Other facilities offered at the property include meeting facilities and laundry facilities.

Highlights on this tour are spiny bush plants including the unique cactus-like Didiereaceae; strange Triangulated Palms, bloated Pachypodiums and carnivorous Pitcher Plants; tree ferns, Aloes and Euphorbias.

We will also see a host of orchids, including the famous Comet Orchid.

It took with it a vast menagerie of animals and plants which over countless millennia have evolved in almost complete isolation, so much so that today over 80 of all life forms here are found nowhere else on the planet.

We travel around the island in a sequence of internal flights and road transfers and it can be a challenging experience, but the rewards are enormous.

The National Parks and private reserves that feature in our tour are among the finest in the world and are home to a simply bewildering array of flora and fauna.

Among the other highlights are spiny bush plants including the unique cactus-like didiereaceae; strange triangulated palms, bloated pachypodiums and carnivorous Pitcher Plants; tree ferns, aloes and euphorbias.

We will also see a host of orchids, including the famous comet orchid, which should be in flower at this time of year.

In addition to the familiar ring-tailed lemur we can hope to see Sanfords brown lemur, nocturnal mouse lemurs, and Indri, largest of all the lemurs with a haunting, whale-like call.

Among the other creatures that may cross our path are geckos, chameleons and a wonderful selection of rare birds.

Please bear in mind that all visits inside the reserves are on foot.

Flight schedules for internal flights are subject to change which may affect the itinerary.

On arrival, we will drive to our accommodation at the Mantasaly Resort in Diego Suarez Antsiranana.

Here, we take a walk along the Three Bays (Bay of Sakalava, Bay of Pigeons and Bay of Dunes), bordered by a turquoise sea and white sand.

The track runs alongside an endemic forest of baobabs and ends at the majestic entrance to the Diego Bay Pass.

We will also visit the lighthouse and the old French military installations.

You can also enjoy regional dishes at the on-site restaurant or a drink at the bar.

With a maximum altitude of 1475m, this area of former volcanic activity is like a green oasis in the centre of the desert, a real paradise for botanists, with much of the flora and fauna of Montagne dAmbre being locally endemic.

This is the wettest part of Madagascar with an average rainfall of 3585mm, so the park is filled with rivers and lakes, torrents and waterfalls.

We have a good chance of seeing Sanfords brown lemur and the amazing, camouflaged Leaf-tailed gecko, uroplatus fimbriatus, on this walk, as well as a view of the Antomboka waterfall.

One even has a few orchids nestling in the crown (angraecum praestans a.

Other pachycaul plants to be found include adansonia madagascariensis, pachypodium rutembergianum, p.

This has the longest spur of any orchid, which as Charles Darwin correctly predicted is pollinated by a moth with a 30 cm-long tongue, xanthopan morgani praedicta.

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