Category: Tourism

Endemic plants of Madagascar

A SLIDESHOW 80 percent of the plants of Madagascar are unique to the Island. We invite you to visit this beautiful country with us.

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Aerial photos of the Baobab Avenue – a world heritage

A video of Cactus Tours Madagascar 

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Madagascar Birding Tours

Cactus Tours Madagascar is one of the few Malagasy tour companies, who are specialist in birdwatching in Madagascar. Cactus’ team is wide spread all over the Island and have strong and proven expertise in their own areas. While the normal birding season starts from September to mid-December, with our field team, that time frame can start from June due…

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Ethopian Airlines to fly to Madagascar

Ethopian Airlines will start connecting Madagascar from March 2017, according the Malagasy Civil Aviation. Cactus Tours’ guest will then be able to take advantage of this airlines and flights network. Ethopian Airlines is a member of the Star Alliance.  

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Tour review by K. Merkel

Welcome to our 2015 Madagascar Trip This page contains the pictures and videos we took on our 2015 trip to the unique island of Madagascar.  Keith had wanted to visit this island for a long time since it contains so much endemic flora and fauna, i.e., they exist nowhere else on earth.  The most notable…

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MADAGASCAR’S POLITICAL RECONCILATION ON TRACK

After a 5-year of political crisis with a serious impact to the local economy and social life of the Malagasy people, the political leaders of Madagascar have come to an agreement for reconciliation. As the old saying, the example comes from top above, the four former presidents and the actual president of Madagascar have been…

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Air Sheychelles flies to Antananarivo

Air Madagascars’ passengers now can fly Air Seychelles from Mahé to Antananarivo thanks to the code sharing agreements recently signed by the two companies. Air Seychelles uses an Airbus 320 and having two classing with a capacity of 136 seats. About Dhabi or Bombay might bee added to the network of Air Madagascar in the…

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Nosy Be is now a safe zone

Nosy Be has been removed from the orange zone by the Malagasy and French government. The peak tourism season is near and the hotels and lodges have received an increasing number of bookings. This is the result of the efforts of the government and the tourism operators as Nosy Be remains the main beach destination…

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MADAGASCAR… POST ELECTORAL SITUATION

Madagascar’s Special Electoral Court has promulgated the list of the elected parliament members on 6th February 2014. As per the Constitution of Madagascar, the new Prime Minister is to be appointed by the strongest party of the parliament. But due to the actual political situation, the trend is going against that fact  for a long…

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A NEW PROTECTED AREA AT AMPASINDAVA GALOKO KALOBINONO

The endemicity of Madagascar’s biodiversity is one of the world’s reference. Many protected areas have been set up for the conservation of the nature but also for the alleviation of the poverty. The Forestry and Environment Ministry of Madagascar with the supports of UNDP and Global Environment Fund promoted the projet called Managed Resources Protected…

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