After visiting Kirindy Forest, we hurried toward Mad Zébu, a highly regarded restaurant known for its refined French–Malagasy fusion cuisine. Considering its remote location, the quality of the food is remarkable, making it an essential lunch stop for travellers journeying between...
Kirindy Forest, also known as the Kirindy Private Reserve, lies about 2.5 hours from Morondava along a rough off-road RN8 track. This remarkable dry deciduous forest is considered one of the best places in Madagascar to spot the elusive fossa — the island’s largest predator — as well as...
After visiting Kivalo, we arrived just in time at the iconic Avenue of the Baobabs, a famous dirt road lined with nearly two dozen majestic Adansonia grandidieri trees, some more than 800 years old and reaching heights of up to 30 meters. These extraordinary baobabs are the last remnants...
Kivalo Soa Honko (“Kivalo with beautiful mangroves”) is a community-based ecotourism initiative located about an hour’s drive north of Morondava. Created to promote sustainable tourism and protect a 5,000-hectare mangrove ecosystem, the project was launched in 2018–2019 with support from...
Driving from Toliara to Morondava via Miandrivazo was a rugged two-day, 1,249 km adventure through Madagascar’s remote western region. The journey begins by heading north along the paved RN7 to Antsirabe, crossing the arid southern highlands with their wide savanna landscapes. From there...
Our long full-day journey from Toliara to Fianarantsoa — a 520-kilometre drive taking around 11.5 hours — began with a memorable stop at Arboretum d’Antsokay, a remarkable 40-hectare botanical garden located just 12 kilometres outside Toliara, near the Tropic of Capricorn. Before...
We spent the entire afternoon exploring the neighbouring fishing villages of Mangily and Ifaty, located around 30km north of Toliara on Madagascar’s southwest coast. Fringed by white sand beaches, coral reefs and the extraordinary spiny forest landscape, the area has become one of the...
Located near the coastal villages of Ifaty and Mangily, Reniala Reserve — also known as the Domergue Reserve — is a 60-hectare protected area preserving one of the last remaining sections of Madagascar’s ancient spiny forest. This extraordinary ecosystem exists nowhere else on Earth and...
The Toliara (Tuléar) region of southwestern Madagascar has long been shaped by salt. Thanks to its arid climate and endless sunshine — nearly 3,600 hours each year — the area has become one of the country’s most important centres of traditional salt production. It is no coincidence that...
Stretching for more than 450km along Madagascar’s southwest coast, the Great Reef is the fifth-largest coral reef system in the world and one of the country’s premier destinations for snorkelling, diving and whale watching. Its turquoise lagoons, vibrant coral gardens and rich...