13-Day Madagascar's Wild Elegance Revealed

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Arrival into Antananarivo

Arrive in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, a city of layered hills, steep stairways, and colonial echoes. As dusk settles, the call of evening prayers mingles with the hum of motorbikes on cobbled lanes. This is Madagascar’s pulse, vibrant yet unhurried, historic yet alive.

Main Destination:

Antananarivo (City)

Accommodation:

Boutique Hôtel La Varangue

• Budget hotel located in Antananarivo (City)

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Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included)
• Drinks not included

Andasibe National Park

Journey east through highland rice terraces and village markets to Andasibe, where the rainforest begins to reclaim the earth. On your first evening, a guided night walk reveals the forest’s secret life: mouse lemurs, leaf-tailed geckos, and glowing fungi in the damp air.

The next day, step into Analamazoatra Reserve with your ranger. The call of the Indri, deep, resonant, unearthly, fills the morning air. Trails wind past orchids, lianas, and mossed trunks alive with movement. Every encounter reveals Madagascar’s singular biodiversity and the delicate balance that sustains it.

Before returning west, take one last forest walk in Mitsinjo, a community-managed reserve where conservation and local livelihoods intertwine. Look closely for the giraffe weevil, a tiny red-and-black marvel of evolution. After lunch, travel back to Antananarivo for the night.

Main Destination:

Andasibe-Mantadia National Park

Best Time To Visit April, May, October and November (Best weather, less rain)

High Season July, August and December holidays (The park is busy)

Best Weather April, May, October and November

Wildlife in Andasibe-Mantadia NP

Indri Common

Common
Brown Lemur Common

Other
Chameleons Common

Leaf-tailed
Geckos Common

Diademed Sifaka Occasional

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Red-bellied
Lemur Occasional

Grey
Bamboo Lemur Occasional

Mouse Lemurs Occasional

Sportive Lemurs Occasional

Parson's
Chameleon Occasional

Painted Mantella Occasional

Black-and-white
Ruffed Lemur Rare

Madagascar
Tree Boa Rare

Fossa Very Rare

Accommodation:

Manjarano Lodge

• Luxury lodge located inside Andasibe-Mantadia NP

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Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included)
• Drinks not included

Mandrare River, Ifotaka Region

Fly south by light aircraft to Ifotaka, where the landscape transforms into ochre earth and silver thorn. The Mandrare River winds through a region sacred to the Antandroy people. A place of vast skies, spiny forests, and deep cultural roots.

Night walks in the Zenavo Forest reveal the forest’s dual life as its diurnal lemurs settle into sleep, and nocturnal species stir beneath the stars. Days unfold with visits to the sacred gallery forest, encounters with Verreaux’s sifaka and ring-tailed lemurs, and quiet moments with local villagers whose ancestral tombs lie beneath the baobabs.

Your flight returns you to Antananarivo for the night, where you can wander the old upper town with a historian as colonial villas, stone staircases, and panoramic terraces reveal the city’s layered identity.

Main Destination:

Ifotaka Forest

Best Time To Visit April to November (Less rain and humidity)

High Season July to November (High-season rates apply)

Best Weather April to October

Wildlife in Ifotaka Forest

Ring-tailed
Lemur Abundant

Verreaux's Sifaka Common

Madagascar
Flying Fox Common

Three-eyed
Lizard Common

White-footed
Sportive Lemur Occasional

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Grey
Mouse Lemur Occasional

Grey-brown
Mouse Lemur Occasional

Warty
Chameleon Occasional

Jewel Chameleon Occasional

Big-headed Gecko Occasional

Plated Lizard Occasional

Madagascar
Hissing Cockroach Occasional

Lesser
Hedgehog Tenrec Rare

Mocqard's
Ground Gecko

Rare

Accommodation:

Mandrare River Camp

• Luxury tented camp located just outside Ifotaka Forest

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Namoraka Tsingy, Mahajanga Region

From Tana, fly north by light aircraft to Soalala, continuing by road through mango groves and fishing villages to the edge of Namoroka National Park. Few travellers ever reach this corner of Madagascar; its isolation has preserved both its wildness and its quiet. The tsingy formations rise like the ruins of a vanished city. Explore on foot with your guide, crossing natural bridges of stone, discovering ancient caves, and observing the park’s rare wildlife: fossa, Aye Aye, and Von der Decken’s sifaka. Each evening, as the sun sinks behind the limestone spires, the forest returns to shadow and birdsong. You return to Tana at the end of your final day, for one last night in the capital.

Main Destination:

Tsingy De Namoroka

Accommodation:

Namoroka Tsingy Camp

• Mid-range tented camp located less than 1hr drive from Tsingy de Namoroka

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Start your Journey Home

This journey through Madagascar is less an itinerary than an unfolding; from lush rainforest to ancient desert to sculpted stone. It invites you to pause, to listen, and to see the island not as a destination but as a living story.

For travellers drawn to depth, texture, and stillness, this is a rare privilege: private access to Madagascar’s most pristine ecosystems, insight into local culture, and a rhythm of travel guided by purpose rather than pace.

You leave not with a checklist, but with resonance: the Indri’s call lingering in your mind, the soft heat of the spiny forest still in your skin, the memory of a country that moves to its own timeless rhythm. Madagascar teaches that true travel is about presence, and the art of being quietly changed.

Main Destination:

Antananarivo (City)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Meals at own expense
• Drinks not included

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.