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ANTANANARIVO
- RANOMAFANA - ISALO - IFATY - TULEAR - ANTANANARIVO
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The
adventure, the discovery, the emotions, you can live
all those feelings during this circuit through the South
of Madagascar. Mainly done by car (4WD vehicle), the
trip includes the visit of towns like Antsirabe, Fianarantsoa,
Tuléar and Fort Dauphin.
By
its name, this circuit is mostly focused on areas in
Madagascar which are rich in precious and semi-precious
stones. However, the cultural tourism is also one of
the great interest of this tour by permitting you the
encounter with the Betsileo people ; Fianarantsoa, the
Zafimaniry people and their distinctive craftsmen's
poducts, the Mahafaly and their ancestral customs, Tuléar
and its multicultural races (Vezo, Mahalafy, Antandroy,
etc) The discovery of many workshops, the visit of specific
manufactures like the "anteimoro" paper manufacture,
etc.
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Of
course, this circuit also satisfies your thirst to discover
the natural fauna and flora by visiting three of the most
famous reserve in Madagascar :
Ranomafana, Isalo and Amboasary, and especially Andoahela
near Fort Dauphin.
ANTSIRABE's
town is known by the presence of its several hot springs and
its clever craftsmen who shape the precious and semi precious
stones into internationally famous gems. Even only those two
aspects are already worth the visit in Ansirabe.
The large avenues, the palace of "Hotel des thermes"
where King HASSAN II lived during his exile, with its colonial
architecture and its nice gardens, the colonial houses and
especially the numerous rick wheels, all of this constitute
the charm in Antsirabe. On the way to FIANARANTSOA, the stop
in Ambositra allows the tourists to appreciate the Zafimaniry's
ancestral art through the visit of sculpture workshop and
the "marquetteries". The town of Ambositra is known
as the capital of wood art but this area is also rich of history
past and few traces still exist scattered through the region.
The Antefy mount (1845 m high) offers you a splendid panoramic
view of terrace rice fields and plains. Then, the visit of
Ranomafana reserve and its hydropathic establishment is an
opportunity for you to discover few endemic plants and particular
animal species.
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Your
next stop is the great ISALO
area with the visit of the National Park where you can
appreciate the particular specificity of the relief with
its sandstone massif that was eroded through the centuries.
The results are the impressive canyons and the unusual
peaks which altittude vary from 515 m to 1268m. The fauna
and flora are well adapted to this rough relief and the
tourist attractions are numerous like the natural carved
stone known as the "Queen of Isalo",
the natural swimming-pool, the natural window of Isalo,
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Of
course, you can also meet some lemurs like the "maki".
TULEAR
is the place where the word multicultural is well suited because
of the many races you can meet there as the Vezo, the Masikoro,
the Mahafaly, the Antandroy and others.
The
three museums (South Malagasy Arts and Traditions Museum,
Tuléar University Museum and the Ocean Museum) are
the opportunity to do unusual encounter with the Coelacanthe
(the oldest living fish) and the famous Aepyornis eggs (giant
eggs from a particular ostrich that used to live in Madagascar).
From Tuléar, your escapade to Ifaty allows you to take
advantage of seeing the lagoon, the coral reef, the natural
aquarium and its many fish species, an enchanted atmosphere
and an enchanted site.
Program
of the trip
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