SPLENDID NORTH

Arrival in Nosy Be according to the flight schedule.

Transfer and accommodation at the hotel of your choice in Nosy Be

Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Nosy Be – Ankify: crossing about 30 minutes by boat.
Ankify – Ankarana: 150km – about 4 hours drive (track)

Transfer to the port of Hell-Ville.

Transfer by boat to Ankify and stard of the adventure in 4×4 to the North crossing a beautiful landscape of cocoa plantations, coffee and Ylang-ylang.

Stop in Ambanja for the visit of the MILLOT plantations that will allow us to have an idea of what we can see the process of cocoa bean processing at the workshop. On this former colonial plantation, we will discover the secrets of the preparation of the largest cocoa producers, a 100% natural and 100% organic world. The plantation was created by the settler Lucien Millot, for more than a century and maintains the centuries-old tradition of a rare “know-how” and appreciated by the largest chocolate factories in the world.

Lunch at the plantation. Continuation to Ankarana, arrival and installation at the hotel.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

NB : Millot plantation closed every Sunday and holidays

160km – about 4 hours drive (track)

Morning dedicated to the visit of Ankarana National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park covers an area of 18,000 hectares. It has a set of caves, underground rivers, canyons, Tsingy, dry and green forests. Its caves served as a refuge and necropolis for the Antakarana people, during the tribal war with King Radama I in the nineteenth century, and are currently natural sanctuaries of ancestral beliefs. The massif of Ankarana is the second place of Madagascar, after the reserve of Bemaraha (north of Morondava), where one can admire the Tsingy, karst formations with the astonishing vision, the hundreds of arrows and the limestone peaks projected towards the sky. In addition to these natural cathedrals, groundwater erosion has caused more than a hundred caves, where the kings and the Antakarana population, the ethnic group of this northern region, took refuge during the inter-ethnic tribal conflict. In some of them still lie the royal tombs, and the massif is still the subject of many ceremonies and “fady” (taboo).

The tour takes about 2 hours of walking in the penumbra of the park and later 2 hours under the sun, walking on the gray tsingy (the path requires a good balance) to reach the suspension bridge and refreshment area. Lunch at the hotel.

Continuation for Diego Suarez and installation at the hotel.

Dinner and overnihgt at the hotel.

Day tour

Breakfast. Morning dedicated to the visit of the National Park of the “Amber Mountain”, to the discovery of the natural beauties of the flora and fauna of Madagascar.

Living heart and real water reserve of northern Madagascar, the Amber Mountain is one of the oldest parks in Madagascar. This park located 30 km from the city of Antsiranana (Diego Suarez), is composed of a rainforest, overlooking a volcanic massif at 1475 meters above sea level. The park is easily accessible from Diego Suarez and Nosy Be. Seven species of lemurs, including the famous Eulemur Coronatus, and more than 75 species of birds, where the most famous is the Ibis Huppe. Attractions: waterfalls, exotic species, volcanic craters…. Located at an altitude between 850 meters and 1475 meters, this old park was created in 1995, and is the source of water for the northern region of Madagascar. The park has always been considered a sacred place for the people of Diego Suarez. The mountain of Amber is comparable to the forests of the East of the island, with its thousand species of plants, its botanical garden, its waterfalls and the delicate games of the sun, between the ferns arborescent, the mountains of Amber are a bit like the «emerald forest» of the North. Lunch at local restaurant.

In the afternoon, departure for the excursion in the large bay of Diego Suarez meeting on the course of beautiful beaches, viewpoints, characteristic fishing villages. Among a vegetation composed mainly of low shrubs, some baobabs, casuarina, after about an hour of interesting course, we will arrive at the beautiful beach of Sakalava, beaten by strong winds and paradise of surfers. Continuing on the track, you will meet the Bay of Pigeons and the Bay of Dunes which offer a beautiful scenery on the Indian Ocean and some small islands.

Continuing, we will meet the beach of Orangea; possibility to swim in the crystal clear and quiet waters and resume the path to the lighthouse and the characteristic fishing village of Ramena.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel

160km – about 5 hours drive (track)

Breakfast. Departure for the visit of the «Tsingy rouge», spectacular limestone barriers carved by rain and wind, with red steel tops. We will travel a stretch of road of about an hour to the village of Sahafary, then we will change direction towards the coast overlooking the Indian Ocean where the alluvial plain of Irodo is. Continuing on a dirt track, you will arrive in a valley where a geological phenomenon has created in a very suggestive landscape limestone pinnacles (tsingy) that rise from the ground and are colored in different shades of red.

Lunch at local restaurant. Transfer to Ambilobe and installation at the hotel.

Dinner and obernight at the hotel.

110km – about 3 hours drive (track)

Ankify – Nosy Be: Crossing about 45 minutes

Breakfast. Departure to Ankify through a beautiful landscape of cocoa plantations, coffee and Ylang-ylang. Transfer by boat to the port of Hellville.

Free sea stay and hotels to choose from :

NOSY BE
NOSY SAKATIA
NOSY IRANJA
NOSY KOMBA
ANKAZOBERAVINA