40 Day Supported Cycle Trip Across all of Madagascar Top to Bottom (Route 1 - Remote Wild Wonders)
- Duration: 40 Days (approx.)
- Location: Diego suarez
- Product code: cyclemadagascarforreal
40 Day Supported Cycling Trip Across All Madagascar Tip to Toe (North to South)
This trip includes a team with a support SUV, medic, security, camping and kit quartermaster, satellite phone, guide, and team of tourism, wildlife, botanist, and security professionals, and even the camp setup ("glamp" but a tad rustic and ready for wilderness still...bicycles and backups (We include the motocross bikes or cycling bikes or you can bring your own)! You just show up and hit the road for the grand ride.
You will have everything included on this tour, turnkey. The tour will be flexible as to allow route changes but to eventually make it end to end. Please allow 2 months of time to cross Madagascar but we will endeavor to stick to the route. You will have a satellite phone, SAR and evac support, medical and security professionals along, route alternatives on tap to make it through and all the way, packs of electrolytes and protein snacks, all food and cooking included (and meals at the stated hotels when there,) as well as in the camp core tents and mats and accommodation, guides with knowledge of the Madagascar wilderness, fauna (yes - plenty of lemurs) and endemic plants (botanicals, not drugs.) - Anglophone of course.
We include the bikes or you can bring your own, and can liaise with any special zones or spots of interest to create a trip theme. This trip includes film, photography, and drone permits.
Working Itinerary
(this is definitely, and definitively, subject to change and improvisation)
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Day 0 (Touchdown!)
Fly into Diego-Suarez (we can also bring you here, included in the tour, from Nosy Be airport and island (NOS)
Allamanda Hotel
Day 1
General preparation, visiting les Tsingys Rouges, drive to campsite at start-point
Camping
S11° 57.350' E49° 14.773'
Day 2
Leg 1
Nature Lodge Joffreville
Day 3
Leg 2
Iharana Bush Camp
Day 4
Rest day: tour of Tsingys
Iharana Bush Camp
Day 5
Leg 3
Camp Tattersali
Day 6
Leg 4
Dream's Hotel
Day 7
Leg 5
Camping
S14° 30.795' E49° 51.039'
Day 8
Leg 6
Camping
S14° 42.684' E49° 32.137'
Day 9
Leg 7
Camping
S15° 02.154' E49° 11.427'
Day 10
Leg 8
Camping
S15° 25.467' E48° 46.714'
Day 11
Leg 9
Camping
S15° 59.589' E48° 49.804'
Day 12
Leg 10
Camping
S16° 31.865' E48° 44.866'
Day 13
Leg 11
Hotel Magic Andilamena
Day 14
Leg 12
Hotel Belle Rive
Day 15
Leg 13
Epi Hotel Nala
Day 16
Leg 14
Bezanozano Hotel Moramanga
Day 17
Leg 15
Camping
S19° 35.052' E48° 12.126'
Day 18
Leg 16
Camping
S20° 04.692' E48° 08.948'
Day 19
Leg 17
Camping
S20° 21.658' E48° 08.230'
Day 20
Leg 18
Camping
S20° 37.597' E48° 05.379'
Day 21
Leg 19
Camping
S20° 51.090' E48° 09.316'
Day 22
Leg 20
Camping
S21° 23.269' E48° 00.924'
Day 23
Leg 21
Centrest sejour Ranomafana
Day 24
Leg 22
Lac Hôtel
Day 25
Rest day: visit theicole / winery
Lac Hôtel
Day 26
Leg 23
Aux Bougainvillés
Day 27
Rest day: Soalandy Silkworm Workshop
Fabrique de Papier Antaimoro
Aux Bougainvillés
Day 28
Hiking Imarivolanitra Trai
Camping
Day 29
Hiking Imarivolanitra Trai
Tsarasoa
Day 30
Rest day: Zebu market, paragliding, miscellaneous activities at Tsarasoa
Tsarasoa
Day 31
Leg 24
Hotel Bienvenue
Day 32
Leg 25
Isalo Rock Lodge
Day 33
Day in Isalo
Isalo Rock Lodge
Day 34
Day in Isalo
Isalo Rock Lodge
Day 35
Leg 2
Camping
S23° 07.035' E44° 10.610'
Day 36
Leg 27
Camping
S23° 40.305' E44° 16.823'
Day 37
Leg 28
Camping
S24° 07.364' E43° 41.900'
Day 38
Leg 29
Camping
S24° 53.427' E44° 03.244'
Day 39
Leg 30
Camping
S25° 08.961' E44° 53.369'
Day 40
Leg 31 ENDPOINT
Camping
S25° 36.362' E45° 09.943'
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Notes: This trip requires physical and mental fitness, flexibility, patience, and sense of humour and a love of exploration and improvisational adventure. French is a plus but not necessary. We guarantee to get you tip to toe across Madagascar. If you decide to turn back and depart, there are no refunds, however we will get you to the bottom of the island, guaranteed. We include everything.Our ground teams have experience providing security from everyone from BP to USAID to Trump's wife to Toyota to the Prime Minister of Japan, and while super-elite private scouts and security would be astronomical in cost (though if you are keen, we can discuss their provision for 2 months,) we will have security pros drawn from HR pools of ex-mil and intel-rich locals with real experience and triangulation ability, especially for the Dahalo (bandit raiders) population in the south, which historically was the only problematically but not currently a grave situation.
We have some alt routes through the vanilla coast and down to the Pangalanes canal and throughput around Ramanofana rainforest into the south, but on the primary and backup route parallels can keep to the ground the entire time (though we'll go on some of the worst roads in Madagascar) as long as we circumvent most of Masaola (deep jungle) forest. Here are some examples of trips we've regularly run cargo and people on and are beginning to offer intrepid travelers more often, and we know a lot of ways to get through the north-south axis. We GUARANTEE you will make it to the bottom as long as you don't tire out and decide to give up.
The bike itin framed will need to allow about 2 months but we will include the accommodation and camping either way and try to stick to their pace and schedule. This trip requires physical and mental fitness, flexibility, patience, and sense of humor and a love of exploration and improvisational adventure.
A photographer can be along unless guests bring their own gear, and the trip includes film, photography, and drone permits.
We will have insurance and SAR/evac coverage, however, clients also need to get their own before the trip.
Kidnapping is not targeted to foreigners in Madagascar, but it can cover that as well. We've personally negotiated kidnapping and hostage situations within the island (not for tourists, for local businesses) and have direct experience with that as well.
Finally, as for bikes and kits, we import everything into NOS airport and include transfer to Diego, or into Diego if clients use a private plane to come into that city directly.
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