NORTH OF MADAGASCAR BY DIEGO-RED TSINGY-ANKARANA-NOSY BE ON 10 DAYS

MADAGASCAR NORTH TOUR TO DIEGO AND NOSY-BE ISLAND

It’s 10 days trip exploring northern part of Madagascar us follow:

STRENGTHS

- Panorama of Diego bay
- Biodiversity to Amber Mountain Park
- Tsingy Ankarana and red Tsingy landscape
- Beautiful beaches of Nosy-Be

LEVEL:
Fine health condition, avalaible for all.

Day 1: Arrival to Madagascar
Assistance to the arrival and transfer to Antananarivo city; accommodation to the hotel. Few tours of the city such us Analakely market, railway station....

- Overnight to Shanghai hotel

Day 2: Antananarivo - Diego - 3 Bays
Transfer to the airport, connection flight to Diego Suarez. Transfer to Diego and Ramena village. Visit of 03 bays: Sakalava bay, pigeon’s bay and the dunes bay which build the reputation of Diego region. It’s also possible to walk along the bays for a few hours to explore the surrounding fauna and flora. Tour of bays reveals natural beauty and quiet environment near these long beaches. Then we discover Cape with its lighthouse and cannons inherited from the colonial time.

- Lunch to Ramena at a local restaurant.

Late in the evening, we can enjoy a spectacular sunset. Way back to Diego after.

- Accommodation to Suarez hotel.

Day 3: The Emerald Sea
Free day to the Emerald Sea. Transfer to the loading dock where all convoy team who will drive you to Emerald Sea await us. The Emerald Sea is as Emerald colored lagoon. Shallow and transparent; you can play here snorkeling and it’s immersing us in a natural aquarium decorated by all sizes of shell and varieties of fish. In the afternoon, the team will drive you back to Ramena via the reefs coral like tsingy aspect to admire the works of waves.

- Overnight to Suarez hotel.

Day 4: Diego – Joffreville - Ambre montain
We drive to Ambre mountain national park. Created in 1958, Ambre montain National Park is the trueasure on the nature to the north. We start visit with our guide to search for Brookesia minima, and several species of leaf tail geckos. We also look for the ring-tailed mongoose, the fossa, and as many as 8 different lemurs : Sanford’s brown lemur, crowned lemur, lesser bamboo lemur and are five species of nocturnal lemurs. Other mores 75 different bird species leave together to Amber Mountain for example the Amber Mountain rock-thrush.

- Accomodation to Relais de la Montagne d'Ambre hotel.

Day 5: Joffreville - Tsingy Ankarana via red Tsingy

Departure from Joffreville and road direction to red Tsingy. Then we will drive to Anivorano village.

- Lunch to Anivorano.

After lunch, we organize a short visit of Antagnavo sacred lake. Then we get back the tours to rally Mahamasina village.

- Overnight to “Chez Aurelien” lodge.

Day 6: Visit of Tsingy Ankarana - Ankify
Transfer to the Tsingy entrance park. Ankarana National Park is characterized by a karstic massif which made Tsingy and extends over 35 km. Including a hike through bizarre landscapes of grey ‘Tsingy Tsingy’ limestone pinnacles, mixed with patches of dense tropical jungle, deciduous forest, deep caves and canyons and rushing rivers. With an annual rainfall of almost 2000 mm, the underlying rocks undergo heavy erosion producing an amazing karst topography, including the famous limestone ‘tsingy’ spires. Ankarana is one of the most visited in Madagascar for its large animal populations: the paradise flycatcher, the sunbird, the vagas, the crowned lemur, the Sanford’s brown lemur, the northern sportive lemur, the brown mouse lemur, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur, the fork-marked lemur, the eastern woolly lemur, Perrier’s sifaka and the western lesser bamboo lemur...

- Picnic lunch inside the park.

After finishing the visit of the park, we make a transfer to Ankify loading dock.

- Overnight to Baobab hotel.

Day 7: Ankify - Nosy Be
Transfer between Ankify to Nosy Be seaport, and transfer to the hotel.

- Accommodation to Nosy lodge hotel for 02 nights.

Day 8 - 9: Nosy BE
Free day and half board to Nosy Lodge hotel. The hotels will surely suggest you various types of excursions depending on your request and your abilities such us Nosy Iranja, Nosy Komba, Nosy Tanikely, Nosy Sakatia, Mont Passot, Lokobe Reserve and Nosy Mitsio.