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Madagascar Tours
Immersive expeditions into Madagascar's most remarkable wild places. Led by local experts, built for the curious traveller.
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Things to Do in Madagascar
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Makay Massif Expedition
Wade through Jurassic sandstone canyons in one of Earth's last unexplored wildernesses, where 83% of plant species exist nowhere else and new species are still being discovered. A 10 to 15-day expedition with satellite communication as your only link to the outside world.
Tsiribihina River Descent
Drift four days downstream through river gorges, baobab forest, and Sakalava villages on a traditional wooden pirogue with zero connectivity and sandbank camping under open skies. This is the journey to Tsingy de Bemaraha — and an expedition in its own right.
Vezo Fishing Village
Join semi-nomadic Vezo fishermen on traditional outrigger pirogues, learning to navigate by stars and water color along a coastline their communities have worked for centuries. Overnight in fishing villages accessible only by sea, where children free-dive from age five and rice is replaced by the ocean's daily catch.
Aye-Aye Night Tracking
Track the world's most elusive nocturnal primate through the forest with expert local guides — an animal so deeply feared in Malagasy culture that entire villages have been abandoned after one appeared. Finding one requires patience, darkness, and knowledge that no general tour operator carries.
Humpback Whale Research
Join Cétamada's research boats at Île Sainte-Marie during peak migration season, collecting behavioral data alongside marine biologists using hydrophones while hundreds of humpbacks breed in the narrow channel between the island and the mainland. This is active conservation participation, not whale watching.
SAVA Vanilla Expedition
Travel deep into the northeast's Vanilla Coast to hand-pollinate flowers on family smallholdings, cross rivers by dugout canoe to reach remote plantations, and trace the full supply chain of a crop that Madagascar supplies to 60% of the world. The story of how a 12-year-old enslaved boy's discovery in 1841 built an entire regional economy is told here, at its source.
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Where to Go in Madagascar
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Andasibe-Mantadia National Park
Home to Madagascar's largest lemur, the Indri, whose haunting whale-like songs echo through misty rainforests. This UNESCO World H...
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Masoala National Park
Madagascar's largest protected area encompassing 2,400 square kilometers of pristine rainforest, coral reefs, and coastal mangrove...
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Avenue of the Baobabs
Madagascar's most photographed location, featuring ancient baobab trees up to 800 years old lining a dusty road near Morondava. Th...
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Tsingy de Bemaraha
A UNESCO World Heritage site featuring razor-sharp limestone pinnacles called "tsingy" creating an otherworldly landscape of stone...
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Isalo National Park
A dramatic sandstone landscape of deep canyons, natural swimming pools, and unique rock formations reminiscent of the American Sou...
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Nosy Be
The "Big Island" perfume capital of the Indian Ocean, famous for ylang-ylang plantations that produce essential oils for internati...
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Ankarafantsika National Park
Madagascar's premier dry deciduous forest ecosystem, home to 8 lemur species including the endangered crowned sifaka and the noctu...
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Antananarivo
Madagascar's vibrant capital built on twelve hills, blending Malagasy tradition with French colonial architecture and modern Afric...
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Ranomafana National Park
A UNESCO World Heritage rainforest renowned for its natural hot springs and as the discovery site of the golden bamboo lemur in 19...
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Ifaty-Mangily
A unique ecosystem where the otherworldly spiny forests of southern Madagascar meet pristine coral reefs of the Mozambique Channel...