Returns to Morondava by the same road.
3 daysfrom €495 pp
Tsingy Weekend
Morondava · Kirindy · Bekopaka
Three days, two nights: the baobabs, Kirindy Forest and the Petit Tsingy. The shortest way to touch the stone forest.
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Tsingywhere one cannot walk barefoot
The stone forest, with someone who grew up beside it
Private journeys to Tsingy de Bemaraha and across Madagascar, planned and guided by Astani Aristide Ringo of Belo sur Tsiribihina.
Tongasoawelcome
Welcome. I am Astani.
I was born in Belo sur Tsiribihina, on the river everyone crosses on the way to the Tsingy. I have guided for ten plus years — first for other agencies, now for myself. I know which ferry leaves when, which lodge cooks well, and which stretch of road is worth the hours and which is not. I will personally develop your itinerary, arrange your transport & stay, welcome you at the airport, and be your local guide.
Astani Aristide Ringo
Founder & lead guide · 10+ years in the field
Mora moraslowly, slowly
Six signature tours
Led by Astani Aristide RingoFounder & lead guide · 10+ years in the field
6 daysfrom €795 pp
Tsingy Express
Morondava · Bekopaka · Manambolo · Kirindy
Six days, five nights: both Tsingy circuits, the Manambolo gorge by pirogue, a Kirindy night walk and the baobabs at sunset.
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Tsingy, Kivalo or Betania
Morondava · Bekopaka · Kirindy · Betania · Kivalo
Seven days, six nights: the Tsingy and Kirindy route, plus a pirogue to the Vezo fishing villages of Betania or Kivalo.
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Bemaraha & Belo sur Mer
Morondava · Bekopaka · Kirindy · Belo sur Mer
Eleven days, ten nights: the Tsingy, Kirindy and the baobabs, then the sandy track south to the dhow builders of Belo sur Mer.
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River, Tsingy & Menabe
Antananarivo · Miandrivazo · Tsiribihina · Bekopaka · Kirindy · Betania
Thirteen days, twelve nights: the highlands, three days down the Tsiribihina with sandbank camps, the Tsingy, Kirindy and Betania.
View journeyThe hop from Toliara to Morondava is flown.
14 daysfrom €1,995 pp
Grand Madagascar
Andasibe · Antsirabe · Ranomafana · Isalo · Morondava · Bekopaka
Fourteen days, thirteen nights: Andasibe's indri, the highlands, Ranomafana, Isalo, then Morondava and the Grand Tsingy.
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Every journey can be tailored around these experiences, or built entirely around yours.
The Grand Tsingy circuit
May to November
The Petit Tsingy
May to November
Manambolo river gorge
May to November
The Tsiribihina river descent
May to November
Lemur watching and night walks
Year-round; best April to November
THE INDRI OF ANDASIBEPORTRAIT · 4/5activity-andasibe-indri.webp The indri of Andasibe
Year-round; indri call best in the dry months
Fihavananakinship, the bond between people
Why travel with us
Born on the road to the Tsingy
Belo sur Tsiribihina is my home town. Every traveller heading to Bekopaka passes through it, and I have lived beside that river crossing my whole life.
Ten years on the circuits
I have walked the Grand and Petit Tsingy circuits for ten years, in every month the park is open, in heat and after rain.
Private trips only
Never a coach group. Two people, a family, a few friends. We leave when you are ready and we stop where you want to stop.
You book directly with me
No foreign middleman and no call centre. The person answering your message is the person who will be with you on the rock, and the money stays in Madagascar.
An island that evolved alone
Madagascar broke away from the rest of Gondwana around eighty-eight million years ago and has been on its own ever since. Around nine in ten of the species here live nowhere else. The people came later, by sea, from Borneo and from the African mainland, and the west where I live is Sakalava country.
A guide to the island
Tell me what you have in mind
A rough month and a rough idea is enough to start. I will write back with what is realistic.