Cycle Madagascar - Highlands to

Cycle Madagascar - Highlands to Overview

This cycling holiday in Madagascar includes the island's best-known national parks, time off the bike for hiking, riding through incredible landscapes and R&R beside the Indian Ocean.

Madagascar is the fourth biggest island in the world; it’s as big as France! It’s also incredibly diverse and unspoiled, with an incredible cultural mix, fantastically varied landscape and some of the most unusual plant and animal species. The island is famous for its lemurs (found nowhere else on Earth) and for stately baobab trees, but there are also hundreds of types of colourful birds, chameleons and even turtles. All of this rich variety will be presented to us as we cycle southwards from the capital, Antananarivo (locally known as ‘Tana’) to the south-east corner of the island, where we spend 2 days at leisure at a laid-back beach resort beside the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. Our journey takes us to some of Madagascar’s best-known national parks; Ranomafana, Andringitra and Isalo and we make the most of each of these by getting off our bikes and doing some hiking. At Ranomafana, we will be on the look-out for lemurs, whilst at Andringitra it is the towering granite cliffs which will perhaps make the biggest impression. At Isalo, we will explore amongst forest and bizarre rock formations and take a dip in a beautiful river pool known as the ‘Piscine (swimming pool) Naturelle’. We have split this classic journey into a mix of vehicle transfers and manageable cycling stages, mostly riding on tarmac roads, but with some long sections of dirt road, too. As a fitting conclusion to this unforgettable cycling holiday, we have 2 full days at Ifaty on the Indian Ocean where you can choose to do as little as you wish from your beach-front accommodation. This just might be… biking in paradise!