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Rainforest & Lemurs

After exploring Madagascar's busy capital, you head south through a land full of rice paddies and villages to walk around the spectacular flooded volcanic crater of Lake Tritriva. In Ranomafana National Park you'll take trails into the rainforest in search of lemurs and other wildlife and in the evening there is the chance to spot nocturnal animals on a night walk.

Trekking & National Parks

You spend two days trekking in the delightful Andringitra National Park which has a rich diversity of plant and animal life. Then heading into the desert-like south you'll wander into the rocky landscape and deep canyons of Isalo National Park; during your walk here you may encounter the ring-tailed lemur. Finally there is time to relax on the coast at Anakao before travelling to Perinet, home of the indri, largest of the lemur family.

Evolution at work

Madagascar is simply unique. The world's fourth largest island broke away from the African mainland roughly 125 million years ago. Its subsequent isolation has ensured the evolution of spectacular wildlife, the like of which is found nowhere else; the endearing lemurs, 800 species of butterfly and moth, half the world's species of chameleon, and an extraordinary variety of orchids.