Duration
5 Days
Region
Southern Madagascar
Style
Wildlife & Photography
Pace
Easy to Moderate
Explore Berenty’s unique spiny forest
Berenty private Reserve is one of the places wild photographers come and visit. The site is very famous for the dancing Lemur_Sifaka, probably the one to easily get pictures of them walking on the ground. The Reserve also has different types of animals living in the spiny forest.
Tour highlights
Verreaux’s Sifaka & Dancing Lemurs
Birdwatching & Reptile Encounters
Spiny Forest Wildlife
Nahampoana Private Reserve
Your journey, at a glance.
Day 1 : Antananarivo – Taolagnaro – Berenty
Early flight to Taolagnaro then drive to Berenty. On the way, the scene amazingly changes: Within a few kilometres, the vegetation switches from tropical evergreen vegetation to a semi-arid type, typical of the South and South western part of Madagascar and which is dominated by different octopus tree species. Stop at Antanivinaky for the best view of this “extraterrestrial” vegetation.
Check in. Lunch at the restaurant of Berenty Lodge.
First forest walk in the afternoon. And evening walk in the spiny forest for nocturnal Lemurs and Chameleons sleeping.
Day 2 : Berenty
Breakfast then walk in the Gallery Forest to see the typical day Lemurs of Berenty with the main highlight-the Verreaux’s Sifaka and its funny sideway leaping while on the ground.
Here birds are many and easy to see.
Lunch then in the afternoon, walk in the spiny forest to look for more wildlife. Lemurs leaping safely on thorny branches, Madagascar Nightjar on its roosting spot, spider tortoise in its natural habitat, are present here. Some very fat but short Baobabs.
Evening walk in the gallery forest.
Day 3 : Berenty – Taolagnaro
After breakfast, a last walk in the Gallery Forest.
Lunch then drive back to Taolagnaro.
Check in. Dinner and night at the Lodge.
Day 4 : Taolagnaro – Nahampoana - Taolagnaro
After breakfast drive to Nahampoana Private Reserve. Walk around to see Lemurs; some of them spend time on trees whereas the ringtails stay more on the ground. Some types of the reptiles such as Chameleons and Snakes can also been met here. After a couple of hours of visit, drive back to Taolagnaro for lunch and have the rest of the day at leisure.
Day 5 : Taolagnaro – Antananarivo
Flight back to Antananarivo.