THE NORTH, A AMAZING REGION

After a few hours' flight, you finally land in the capital.
On arrival you'll be met by your driver guide, who will take you directly to your hotel.
Rest of the day at leisure

32 KMS +/-30 min drive
Flight to Diego Suarez Welcome by your guide at the airport.
Drive and walk around the bay: the dune and pigeon bays.
Walk to Orangéa, along Ramena beach and the cliffs, the pass leading to the Indian Ocean is nearby. Walk to the lighthouse.
This is Cap Miné. A place steeped in history, where vestiges of the French presence are still visible. Free lunch on the beach, before returning to the hotel in the afternoon and a stop at the "Pain de Sucre".

32 KMS +/-30 min drive + crossing by motorboat or traditional pirogue
Route to Ramena, where we board a speedboat for the Emerald Sea. The immense bay of Diego Suarez is the emblematic site of Madagascar's northern tip. With its inland bays, it is one of the largest bays in the world, and for many, one of the most beautiful! We invite you to see for yourself. With the fishermen from the village of Ramena, we embark to sail along the bay, take the pass and head out into the Indian Ocean to the small islands not far away. Here, the sea is green and we call it emerald.
Back to the hotel in the afternoon.

Breakfast at the hotel.
Departure for the Montagne d'Ambre National Park. In the company of park guides, we hike through the lush forest. The park is home to exceptional vegetation, with tree ferns, palms, orchids and many exotic species, while beautiful avenues of conifers line the track leading to the forestry station. Waterfalls and crater lakes enhance our walk. And, of course, the Malagasy fauna with the friendly lemur. We meet the crowned lemur, the stanford's lemur. 7 species share the area. We also meet chameleons, gecko and uroplatus. In the afternoon, we return to the hotel.

140 KMS +/-5h
Breakfast at the hotel. By 4x4, we bypass the Montagne d'Ambre massif and head south. Between Diego and Nosy Be, we stop at 2 astonishing sites : the Tsingy Rouge: a dry riverbed and clay. The Ankarana: an ancient coral reef. And for both, water, wind and a lot of time, here's the result: astonishing sculptures, a limestone massif like a stone forest!
Arrive at hotel early afternoon.

We leave the hotel to visit the Ankarana massif, then discover the great Tsingy, and the caves (owls, crowned lemurs, mongooses, tenrecs, bats...). Lunch on your own. After lunch, drive to Ambanja. Arrive at your hotel at the end of the day and settle in.

Breakfast at the hotel
Departure from the hotel, this tour allows you to discover the Haut Sambirano and its immense cocoa plantations, rice fields and small villages. The economic lungs of the region, the river is also a water tower that irrigates the entire valley. We make a detour to Ambobaka, a village renowned for its traditional medicine. Here, a line of healers practise their ancestral knowledge using plants and various massage techniques.

Visit the medicinal plant garden in the company of the elders. Pirogue trip along the Ramena River. Picnic and swimming under the falls and in the basins of the Bons Pères waterfall. In the afternoon, return to the track via the Ambanja bridge to admire the colors of twilight on the Sambirano River.
Night at the hotel.

Drive to Ankify and embark for transfer by speedboat to Hell Ville, capital of Nosy Be.
Welcome by our local agent and transfer

From here, you'll be able to visit Nosy Tanikely: a real aquarium, visit the villages, and certainly meet the macaco lemurs who live behind the huts. If you like that.
Night at your hotel

Free stay

Free stay

After a final dive in Nosy Be, depending on Tsaradia's flight schedule, transfer to the airport for your flight to Antananarivo.

If we have time, you can stop off at the craft market for a spot of shopping. Transfer to the airport to catch your international flight.