This proposition is ideal for people who do not have a lot of time, however they want to see what is obligatory in West of Madagascar. According to your taste, your time and\or your ideas, you can obviously change it as all our tours can be modified...
We can make your reservation in the suggested hotels.


Itinerary : Morondava - Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park - Kirindy nature reserve - Baobabs avenue - Visit of a fishermen's village - Morondava  / 6 days

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Program :

Our guide, Vévé or his colleague can pick you up at the airport and drive you to your hotel. If your flight arrives enough early, you can leave towards the national park directly.




Suggestion
- Hotel Bougainvilliers in Morondava, cca. 20 euros/room of 2-3 beds
- suggested restaurant by the guide

Programs
- Pick-up at the aéroport/hotel in Morondava, journey until Belo sur Tsiribihina. On the road of cca. 100 km long you can see the life of local people, ox carts, ox herds. Just before Belo, it is necessary to take a ferry for crossing the Tsiribihina river, the "river which you should not cross " in Malagasy.
- To Belo, there is a market.

Remark
- The proposed restaurant in Belo sur Tsiribihina is excellent, you won't regret, just watch out for the crocodile which is in its cage some meters from your table !
- More photos about the hotel and the coast of Morondava, also about Belo are on the page of tour 1.
- The journey is tiring with the jeep on a sandy road with enormous holes. And next day it will be the same.  

Hotel Bougainvilliers in Morondava - we recomend it to you !

Near the market in Belo

Programs
- You continue the journey (140 km) upto Manambolo river, take the ferry and you find Bekopaka on the other side, the village of the door of the national park.
- If you arrive enough early, you visit the small Tsingy in the first day. If not, description for the 2nd day below: 
- The 2nd day you fetch at first your official guide of the park, then you visit the grand Tsingy. There will be three "chapters": you begin at the low level between rocks and tree roots, you observe the vegetation and the huge snails (Tropidophora Cuvierana) which exists only here, you squeeze yourself through a tight rift between two cliffs, you visit a cave and you are rising little by little by walking sharp and pointed stones.
- You pass into the second "chapter" where it is necessary to rise more in higher by the help of two cords, attached to a strong safety metal wire. There are stairs which are well built by rocks, but if you have too much dizziness, do not turn and look behind. Then you must cross a suspension bridge, if you make it, you won, you can pass in the belvedere where the panorama is not comparable to what you ever saw in your life before !
- In the 3rd "chapter" you cross the forest and with a bit of luck you can perceive a chameleon or diurnal lémurs, as the sifaka or the red-fronted lemur, it is possible also to see a Malagasy mongoose and of course, birds.
- Lunch is on a rock by eating your sandwich which Vévé prepared.
- Still in the same day, when you return to Bekopaka, the other side of the village you continue to the small Tsingy. The same story in small. You try to finish in the belvedere at the time of the sunset, I hope it is not going to become too banal for you !

Remarque
- Accomodation is in a camping in a tent, showers and toilets are clean, there are wall-sockets to charge your batteries, electricity works in certain hours as everywhere in this region.
- More photos on the page of the tour 1 !

The grand Tsingy

Suggestion
- the same restaurant in Belo for lunch, just like on the way to the Tsingy

Programs
- You wake up early, as usually, because you travel, travel and still travel... You are obliged to return on the same road, crossing two rivers, having lunch in Belo and then you arrive exhausted in the nature reserve of Kirindy.
- But the day is not finished, we hope that you arrive to this subtropical dry broadleaf forest before night because in that case you can have a chance to see a fossa. If not, you will see the next day around the camp. You settle down in your bungalow, then...
-...you leave to a night-expedition. You watch for some night-animals with a professional guide of the reserve. If you are lucky and you have good eyes, you can find a mini maki of 9 cm, more professionally said : a Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur or rather Microcebus Berthae. 

Remarks
- Better if you bring a torch with yourself in case if the guide has no more.
- The bungalow is charming, on the other hand it is equipped only with toilet in outhouse without sit. If you have no water in the shower, it happens in a certain time, know that you are in the middle of a forest, there is nothing to do. But no panic please, the next day you are going to have a bit of luxury : warm water and sweethome kind wc !!! On the other hand, there is a restaurant in Kirindy where you can buy bottled water or even a Coke.- More photos on the page of the tour 1 !

Accomodation in Kirindy

Night expedition in Kirindy

Suggestions
- Hotel Bougainvilliers in Morondava, cca. 20 euros/room of 2-3 beds
- suggested restaurant by Vévé in Morondava for the diner

Programs
- Have a tour in the forest of Kirindy as in the previous evening, but diurnal at this time. Fossa and lemurs are in the menu.
- You will have a quiet trip towards the Baobabs avenue because you have time until the sunset for what you wait. But first you go to visit the lover baobabs, you are wondering on seeing the local people passing with their ox cart, you can taste a baobab fruit and you can meditate on the idea how it is possible to be so lucky beeing in this corner of the World. And at sunset you will have a special moment in this mysterious and spiritual place.
- At your arrival to Morondava, you are some meters from the sea!

Remark
- More photos on the page of the tour 1 !

Fossa in Kirindy

Sunset on the Baobabs avenue

View from the terrace of the restaurant of Hotel Bougainvilliers

Suggestions
- Hotel Bougainvilliers just as usual
- the same restaurant as usual

Programs
- The village is situated on a sand bank surrounded with mangrove swamp and with the sea at high tide. The visit can be made according to the water level, in the morning or in the afternoon.
- At the arrival to the village, Vévé buys one hen and coconuts picked freshly in front of you or carries other fruits, according to the season. The women of the village are going to prepare the meal.
- At the same time you walk up to the desert beach, it is just your partners, the fine white sand, the sea, the wind and you what exist. Jean-Claude, Vévé and the kids of the village are going to prepare coconuts to let you taste its juice and its delicious white "meat".
You bathe a little bit with some kind sharks (well, I am joking, I have never heard about accidents on this coast), then take a rest on the sand.
- Vévé gives sign when the meal is ready, you return to the village where the women serve you traditionally.
- Return to Morondava, rest on the coast, on the terrace of the hotel, meal in a suggested restaurant or somewhere else but mainly take a rest please because you have two days of return on 700 km.

Remarks
- "To serve the meal traditionally" means you will have a picnic on a tablecloth on the floor. There will be no knives, bring one with you if you want. 
- As I explained, the visiting hours depend on the tide, the fruits of the meal depend on the season...
- More photos on the page of the tour 1 ! 

Families from the village

Only the coast and you...

Tarifs :


350 euros/person (minimum 2 persons)

Payment :
- 70 euro in advance by cash, cheque or by bank transfer in Paris
- the rest should be payed by cash in the Antananarivo office

Including
- jeep with driver + fuel
- the accomodation in camping (tent) in Tsingy, bungalow in Kirindy
- entrance fee and guide in the Tsingy National Park
- entrance fee and guide in the Kirindy nature reserve
- the ferry x2 (two rivers must be crossed)

Excluding
- your consumptions (meals and drinks)
- your hotel in Morondava (our suggestion is here above !)

Remarks
- Please be so kind to read also the section "You must know" on the page of Tour 1. !