Day Four and Five

We wake up at 8 in the morning to catch our flight to Maroantsetra at 2 P.M. and be able to stop by a place in Tamatave. We have breakfast, check out of the Hotel Neptune, and get into a car to go to the Parc Ivoloina. Pac Ivoloina is a unique animal rehabilitation center and zoo. They help endangered, hurt animals get healthy and release them back into the wild. If the animals cannot be released into the wild for some reason, they keep them in their zoo and take care of them. At about 12 P.M., we leave the Pac Ivoloina and drive to the airport where we can catch our flight to Maroantsetra. We go through customs and everything and get ready to go to Maroantsetra. On the plane, we catch up on some sleep and by the time we wake up, we are just about to arrive to Maroantsetra (about a 2 hour flight). We get off the flight, go through customs again, and go to the Masoala Peninsula. The Masoala Peninsula is a great rain forest. There are a lot of naturalists and wildlife enthusiasts there. When we get there, we get to go on an afternoon river trip through the private reserve of Androfita, which was very relaxing and fascinating. We check in for two nights at the Relais du Masoala. It is beautiful there because the hotel overlooks the Bay of Antongil. The next day after breakfast, we get a full day trip to the tiny island of Mangabe. Nosy Mangabe is a natural reserve and sanctuary to the world’s rarest lemur, the Aye Aye. After the trip to Mangabe, we go back to the hotel, eat dinner, and go to sleep.