way. Arriving in Antsirabe the capital of Vakinankaratra, wich is situated in the central highlands of Madagascar. The region covers an area of 16,599 km2 (6,409 sq mi), making it the third least extensive region in Madagascar. It borders the region of Bongolava in the northwest, Itasy in the north, Analamanga in the northeast, Alaotra Mangoro and Atsinanana in the east, Amoron’i Mania in the south, and Menabe to the west. This town is regarded as the ‘pousse-pousse‘ capital (rickshaw) 

Diner & Night at your hotel . (Free lunch) Maison Tanimanga/Couleur Café

Day 03 : Antsirabe

Antsirabe is known for its relatively cool climate (as the rest of the central region of the country), its industry and the high concentration of pulled rickshaws . Wake up earlier, meeting with the local guide for 4 to 7 hours of walking. Let’s go to Betafo : 22km ouest Antsirabe on N 34 and let’s start visiting villages.  

– village of blacksmith

– Visit of the workshop of rope and basketry

– Visit of Antafofo and Andriamamovoka waterfall, lake Tatamarina, the first Lutherian church of Madagascar (1867), visit of Royal Tomb

– View of typical landscape of Vakinankaratra (stairs rice fields), we ll have a picnic lunch. In the afternoon, we go visiting the market place of Betafo (favorable on Monday) and at last, the Thermal spa of Andranomafana Betafo (bath recommended after the trek)

At the end of day, we go back to Antsirabe. 

Diner & night at Maison Tanimanga / Couleur Café

Day 4 : Antsirabe - Ranomafana

Wake up at 07H00, after taking breakfast let’s drive to Ambositra. This city is the capital of the Amoron’i Mania region. It is the centre of Madagascar’s’ wood-carving industry due to the presence of the Zafimaniry tribe, a subgroup of the Betsileo tribe. There are many shops selling wooden boxes, chessboards and figurines : belongs to world heritage. Let’s continue to the national park of Ranomafana.  We start visiting the Park right away, the second spa town of the Island. Ranomafana National Park is in the southeastern part of Madagascar, tropical rainforest, it is home to several rare species of flora and fauna including the golden bamboo lemur, the greater bamboo lemur, black and white ruffed lemur and Milne-Edwards sifaka, and over 130 species of frogs. The park was established in 1991 with the purpose of conserving the unique biodiversity of the local ecosystem and reducing the human pressures on the protected area. It is part of the World Heritage Site Rainforests of the Atsinanana. The most important crops are bananasand rice, while other important agricultural products are pineapple and cassava Free lunch in your charge. 

Diner & night at Thermal Hôtel

Day 5 : Ranomafana - Fianarantsoa - Ranohira

Earlier in the morning, weak up at 06H00AM, on the way to Ranohira. We pass through the city of Betsileo: Fianarantsoa. It was built in the early 19th century by the Merina as the administrative capital for the newly conquered Betsileo kingdoms. Fianarantsoa means “Good education” in Malagasy. It is a cultural and intellectual center for the whole island. It is home to some of the oldest Protestant and Lutheran cathedrals on the island, the oldest theological seminary (also Lutheran), as well as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Fianarantsoa. It is considered to be the capital of wine in Madagascar, because of the presence of many wine industries in the city.

On the way, you go through Ambalavao : The city is in the most southern part of the Central Highlands, according to  the timing we may visit the famous paper introduced by the Arabs. It belongs to the district of Ihosy, which is a part of Ihorombe Region. It is also a site of industrial-scale mining. The majority 85% of the population of the commune are farmers, while an additional 10% receives their livelihood from raising livestock. The most important crop is rice, while other important products are peanuts and cassava. We will put you in intimate contact with a delectable reality, landscapeand culture that will catapult your imagination to a higher brow and leave you yearning for a comeback. 

Diner & night at Isalo Rock Lodge / Satrana Lodge

Day 6 : Isalo National Park

All day for the exploration : according to your fitness. Différent local tours inside the park are available and proposed : 

·         Canyon des Makis, canyon des rats…

·         Cascade des nymphes

·         La piscine naturelle

·         Grottes des Portugais

Free lunch

Diner & night at Isalo Rock Lodge / Satrana Lodge

Day 7 : Ranohira - Tulear - Ifaty (250 km : aphalt 5h to 6h00 with stops)

Breakfast and on the way to reach the capital of the Atsimo-Andrefana region, located 936 km southwest of national capital Antananarivo. The landscape changes to savannah & bush. Toliara is located on a broad coastal plain, surrounded by dunes and mangroves, near the Tropic of Capricorn in the Mozambique Channel. Free lunch. A nearby barrier reef (the Great Reef) is 18 km long and 3 km wide. The beach area is extended by an underwater beach along the continental shelf that slopes gently seaward. To the north lies the Delta Fiherenana. 

Diner & night at Dune hôtel / Princesse du Lagon

Day 8 : Ifaty

Several activities are posible : deep sea fishing, scuba diving , quad, snorkeling, biking, walking

Diner & night at Dune hôtel / Princesse du Lagon

Day 9 : Ifaty - Tulear - Antananarivo

Aeroport transfer by the hotel. Flight to Antananarivo. Day use at an hotel depending on the flight schedule. 

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