Madagascar travel trip to Andasibe-Toamasina-Sainte Marie with local tour guide operator Rijatours

EAST COAST DESTINATION TO ANDASIBE - TOAMASINA - SAINTE MARIE - WHALE

Strong points:
- The slow metamorphosis of the landscape
- Andasibe, the most attended Protected Areas of Madagasikara
- Toamasina, an economic lung under the holidays' atmosphere
- Mahambo, in a bosky bower,
- Sainte Marie, a Garden-Island

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DAY 1

Antananarivo

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DAY 2

Antananarivo - Andasibe

At the km No 60, the junction towards Mantasoa is once level with the Ambatolaona village, both historical and famous place of interest. But we continue on the trunk road up to the top of the Gorges of Mandraka. The old forest of the Highlands and tropical one of the East join here. The twist road literally plunges in a magnificent decoration. At the km No 115, Moramanga is as well a road crossroads as a historical city of the struggle for independence. Andasibe is at 30 km from there. We settle in the 'Feon' Ala' Hotel in middle of the forest.

DAY 3

Andasibe - Toamasina

Visit of well-laid-out National Park with its pedestrian path system, its Interpretation Center, its picnic areas. Big chameleons, birds, lemurs (of which the biggest is Indri, easy to locate by its impressive cries) characterize its fauna, while its vegetation is composed of all the elements of the wet tropical forest (epiphyt orchids, ferns, lichens, sacred lianas...). Continuation towards Toamasina at the beginning of afternoon.

DAY 4

Toamasina - Mahambo

The trees of the traveler (Ravinala) are increasingly getting present, and the habitat uses the plants more and more. A very local colour passage through Antsapanana at the km No 216, a street-village with on both sides of the trunk road, dried bananas� wrapped in their sheets and tropical fruits are displayed. At the beginning of evening, arrival in Toamasina, and night in a hotel choosen by the client.

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Toamasina

In Toamasina, we pass without transition from the broad shaded avenues of palms and flamboyants to the traditional districts or� the pockets of creole architecture. Free morning for the walks by rickshaw or trishaw, the visit of the bazaar, and a good meal under the sign of the seafood. After the lunch, departure for Mahambo.

DAY 5

Mahambo - Soanierana Ivong - Sainte Marie

On the road of Mahambo, one moment of stopping is not impossible in Foulpointe, preferred seaside resort of Toamasina people with its lagoon with turquoises water! Mahambo is at 95 km in the North of Toamasina. It is a representative village of the Betsimisaraka country at the bottom of a bay bordered by a thick vegetation. Bathes, outing by dugout, stroll in forest, such is the program-type of an idyllic stay at Mahambo. Night at the Gite or the Récif hotel, or the Pirogue one and early in the morning departure for Soanierana Ivongo, home port of the high-speed motorboats for Sainte Marie.

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Sainte Marie

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