The South Side 9 days / 7 nights in Madagascar From 20 participants 1 Tour Leader The highlights of the travel

Help ! C.S.R in with children’s school Ankizy Gasy

Drive along the Highlands and visit villages

Discover the fauna in the of Ranomafana NP

Meet the Catta at the community reserve of Anja

Hike in the amazing landscape of the Isalo mountains

Sail in the most beautiful lagoon of Madagascar in Ifaty Day 1. Antananarivo

Several airlines serve Madagascar.

Welcome to Madagascar

Antananarivo is one of the most picturesque capitals in the world with its brick houses clinging to the hills and stairs. On the hills, lies the old town with old royal squares and beautiful typical houses.

Welcome by our guide in the hall of the airport. Transfer to the hotel near the airport.

Dinner at Bois Vert Hotel.

Overnight at the Hotel Bois Vert

Good night and see you tomorrow ! BOIS VERT HOTEL ACCOMODATION

Unique in the capital, the hotel "Au Bois Vert" offers forest, birds and The hotel has 24 rooms including 13 twin, 9 doubles and two chameleons ! Located 5 minutes from the airport, the hotel is built in a family rooms all equipped with free internet connection, flat park of 3 hectares fully wooded attesting to the richness of the flora screen TV with cable channels, air conditioning and safe. and fauna in Madagascar. Day 2. Antananarivo - C.S.R – Antsirabe

Breakfast at the hotel.

C.S.R IN MADAGASCAR Short drive to the village of Ambohidratrimo. Meeting with Patrisia and Kasia, two polish ladies in charge of Ankisy Gasy / Children of Madagascar. We visit the school, meet the teachers and the pupils. Your help is of most welcome ! More info on their facebook here > ------ at the Combava restaurant.

Out of the city, fields and different villages define the landscape in the countryside.

Antsirabe is a city in the Central Highlands and the second largest city of Madagascar, second largest city of Madagascar. We take our time for a city tour and go for a “pousse-pousse” (rickshaw) riding for those who want because it is the main transport at Antsirabe town.

Dinner and overnight at Hotel Plumeria. www.plumeriahotelantsirabe.com Your hotel in Antsirabe

PLUMERIA HOTEL www.plumeriahotelantsirabe.com Introduction Plumeria hotel welcomes you in a warm and charming setting, arranged with noble wood, Wellness typical sculpture and works of famous Malagasy artists; located in the center of Antsirabe Our SPA offers a sauna, a Jacuzzi 6 places and 2 massage rooms to get you a maximum of Madagascar, 150m north of the station, 7km from Andraikiba Lake, 17km from Lake well being, Tritriva, 30km from Mount Ibity. Conference Accommodation A meeting room with a capacity of 18 people with equipment to carry out your meetings: All rooms are equipped with private terrace, private bathroom with hot water, flat screen TV video projector, whiteboard with international channels, closet, safe, heating in winter and free wifi. Suites add sitting areas, minibars, equipped and hairdryers. Services: Room service, Internet

Restaurant Suggested menus Fine , serving European and Malagasy dishes. Our map is renewed according to the Lunch : Salade Plumeria, Crème de potiron et cardamome, Escalope de poulet poêlé à seasons, la foie gras, Salade de fruits Bar Dinner : Salade du jardin d'Antsirabe, Suprême de crabe, Magret de canard à la façon Where you can meet in the early evening, and taste our homemade rums arranged Rossini, Gratin de fruits Day 3. Antsirabe - Ambositra - Ranomafana

Breakfast at the hotel We keep going on the national number 7 and progress towards the south

Passing through Ambositra town, we go round the shops and visit Zafimaniry artisans to look for a piece of carved wood or finely done square box marquetry. Walk around town and have lunch in local restaurant where you can taste local specialties.

Lunch with malagasy dishes.

We continue to Ranomafana, at Betsileo tribe region, we have a winding road; we are at the highest plateau of Madagascar highlands.

Ranomafana is located in the south east of Madagascar. It is a hilly area covered with wet tropical forest. The elevation ranges from 0.248 to 0.880 mile. The village of Ranomafana is the only settlement. The Tanala ethnic group composes the main population.

Arrival at the end of the afternoon, setting at the hotel.

Dinner and overnight at Setam Lodge. Your hotel in Ranomafana

SETAM LODGE Introduction www.setamlodge.com SETAM LODGE is located on the National road (RN) 25 between the RN 7 and Restaurant Mananjary, at twenty five kilometers from the junction, 1.800 km downstream to the The restaurant can serve up to 50 people. Dishes are copious, keen on not park entrance. disorientating delicate palates while offering the opportunity to discover the Nature & Lodge” is an alliance with is bound to win and this has already beed proved, universe of Malagasy cuisine. namely for destinations with Anglo-Saxon tradition. SETAM LODGE is a confirmation of it in region of Ranomafana witch is a sanctuary of nature Services Room service. Child care. Accommodation The parking : For the convenience of our customers, every vehicle shall drop its 20 standard bungalows, can be accommodated as Single, Double or Twin. Each customers to the parking next to the restaurant. Hotel porters ensure luggage bungalow is equipped with heating, ventilation and individual sanitary hot water. carrying to their bungalow.

Day 4 . Ranomafana National Park -

Breakfast at the hotel.

We get in Ranomafana National Park after a short drive. This is one of the most beautiful sites that the primary forest and rainforest in Madagascar can offer. We walk into the park with a local guide in this very humid environment. You should take you waterproofs for the visit. We can find many species of as the Golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus), the red-fronted brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus), red-bellied lemur (Eulemur rubriventer) and we can meet also some rare and endangered species as the Greater bamboo lemur (Hapalemur simus). We return to the village.

Lunch at the Thermal Hotel.

We drive back to the main road and continue to Fianarantsoa,

Arrival in the capital of Betsileo tribe.

Dinner and overnight in the hotel Zomatel. Day 5 . Fianarantsoa - Ambalavao - Ranohira

Breakfast at the hotel.

Departure from Fianarantsoa.

At Ambalavao, we visit the Antemoro paper factory. The secular process to make this paper by the bark of mulberry tree Avoha (Bosqueia danguyana) was introduced in Madagascar in the XVth century by the first Arabic migrants to retranscribe the Koran. It is still made to the same processes in Ambalavao.

Meet Catta Lemurs in Anja small Local Community Reserve at these huge granite rock foothill.

Picnic lunch at the reserve

We continue towards the southwest and enter Barâ region. We cross the largest plateau of Madagascar constituted by a beautiful herbaceous steppe, topped with huge termite nests: it is IHorombe. Arrival in the village of Ranohira which is the gate to Isalo massif and the National Park entrance.

Dinner and overnight in the hotel Jardin du Roy Your hotel in Ranohira

JARDIN DU ROY*** Introduction www.le jardinduroy.com Build close to one of the best Madagascar National Park, set in lush garden, the Jardin du Roy hotel offers you an architecture of noble stones in accordance with the natural spaces which Wellness confers the site where the peace, the serenity and the communion with the nature are at the heart Discover our massages, facials, scrubs or wraps. Treat your body to a relaxation treatment of the concept. with sweet and bewitching fruit and flavors. Sensuality and relaxation are waiting for Accommodation you to fully enjoy your stay in Isalo. The Jardin du Roy has 40 rooms: 16 double rooms, 16 triples and 8 family rooms, divided into 8

bungalows. With bath or shower in Italian, the rooms, very spacious, luminous and comfortable, Services are air-conditioned. They all enjoy a breathtaking view of a large park and the gallery forest where Luggage service available at the Front Office desk Guarded parking Baby-sitting and « flows the small river Soarano. Nature, calm, authenticity ... Baby Set » (chair and cradle) Library and board games Internet access and WIFI available from the lobby TV satellites with National and International channels (available at Le Restaurants Relais de La Reine lobby) Gaëtan offers a cuisine both European and Malagasy. It is based on fresh and seasonal from our organic farm that accompany Bara zebu, game and seafood. The original and careful presentation, the quality of the local products are the guarantee of a unique gastronomic Activities: experience. The breakfast on the terrace ... unforgettable! Billiard Table Red Clay Court (equipment supplied) Basket-ball Ground (equipment supplied) Hike path (path with road signs) Swimming Pool (1.50 meters depth and 20 Bar : On the terrace or around the fireplace, enjoy homemade cocktails, rums or natural fruit m long) Visit of the biological juices from our orchard. At your disposal: billiards, board games, high speed internet connection. Day 6. Isalo National Park - Tulear - Ifaty

Breakfast at the hotel.

A short drive to join Isalo foothill. We start the walk quietly with a small rucksack, through impressive landscape, canyons, natural pool and magic rock erosions. Isalo ruin form massif is a continental sandstone plateau from Jurassic era. This park has a different ecosystem, endemic rupicolous flora such as Aloe, Euphorbia, Pachypodium and Kalanchoe ...

A bath at the Natural Swimming Pool is a real pleasure.

We're back at the hotel for our lunch.

We progress to the south west, towards Mozambique Channel, a long drive from Ranohira to Tuléar, pass through several botanical landscapes. The sea is visible from far when about arriving in Tuléar. We join the beach in Ifaty.

Dinner and overnight in the hotel Les Dunes. Your hotel in Ifaty

DUNES D’IFATY*** www.lesdunesdifaty.com Introduction 27km north of Tulear, overlooking the Mozambique Channel, up the fishermen's Leisure and activities village Mangily, This charming hotel complex, with its 19 villas and 22 deluxe rooms, amidst a calm tropical park, Offers you the enjoyment of the lagoon, its large corral Free of charge : A large swimming pool, beach volley, bowling, library. reef and excursions into the famous Baobab forest. With supplement : mask and snorkel, whale expeditions, canoe trips, scuba diving, horseback Accommodation trips, visiting the forest, mountain biking, quads. 19 Villas Conceived for 2 persons,can accomodate up to 4 persons with additional beds Wellness Massages on request. 22 standards and luxes rooms 11 standard rooms and the upper 11 rooms conceived for 2 persons in a tropical Services Postage. Internet connexion. Room service.. park close to the swimming pool and the seafront. (In order to get further informations, please contact us by e-mail or a call) Restaurant The restaurant can accommodate up to 70 guests or more. , and Suggested menus: dinners are served there. Healthy , nicely presented, all in a musical and warm Breakfast: Hot drinks, natural fruit juice (fruits of the season), plate of seasonal fruits, pastries, atmosphere. , jam and honey, eggs and cornflakes. Bar Lunch: carpaccio de Mérou et sa tapenade - Steak de Capitaine sauté et riz blanc et rougail de The main bar is open from 10am to 14:30 and from 18h to 23h you will légumes - medley de fruits exotiques. discover its cocktails. The Filao Beach Bar, located at the waterfront is open Dinner : Rouleau de printemps Vezo - Plancha de Calamar et pommes de terre rissolées – Sorbet from 10 to 18, can accommodate 30 people. This bar offers snacks and a wide au citron de Madagascar. selection of refreshing beverages throughout the day. Day 7. Sailing with Vezo fishermen in Ifaty

After a tasty breakfast at the hotel, we navigate on Vezo outrigger canoes for an excursion around the famous Ifaty lagoon. We are here in the most beautiful lagoon of Madagascar. Delimited by the mouths of the Manombo and Fiherenana rivers, with a coral reef of more than 40 km, a lagoon 9 km wide in its belly, 2 large passes (south pass and pass north), and several "false" passes (be akio, false pass of Songoritelo, ...), shallow, with funds of sand, mud, corals, seagrass and, at both ends, mangroves .

Snorkeling on the “Massif des Roses".

Our crews leave us at the village of Ambolomailaka. We take time to stroll between the local houses.

Lunch at Hotel Bellevue

We visit the Reniala Botanical Garden at Mangily. Beautiful species of Baobabs and succulent plants.

In the evening, at the edge of the sea, on the white sand beach of Ifaty, around a big bonfire, we will make a barbecue party . Let’s savor the best seafood grill made in the Malagasy way,

Dinner and overnight in the hotel Les Dunes. Day 8. Ifaty - Tulear - Antananarivo Breakfast at the hotel. Morning at leisure to enjoy the beach and the pool. If some wish, possibility of a visit of the city of Tulear. Lunch at the hotel or in town.

Flight Tulear - Tana Arrival in Tana and visit the crafts market where you might be surprised of the high quality of local products, as embroidered table cloths and shirts, leathers, semi precious stones, chessboards and solitary games, as well as wooden or metal instruments and toys.

Transfer by bus to Antananarivo airport and formalities for the departure of international flight.

NB - The program of this day depends on domestic and international flights

Day 9. Arrival at destination Morning Lunch Afternoon Evening Overnight

Dinner at Day 1 Arrival in Tana Hotel Bois Vert Hotel Bois Vert

Drive Dinner Day 2 CSR at Ankizy Gasy Combava restaurant Plumeria Hotel to Antsirabe Plumeria Hotel

Drive to Ambositra Restaurant in Drive Dinner at Day 3 Setam Lodge Visit workshop Ambalavao to Ranomafana Setam Lodge

Visit Restaurant at Antemoro paper visit in Dinner Jardin du Day 4 Hotel Zomatel Ranomafana NP Thermal Hotel Ambalavao Roy

Drive to Ambalavao Picnic lunch Dinner Day 5 Drive to Ranohira Jardin du Roy Lemurs at Anja in the Reserve Jardin du Roy

Excursion Dinner Day 6 Lunch at the hotel Drive to Tulear Les Dunes d’Ifaty Isalo NP Les Dunes

Excursion with Lunch Visit Reniala Barbecue Day 7 Les Dunes d’Ifaty traditional Vezo pirogue at the restaurant Botanic garden at the beach Flight Morning at leisure Lunch Day 8 Tulear/Tana On board On board at the Hotel Connexion flight

Day 9 Arrival to destination Malagasy Tours works with the Malagasy craftsmen. Their production is completely local and rather eccentric going of the basketwork, the ironwork, the worked wood - sculptures and marquetry to semiprecious stones.

Nice Jewels such as rings, necklaces, bracelets, wooden earrings, metal, horn of zebu

Beautiful photography books about the country

Our propositions of teasers also turn to care products and essential oil. We so collaborate with Homeopharma, and BioAroma, Malagasy leaders of the natural products.

Spices and , with first of all the , are among Tee-shirt and shirts, beach dresses, pairs "highlights" of Madagascar. There are various attractive of shorts, sarongs can be bearing the packaging are available. initials with the logo of the company