MADAGASCAR

Day 1: Europe – Antananarivo
Meeting at Ivato international airport and transfer to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel.
Accommodation at Residence Lapasoa (bed and breakfast) or similar

Day 2: Antananarivo – Andasibe (140 Km about 3,5 hour –drive)
After breakfast, drive east by car, through a landscape characterized by its nested rice fields and wooded hills. In Marozevo visit the Exotic Park (also called Peyrieras Park after its founder), where you can see many chameleons from close up, as well as butterflies, frogs and other amphibians. Then on to Andasibe, the place looks more like a poor wooden shack village, it is the starting point for the visit of the national park, the realm of the legendary Indris. Once the only hotel in Andasibe was in the mighty train station building with a few bungalows opposite on the hillside.  But in the course of the years, thanks to the visitors from all over the world, numerous new hotel complexes were opened, in which a lot of jobs were created. Possibility to walk with a local guide along the road near the National Park Perinet-Analamazaotra in search of nocturnal animals before dinner. With a little luck you will see wool and mouse makis, chameleons etc. Overnight stay at the hotel.
Accommodation at Sahatandra Hotel (bed and breakfast) or similar

Day 3: Andasibe
Morning visit to the reserve of Analamazaotra on the trail "Indri II" with search of the largest lemur species of the island with its distinctive calls, and other lemur species, but you can also find here various species of birds, chameleons etc. This hike lasts about three hours and leads on paths first in a gradient uphill, and is then mostly flat. After lunch visit of vakona private park and the village. 
Accommodation at Sahatandra Hotel (bed and breakfast) or similar

Day 4: Andasibe – Manambato - Akanin' ny nofy (125 km of ordinary road, then 7 km of earth road (about 4 to 5 hours drive in total), then about one and a half hours by boat on the canal)
Drive on the national road 2 about 113 km into the sugar cane and fruit growing area around Brickaville. After a few kilometres, the road turns right onto a 7 km long dirt road to the formerly busy holiday resort of Manambato. There we board a covered motorboat and transfer on the Pangalanes Canal (about 20 km) to the hotel in the middle of beautiful nature in Akanin'ny Nofy at Lake Ampitabe.  
By the way, the Pangalanes Canal is considered to be the second longest canal in the world. It is a continuous waterway of about 645 km in length, which leads from Tamatave, the northernmost end point, to the village of Farafangana in the south, running parallel to the Indian Ocean. The distance to the sea is sometimes only a few meters, at some points it also touches the sea, and therefore the water is slightly salty. During the colonial period, eight years of construction work created artificial connections between the naturally formed lakes and river courses, which are fed with water from wooded elevations. Artificially constructed branch canals were used to create connections to the nearest standing or flowing water sources. 
A nocturnal excursion is planned, partly by boat, in search of the rare and endangered Aye Aye lemurs (Daubentonia madagascariensis) with their unusual appearance. These strange lemurs have been settled on the island and are guarded around the clock. In the evening during the Aye Aye stalking, coconuts are clamped between two tree trunks, and one can watch how they are opened by this creatures with the beaver-like teeth and spooned out with the long middle finger.
Accommodation at Hotel Palmarium (bed and breakfast) or similar

Day 5:  Akanin' ny nofy – Tamatave - Antananarivo
After breakfast, visit of the private Palmarium Park with a great variety of lemurs during a hike lasting several hours, or you can explore the area by canoe or on foot.Then motor boat along the Pangalanes canal until Tamatave  Collect at the port and transfer to the airport for the evening flight back to Antananarivo. Pick up at the airport and transfer to the city. Overnight at the hotel
Accommodation at Residence Lapasoa (bed and breakfast) or similar

Day 6: Antananarivo - Europe
Depending on the departure time of your international flight, you may be able to visit the historical sites of Ambohimanga (UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001). It is the holy city of Merina, and was once the residence of the most powerful of all Merina princes, King Andrianampoinimerina. Until the conquest and final subjugation by the French in 1896, no foreigner was allowed to enter it. It had seven city gates, and the most powerful of them still serves as the entrance gate to the place today. Next to the gate there is a huge, smoothly polished and almost circular stone slab. In former times it was rolled every evening in front of the entrance gate. From the top of the "Blue Hill" - that is the translation of Ambohimanga – at 1468 meters of altitude, you have a beautiful view of Tana and the surrounding area.
Afterwards visit a market with Malagasy handicrafts to buy last souvenirs and, if the flight is late in the evening, day use of a room in the hotel. Afterwards transfer to the airport and check-in for departure for the flight home.

Includes:

• Transfers to and from airport
• Classic accommodation ( about 1 or 2 star hotels )  based on bed and breakfast  
• Transfer in the hotel-owned motor boat (there may be other passengers on board): Manambato- Akanin'ny Nofy -Tamatave
• Car with an English-speaking driver  from Antananarivo to Manambato
• Driver's indemnities and Fuel
• Entrance ticket at Exotic Park Marozevo, in Andasibe reserve and private park of Palmarium
• Excursion to spot the Aye Aye 
• Service of local guide in Andasibe
• Visit of the handicraft market and the historical site of Ambohimanga
• Tourist levy and VAT

Excludes:

• International flights and their airport taxes 
• Domestic flights with airport taxes Tamatave – Antananarivo around 175 to 200 Euro per person depending on the booking class and season
• Visa fee (35 € for stay up to 30 days)
• all other meals and drinks
• water sports, diving, excursions on Sainte Marie island
• Personal expenditures
• Personal insurance for eventualities like accidents, theft or damage to luggage, cancellation etc