Accommodation
To ensure comfort, authenticity and the best possible experience for every journey, we carefully select accommodations across Madagascar.
This – 98% solar powered – lodge is situated close to Andringitra NP, Parc d’Anja and directly on the RN7. Betsileo Country Lodge is a beautiful spot on a hill overlooking mountains, rice fields and the local Betsileo life! The lodge offers beautifully decorated airy rooms with spectacular views on the mountains and fresh food from their colourful garden which you can enjoy after your adventurous walks.
Located halfway between Antananarivo and Toliara, it is also the perfect place for a lunch stop. Betsileo Country Lodge is the ideal base camp for all your adventures in and around Ambalavao.
Residence Madalief, a social and sustainable hotel on the highlands of Madagascar, opened its doors in 2010. A hotel with 13 comfortable rooms, it aimes to provide income for the NGO Stichting Madalief (www.madalief.nl or www.facebook.com/StichtingMadalief) and its projects, and to create jobs for the grownup children of the association. All benefits go directly to the projects in Antsirabe and Ambositra.
The hotel is found in a small forest at 7 km south of Antsirabe. Follow the Route Nationale 7 for 6 km southwards. On the crossing Andranonahoatra, follow the signs of ‘Pepiniere Ambatolahy’ to the left. After one kilometer on the dirt road you will find the sign of our Residence Madalief on your left, turn left and after 500 metres you will arrive at this heavenly place.
The Mangily Hotel Solidaire is a sustainable tourism initiative, priding itself on responsibility and solidarity, whose profits directly benefit the local community through various educational and environmental conservation projects of the Malagasy NGO Bel Avenir.
The hotel promotes alternative tourism based on sustainable tourism that respects the local cultures, that has an economic impact on the host community and that prioritizes the respect of the environment.
Respecting the environment being one of its priorities, Hotel Solidaire is particularly attentive to all concerns about its resource management. The hotel’s energy is produced through solar panels. A rigorous program of waste management is applied. Finally, to respond to the amount of CO2 emissions, the ONG Bel Avenir team rallies around the continuous restoration of the forest and for the regeneration of the mangroves around Mangily.
Tsarasoa Lodge in the Tsaranoro Valley
You are welcomed to Tsarasoa, in the heart of Sahanambo, where responsible travel and a deeply eco-conscious philosophy come together. This lodge sits at the foot of Mount Langela, overlooking Tsaranoro, on the western flank of the Andringitra Massif in Madagascar, 23° south of the equator.
The design of the lodge is refreshingly original. No sharp angles or geometric precision here; the buildings follow the natural curves of the landscape as closely as possible, honouring the principles of organic architecture. You are quite literally in the middle of ancient Gondwana.
The founder of Tsarasoa wanted to create a unique place with a positive ecological footprint, a place where you can truly unwind and disconnect from everyday life. Everything here runs on solar and wind energy, complemented by human effort. No humming generators. A kitchen fuelled mostly by wood and charcoal. A fully organic food production system that continues to expand. A well-established orchard. And a forest that grows larger year after year.
Villa Smith
Antsiranana, better known under its old French name Diego Suarez, is located at the northernmost tip of Madagascar. The city is situated on a beautiful 250 km² bay with white beaches where the waves of the turquoise-blue Indian Ocean run out. After the bay of Rio de Janeiro, it is the second largest natural bay in the world.
Actually it is not only one bay, it is composed of several smaller ones. The most famous one is Andovobazaha, because it lies directly in front of Diego Suarez. In the middle of the bay of Andovobazaha lies the ‘sugar loaf’ of Diego, a circular green island of volcanic origin.
Villa Smith (une maison creole) is a vacation rental on the main road that follows the shore of the bay. Set in a beatiful garden, Villa Smith has 4 en suite bedrooms. Apart from an inside kitchen and living room, it also features an outside dining terras and very a spacious outside kitchen. Right across the road, is the tranquil beach of Meva Plage.
