Solidarity travel to discover the great south

Antananarivo «the city of thousand»

Depending on your arrival at Ivato Airport, you will be met by our driver-guide who will take you to your hotel. If you arrive during the day, you will be welcomed in our premises for the presentation of the trip then, installation and night at your hotel.

Accommodation: Standard Hotel
Meals included

A day with our partner "AINA Association"

For a first day on Malagasy soil, with your driver, we take you to discover the Association Aïna which aims to «reinvent the life of these children and mothers deprived by helping them to build a future». You will have lunch on the spot with the children and mothers. In the afternoon, visit the city, its markets, as well as the royal palace if the weather allows. End of day and night at your hotel.

Accommodation: Standard Hotel
Meals included: Breakfast

The typical village of Ambatomanga

For this day, visit the small village of Ambatomanga «a typical village of the Highlands» in the east of the capital. Upon arrival, you are welcomed by the team of the Family House who then takes you to discover their income-generating activities (farm, cheese dairy, etc.). Lunch on site before the visit of weaving workshop with a village elder. The evening before dinner, we invite you to play Fanorona (a game typically Malagasy).

Accommodation: Guest house
Meals included: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Meet the artisans and blacksmiths of Ambatomanga

A half-day walk that takes you to the world of peasants of Ambatomanga. Free afternoon at your guest house and evening of sharing and exchange on the Famadihana. End of day and night on site.

Accommodation: Guest house
Meals included: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

From Ambatomanga to the village of Anjazafotsy

After breakfast, connection to the south of Madagascar to the village of Anjazafotsy. At the exit of the capital, we take you to discover the ironwork of Dieudonné and Violette… and its history. Along the way, visit the aluminium foundry workshop in Ambatolampy which makes us realize how hard the work is in Madagascar. Upon your arrival, you are welcomed by the members of the Loharanosoa association. Welcome evening with the villagers and night in a rural cottage.

Accommodation: Homestay
Meals included: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Activity days in Anjazafotsy

These two days will be devoted to an immersion in the village of Anjazafotsy.
Morning: Participation in a project defined by the association that meets the expectations of villagers for local development (creation or expansion of a school, project bringing drinking water, etc.) Part of the price of your trip will be dedicated to help the villagers in these projects.
Afternoon: participation in the daily activities of the villagers: according to the working season of the fields, fishing, cooking workshop, flour making workshop…
For the evening of day 6, evening of culinary exchange between travellers and villagers
For the evening of day 7, dance and traditional songs with the villagers

Accommodation: Homestay
Meals included: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Drive to Ranomafana National Park

Last breakfast in the village of Anjazafotsy and we drive back to Ranomafana. Along the way, stop at Ambositra, capital of the arts and wood sculptures, for a walk in the rice fields and a meeting with the artisans. Arrival in Ranomafana at the end of the day, installation and night on site.

Accommodation: Standard Hotel
Meals included: Breakfast

Ranomafana National Park (3 to 5 hours of easy walking) and Fianarantsoa

Morning awakening with the song of the birds to go and meet the first lemurs of this journey. Created in 1991, the park was included in the World Heritage Site of the Atsinanana Wetlands in 2007. A 3 to 5 hours’ walk allows you to discover several species of lemurs, birds and reptiles… In the afternoon, drive to Fianarantsoa and visit the old town before getting installed in your hotel.

Accommodation: Guest house

Meals included: Breakfast

Direction towards the ruiniform massif of the Isalo

After breakfast, we will take you to a street school run by the Vozama Association and Le Relais Madagascar where you will discover Malagasy cars and other solidarity activities. Then you take National 7 to the village of Ranohira. Along the way and to stretch your legs, we offer you a stop at the community reserve of Anjà, on the one hand to help the villagers to preserve this place and on the other hand to admire the Makiscatta in their natural environment. This reserve was used as a shelter for the Bara people in this area and many traditional tombs can be seen there. Arrival in Ranohira in the late afternoon, sunset on the window of the Isalo and night in your hotel.

Accommodation: Standard Hotel
Meals included: Breakfast

Visit of Isalo National Park

Day dedicated to the visit of the Isalo National Park. It presents many contrasts: sometimes canyons with dizzying walls, sometimes rocks with amazing shapes: a lion, a boot, a head, or a queen with her crown. The park is home to several species of lemurs, birds, reptiles, insects and amphibians, many of which are endemic. As for the flora, it is probably as varied as the various spaces that make up the Isalo: a dry and thorny forest, kilometers of savanna, then a lush vegetation. Do not forget to bring your swimsuit, the park also houses extraordinary natural pools.

Accommodation: Standard Hotel
Meals included: – Breakfast

From Ranohira to Sarodrano

A good breakfast before leaving the village of Ranohira towards the peninsula of Sarodrano. Along the way, you meet the miners of Ilakaka. Before arriving at your hotel in Sarodrano, we invite you to refresh yourself in the cave of Sarodrano. End of day and night on site.

Accommodation: Ecolodge
Meals included: Breakfast

Sarodrano, the magical peninsula and its villagers

Day dedicated to the meeting of the Vezo villagers who live here mainly fishing, initiation to their daily way of life. End of day and night at your hotel.

Accommodation: Ecolodge
Meals included: Breakfast

Relaxation at the Ecolodge

For the end of your tour, we have chosen the establishment « Ecolodge» because it is part of the process of a more sustainable tourism, limiting to the maximum the negative impacts of tourism. Want to rest: your hotel offers you a magnificent view of the sea so you can fully enjoy your day. Whether you want to take a stroll or go on an excursion, you can choose from a variety of activities: fishing, walking on the island of Nosy Ve, hiking on the cliffs of Barn hill, kitesurfing… end of day and night at your hotel.

Accommodation: Ecolodge
Meals included: Breakfast

Transfer back to Antananarivo

Depending on your flight, you will leave the village of Sarodrano to reach the airport of Tulear. Flight to the capital. Arrival on site, transfer to your hotel and overnight on site.

Accommodation: Standard Hotel
Meals included: Breakfast

End of your stay

And now your stay in Madagascar is coming to an end. An unforgettable adventure, new encounters, sharing… memories that will remain etched in your memory, a journey full of emotions!

Mealsi ncluded: Breakfast