Antananarivo – Ankarafantsika

Through the northern highland we drive to Ankarafantsika national park. In this dry forest, you can find the rare Furcifer rhinoceratos. The females of this species are purple and orange coloured! The landscape here is quite amazing and offers one of our tour highlights in Ambalabongo canyon.

Ambanja – Ankify

After a long drive we arrive at the small town Antsohihy to stay one night. When the sun’s high above us the next day, we stop by at Ankaramibe, where the distribution area of panther chameleons starts. The colourful different localities of Djangoa and Ambanja are well known among herpetologists. In the late afternoon, we arrive in the idyllic village of Ankify right at the sea, from where we will start our boat trips.

Nosy Faly – Nosy Tanikely
We travel to the fisher island of Nosy Faly to look for panther chameleons and other reptiles. One day later, we visit the paradisic island of Nosy Tanikely to snorkel with sea turtles and gaze at the marvellous coral reef. If you’d like to relax under palm trees on the white sand beach or in the warm sea, you’ll have the opportunity to do so in Ankify, too.

Ambilobe – Ankarana

We drive on along the distribution area of the panther chameleons and pass Ambanja as well as Ambilobe. Everytime we see an interesting point to get a closer look to, we stop the cars and look for chameleons. From Ambilobe we do excursions to the Tsingys d’Ankarana (needle stone massives) and to the street between Ambilobe and Sirama. Especially the last one is world famous for its amazing colourful pantherchameleons.

Tsingy rouge – Montagne d’Ambre

Our 4x4s bring us to Amber Mountain. A short journey leads us to the Tsingy rouge, a unique sandstone formation, which is a perfect landscape motive. Then we arrive Amber Mountain and its amazing, unbelievable rainforests. Our tents stay in the middle of the rainforest and we got the next days to enjoy all the various animals. We hope to find Furcifer timoni and the similar looking Furcifer petteri – and of cause, many other gorgeous creatures.

Nosy Hara

From Amber Mountain we go by boat to the small island of Nosy Hara. Recently – in 2012 – the smallest reptile worldwide was discovered here, and we hope to have one of these rare lizards in front of our lens, too. This island is really rarely visited and we’re proud to be the first tour operator to travel there.

Diego Suarez – Ramena

Ramena is our last destination of this travel: A small coastal town, where we recover from this adventure trip and think about everything we experienced and what happened. After some days at the pool, we fly from Diego Suarez (Antsiranana) back to the capital Tana, and finally back home to Europe.

Group travels
We offer The Forgotten World as group travel on the following dates:
  22nd March to 12th April 2027 fully booked!
  01st to 23rd April 2028
This tour is only available as group travel. We thus offer it implicitly not as individual travel.