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...
After visiting Anja Reserve, we continued our adventure to the remote Tsaranoro Valley. The road was really bad and required a tough 4WD vehicle to access the valley via a rough, sandy dirt road branching about 30 km off the main RN7 south of Ambalavao. The approximately three-hour drive...
Early in the morning, we set off on an off-road drive from Turmi to Konso, following a rough gravel road with most sections under construction. We followed the dry Weyto River through the Weyto Valley, which is part of the Rift Valley. The river is prone to seasonal flooding and flows...
We arrived at Ngoma Ferry Port, where we met Paschal Phares, a renowned Ukerewe-based guide (100 USD/day), and then drove together for about 30 minutes to our parking spot next to the BM Beach Hotel. The next day, we had a full day of sightseeing around the island. We hired a tuk-tuk...
After yesterday’s unplanned off-roading around Bunda, we decided to take a bypass and drove to Ukerewe Island on Lake Victoria. We took a scenic one-hour drive from Bunda to Masahunga Ferry Port to catch the 15:00 ferry, but unfortunately, we missed it. The next was at 17:00, so we...
We left the border around lunchtime, and the plan was to drive as far as possible towards Serengeti NP. But thanks to an excellent algorithm in Google Maps, the navigation sent us to the region with rough, dirty roads between gold and diamond mines. It took us the whole afternoon to get...
We spent one day off-roading around the Broog Peninsula. Qatar has little altitude, which only exaggerates the tiny limestone escarpment of Bir Zekreet, on the northwestern coast of the peninsula, near Dukhan. The wind has carved away softer sedimentary rock, exposing pillars and a giant...