Day 2: TANA – PERINET
Breakfast, drive down to the green East of Madagascar. Stop at MAROZEVO “PEYREIRAS AMPHIBIAN and REPTILE PARK”. Named after its founder, the botanist Andre PEYREIRAS, the park is the only authorized exporter of reptiles and amphibians in Madagascar. Here you will have the chance to encounter, touch, handle, to feel almost all the representative species of all Madagascar Chameleons. One of the only places where it is obvious to see the world’s biggest living Chameleon: Calumma parsonii. We will also have the opportunity to photograph the various butterflies, moths, bats, frogs, nil crocodiles that are staring over here.
Driving through the past called an eastern green forest, unfortunately becoming in the highland part into over desolated hills due to deforestation. The primary forest, over there before, left little by little the theatre to an ever-expanding secondary forest and “savika” vegetation. But this beautiful road will thankfully lead us to the up lightly protected area and forest range of Andasibe, mostly known as Perinet: a still-living symbol of the Madagascar evergreen east. Check-in.
Start to explore the wonders of Perinet. In the evening, you will be taken into the forest to seek the nocturnal species, which include the Eastern wooly lemur, sportive lemur, greater dwarf lemur, and rufous mouse lemur. This is the best time to spot the abundant chameleons and tree frogs.
Meal(s) included: Breakfast
Hotel: Andasibe Hotel