Private Tour
Available languages
11 hours
Mobile ticket
This is the best tour in Madagascar for a full day of highlights and photogenic settings you've probably seen in travel books all your life: Kirindy Park and Baobab Avenue. All transport between sites is in a well-appointed vehicle, usually an SUV. During your 8-hours between the two parks, you will see the otherworldly trees, beach vistas, wildlife parks, and bizarre deserts and vegetation that make Mada Earth's Most Unique Island. Save money and time and see everything here in one great and memorable day out with this tour! The drive to and from the park lasts approximately 1.5 hours each way.
Specialized infant seats are available
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Minimum age is 4 years
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
National Park fees
All taxes, fees and handling charges
Lunch
Hotel pickup
All transport between sites in a well-appointed vehicle, usually an SUV
Fuel surcharge
Hotel dropoff
Gratuities
We leave early around 7:30am-7:45am from your chosen Morondava hotel to visit the wildlife and wilderness in the forest of Kirindy. Arriving in the forest, we make a 4-hour visit to admire the fauna and flora typical of the rich remote reserve. We move by vehicle and by foot to spot the endemic animals and plants of Kirindy, from the large cats ("fossa") that prey on lemurs throughout Madagascar, to the spiny and strange plants that look dropped out of Dr. Seuss into the desert landscape. The animals here are 80% only-on-Madagascar endemics or endangered, and your guide will explain the ecological history of the area. The Kirindy Reserve is a dry forest. In the reserve, there are many birds, fossas, lemurs, and sifaka. We can find young rosewood, one of the precious woods in Madagascar that is today under perilous illegal export to China and undergoing massive illegal logging on the opposite side of the island. Up to 4-hours are spent exploring the forest, driving and walking among natural spotting or scenic spots. We stop for a 90-minute break for lunch (at your own expense) in a pleasant setting in Kirindy at Camps Amoreux, or if closed for the day, the Relais de Kirindy or Kirindy Park restaurant. This is one of the more remote, but pleasant places, to have a bite in Mada, smack in the middle of a remote national park. After lunch, we head to the legendary Baobab Avenue's main and famous corridor, to admire the ancient and bizarre trees you've seen in books about Madagascar. We drive through the alley to different views and clusters of hundreds of otherworldly trees that cultures from Madagascar and even around the world find sacred. Moving on to visit the often-painted and carved "baobabs in love" (Baobab Lovers) the iconic 2 trees twined in an embrace, and then end on the far stretch of the alley of the baobabs which are an iconic image of Madagascar. We admire the sunset in this beautiful alley adorned by giant centennial trees. We spend a total of about 2.5 hours transitting by vehicle between the different corners of Baobab Avenue. Finally, we return to Morondava after one of the most photogenic sunsets you can ever get, anywhere! We arrive back at your hotel after the photogenic sunset at the alley at around 7:30pm.
Solo travelers
Pickup included
2 or more people
Pickup included
6 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Jose G,
Oct 30, 2024
- Viator
Long, hot, super bumpy road tour but in the end, it was really worth it. Kirindy was hot and the road to get there was crazy bumpy all the way, nonstop, up and down. We got to see the baobab avenue twice, on the way to kirindy and at sunset. Our tour was excellent and our guide Feena (I don’t know how to spell his name) was amazing, caring and updated us about the program, things we may want to look, take pictures of, he was very attentive and I really appreciated his care.
Alexei C,
Aug 22, 2024
- Viator
The tour was excellent! Guide was not professional but good driver and good person! Baobabs and lemurs you can see on this tour
Nida A,
Jul 15, 2024
- Viator
What an incredible day! Avenue of the Baobabs is incredible both during the daylight and at sunset when it’s a bit more busy. It’s no secret that this iconic part of Madagascar boasts incredible sunset visuals. The road to Kirindy is long and not well kept, but in Kirindy we were able to see the Fossa, many lemurs, chameleons and multiple species of birds. I think it’s worth the money to not have to navigate the road. Had a wonderful guide named Andu. He was patient, made stops whenever we needed, allowed us to stay a little late after sunset at the Ave, and dropped us off at a Malagasy restaurant he recommended close to our hotel.
Marta D,
May 14, 2024
- Viator
The guide, Theo, is very nice and helpful, but I think it would be better just renting a hotel close to the park and do the same tour during the day. Moreover, I believe that if you stay in the hotel, you can also do tour at night and see different animals. Anyway, no complaints at all concerning this tour.
Operated by MTT Madagascar Travel and Tours