Top 8 Budget-friendly Things to do in Toliara Province, Madagascar

May 7, 2022 Layne Dawes

The Toliara Province (formerly Toliary or Tuléar) is a former province of Madagascar with an area of 161,405 square kilometres (62,319 sq mi). It had a population of 2,229,550 (July, 2001). Its capital was Toliara. Near Toliara was the "spiny forest".
Restaurants in Toliara Province

1. Lokaro Beach

Tolanaro Madagascar http://www.lavasoa.com/fr/camp-pirate
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5.0 based on 56 reviews

Lokaro Beach

2. Isalo National Park

Isalo Madagascar +261 33 49 402 36 http://parcs-madagascar.com/aire-prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9e/parc-national-isalo
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4.5 based on 647 reviews

Isalo National Park

Distinguished by a canyon and beautiful, rolling plains, the Parc National de Isalo is an attractive reserve of Madagascar's land and wildlife.

Reviewed By PeterE5 - Sydney, Australia

I spent 3 days in Isalo National Park and loved it. Although it's rainy season here this area is relatively dry and a good place to go at this time of year. It is difficult to get to sites and trailheads without transport, and the access roads are poor, but I managed to join another traveller with a vehicle, making things much easier. I am sure my experience was made much better by my guide Sandra. Sandra is a local Ranohira woman, has 3 years experience as a guide, has recently completed her tourism degree and speaks excellent English, as well as French and Malagasy. There are over 100 guides for the park, but only 5 females. So just in the interests of advancing women in Madagascar I would recommend hiring a woman, but Sandra was excellent. The guide rates are set at 120,000 ariary for full day, or 80,000 for half day. You can hire a guide at the guides office, across from the National Parks office, or they may approach you first. The Fenetre (Window) of Isalo is a unusual rock formation and great place for sunset - you need a vehicle to get there. My first hike was to the Piscine Naturelle, then we crossed within a wide canyon to Namaza camp site where there were lemurs and many birds, and then up the gorge to Piscine Bleu and Piscine Noire with waterfalls and beautiful natural swimming pools. Beautiful! My second hike was to Canyon des Makis and Canyon de Rates (but no rats!). They are two beautiful gorges. We were the only ones hiking there that day. I thoroughly recommend the Park and these hikes.

3. Avenue of the Baobabs

8 Rt, Morondava 619 Madagascar
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4.5 based on 752 reviews

Avenue of the Baobabs

Reviewed By Mikiduta - Bucharest, Romania

We have been to The Avenue twice, both at sunset and sunrise. Being low season not too many tourists were around at sunset (around 40-50) while at sunrise which was happening at 5 am we were just a few (around 10 probably). The baobabs are amazing trees that can survive without water for a long period of time. During December they had a lot of leaves because one week before it rained. The weather was great when we visited the avenue so both sunset and sunrise were spectacular. During sunset there were plenty of mosquitos around while during sunrise the flies took the places of mosquitos. Sunset was really great and we have stayed also after the sunset to take pictures during the blue hour. The sunrise was also spectacular but totally different mainly before the appearance of the sun when a mix of orange, red and dark blue was taking our pictures to another level. I am really happy that we have visited Madagascar during December because we had good weather and almost no tourists around us. Special thanks to Cactus Madagascar which organized very professionally our tour!

4. Reserve Reniala

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4.5 based on 120 reviews

Reserve Reniala

Guided tours through our nature patch interpretation in the forest of baobabs are organized to tell a wider audience the remarkable forms of trees Delonix, Pachypodium, Baobab ("dwarf", " rhinoceros "," twins "," giant ": more than 13 m circumference), Givotia, etc ...

5. Antsokay Arboretum

Rn7, Toliara 601 Madagascar +261 34 07 600 15 [email protected] http://www.antsokayarboretum.org
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4.5 based on 153 reviews

Antsokay Arboretum

The Antsokay arboretum is a botanic garden with a collection of over 900 plant species from the southwest of Madagascar, 90% are endemic to the region and 80% have medicinal properties. Among these many succulent species are recognized as endangered.Visit also include opportunity to see creatures you can see no where else in the world. Not just chameleons, boas, tenrecs or birds but also other endemics such as the mouse lemurs which are the main night visit attraction of the arboretum.

Reviewed By marcdejong99 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Great garden with 900 species of endemic trees and plants! Beautiful and very warm;-)! Great guide which explains all varieties of different species like baobab and elephant trees and more. Also saw small snake, several geckoes, birds, small and large lizards. Nice small pool and restaurant at site.

6. Nahampoana Reserve

Nahampohana, Tolanaro 614 Madagascar http://www.nahampoana.com/
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4.5 based on 103 reviews

Nahampoana Reserve

7. Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park

Rn-7, Sakaraha 620 Madagascar +261 33 12 325 64 http://www.zombitse.de/de/index.htm
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4.5 based on 37 reviews

Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park

Reviewed By mawe733

This is a small park just by the RN7 15km or so north of Sakaraha. We had stayed in Sakaraha (Hotel Palace, booked via their Facebook page, cheap but really not that great) and made our way here for an early start at 7.30. We had one guide and one tracker who were both very good and we saw various species of sportive lemurs and a family of Verreaux's sifakas who were quite close and happy to be photographed. We also saw a number of very pretty birds, unfortunately I know nothing about birds which this park is said to be particularly good for. We went at the end of August and bugs as mentioned by other reviewers weren't an issue at all for us. We spent about 2.5 hours here, staying a good while taking photographs with each sighting though so you can do it in less time.

8. Kirindy Forest Morondava Madagascar

117 BP Tsimahavaobe, Morondava 619 Madagascar +261 20 95 938 11 http://www.kirindyforest.com
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4.0 based on 192 reviews

Kirindy Forest Morondava Madagascar

Reviewed By shiraziwine - Shiraz, Iran

Need to mention that there are two parks named “ Kirindy” in Morondava One is “kirindy Mitea national park”, this park really does not worth a visit AT ALL, IT IS WASTE OF TIME. During my visit i saw just two parrots and one snake. Thats all The office of this park is located in Belo sur mer village just right next to the church. The second park is “Kirindy Forest” which you can visit with Avenue of Baobabs in one day. This park is amazing and we saw many kind of birds and Lemurs just in our 2 hours walking. Our guide was also a perfect man. You can book a tour via your hotel I highly recommend this park

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