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Welcome!   Madagascar Great Island Adventure Safaris is a Madagascar tour service operating exclusively in Madagascar. We plan your tour specifically to suit your individual interests, needs and personal requirements, and then travel with you during your entire tour of Madagascar.


GREAT ISLAND AVENTURE SAFARIS is a registered and privately owned local tour company based in Antananarivo. It was established after a 14 years of experience guiding variety of tours throughout the country, from popular sites to very remote areas. With our extensive knowledge in natural history, and experience in adventure safari tours, we organize for you guided tours in safe hands of professional Malagasy naturalist tour guides and associates, while you have the opportunity to explore our unique Madagascar wildlife, and the real Malagasy culture. Where, you can have personal interactions with local people.

We excel at birding tours, trekking and at “off the beaten track” trips where it offers a memorable wilderness experience safari trips.

Apart of transfers and excursions, we organize diverse tours throughout the country with a wide range of choice, featuring in package tours and tailor-made itineraries, with a large variety of special interest tours, for individuals, families and group travel.

GIAS focuses on good quality.



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ITINERARIES

We provide tailor-made tours suitable for your interest, budget and aptitude.

We specialize in birding tours, and can also offer visitors a wide variety of tours:

  • Lemur Watching
  • Whale Watching
  • Wildlife Watching
  • Trekking from 3 days to a couple of weeks
  • River boat trip
  • Canoeing
  • Bush camping
  • Adventurous and “Off beaten track trips”
  • Cultural Tours
  • Beach holidays, Snorkelling and Diving tours
  • Photographic tours

We can offer any trip suitable for your chosen route and for all preferred destinations. It can be planned for 1 week or for up to 1 month. To take maximum care of our clients, we plan our trip for individuals and small groups (maximum 10 people).

TOUR GUIDES

Our tours are conducted by well trained Malagasy naturalist tour guides, which have good knowledge of their own environment and have excellent experience in adventurous tours. They speak French, Spanish, English, and Malagasy local language and some dialects.

Why Visit Madagascar?

Female brown lemur
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Female brown lemur

Madagascar is a mini-continent containing everything but with a difference. So that travelling within Madagascar becomes less confusing to the first time visitor, we have divided the island into areas explained by following the link called Regions.

The island's amazing biodiversity includes:


Why Have a Personalised Madagascar Tour Guide?

A local guide will tailor your trip to your needs and make sure everything runs smoothly. For example:


Introducing Bakoly...

Hi, this is me, Bakoly, guiding
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Hi, this is me, Bakoly, guiding
Hi! I am known as Bakoly because my real name is Bakoly Voahangy Razanamiarantsoa. I operate Madagascar Great Island Adventure Safaris. I am also what is known in Madagascar as an Escort Guide. That is, I am a native Malagasy female professional naturalist tour guide, with 14 years travel experience within my country. I speak English, French and Spanish.

Of course I also speak my own Malagasy plus some other dialects, which allows me to have a good relationship with park guides, local guides and porters and other people living in the very remote areas we visit. Your Escort Guide, escorts you on your entire trip during your stay in Madagascar.

So, welcome to my website and please let me guide you through my wonderful Island by first clicking on all the blue 'links'. Perhaps then you may be inspired to visit, and allow us to guide you through Madagascar personally!