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Bien Tsingy ExpeditionBelo sur Tsiribihina, Madagascar

Tsingywhere one cannot walk barefoot

The stone forest, with someone who grew up beside it

Private journeys to Tsingy de Bemaraha and across Madagascar, planned and guided by Astani Ringo of Belo sur Tsiribihina.

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Astani Ringo standing on the limestone at Tsingy de Bemaraha, looking towards the camera

Tongasoawelcome

Welcome. I am Astani.

I was born in Belo sur Tsiribihina, on the river everyone crosses on the way to the Tsingy. I have guided for ten years — first for other agencies, now for myself. I know which ferry leaves when, which lodge cooks well, and which stretch of road is worth the hours and which is not. When you write to this site, I am the one who reads it, and I am the one who meets you at the airport.

Astani Ringo

Guide, Belo sur Tsiribihina

Fihavananakinship, the bond between people

Why travel with us

  • Born on the road to the Tsingy

    Belo sur Tsiribihina is my home town. Every traveller heading to Bekopaka passes through it, and I have lived beside that river crossing my whole life.

  • Ten years on the circuits

    I have walked the Grand and Petit Tsingy circuits for ten years, in every month the park is open, in heat and after rain.

  • Private trips only

    Never a coach group. Two people, a family, a few friends. We leave when you are ready and we stop where you want to stop.

  • You book directly with me

    No foreign middleman and no call centre. The person answering your message is the person who will be with you on the rock, and the money stays in Madagascar.

Mora moraslowly, slowly

Journeys to begin with

All six journeys
Relief map of Madagascar showing the route of Tsingy Express: Morondava, Avenue of the Baobabs, Belo sur Tsiribihina, Bekopaka · Tsingy de Bemaraha.AnkaranaNosy BeMarojejyMasoalaSainte-MarieAndasibeKirindy ForestRanomafanaIsaloIfaty reef1 Morondava2 Avenue of the Baobabs3 Belo sur Tsiribihina4 Bekopaka · Tsingy
By roadOvernight or visit

Returns to Morondava by the same road.

4 daysfrom €595 pp

Tsingy Express

Morondava · Belo sur Tsiribihina · Bekopaka

The shortest honest way to see the stone forest. Two ferry crossings, a full day inside the park, and the baobabs at sunset on the way back.

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Relief map of Madagascar showing the route of Stone, River and Forest: Morondava, Belo sur Tsiribihina, Bekopaka · Tsingy de Bemaraha, Manambolo gorge, Kirindy Forest, Avenue of the Baobabs.AnkaranaNosy BeMarojejyMasoalaSainte-MarieRanomafanaIsaloIfaty reef1 Morondava2 Belo sur Tsiribihina3 Bekopaka · Tsingy4 Manambolo gorge5 Kirindy Forest6 Avenue of the Baobabs
By roadBy riverOvernight or visit
6 daysfrom €895 pp

Stone, River and Forest

Morondava · Belo sur Tsiribihina · Bekopaka · Kirindy

The Tsingy without rushing, plus the Manambolo river gorge and a night in Kirindy looking for fossa. The trip I recommend most often.

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Relief map of Madagascar showing the route of Down the Tsiribihina: Antananarivo, Antsirabe, Miandrivazo, Tsiribihina river camps, Belo sur Tsiribihina, Bekopaka · Tsingy de Bemaraha, Morondava.AnkaranaNosy BeMarojejyMasoalaSainte-MarieRanomafanaIsaloIfaty reef1 Antananarivo2 Antsirabe3 Miandrivazo4 Tsiribihina camps5 Belo sur Tsiribihina6 Bekopaka · Tsingy7 Morondava
By roadBy riverOvernight or visit
8 daysfrom €1,150 pp

Down the Tsiribihina

Antsirabe · Miandrivazo · Tsiribihina river · Belo · Bekopaka · Morondava

Three days drifting down the Tsiribihina by pirogue, camping on sandbanks, arriving at Belo by water — then on to the Tsingy.

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What you can do out here

All activities

An island that evolved alone

Madagascar broke away from the rest of Gondwana around eighty-eight million years ago and has been on its own ever since. Around nine in ten of the species here live nowhere else. The people came later, by sea, from Borneo and from the African mainland, and the west where I live is Sakalava country.

A guide to the island
The Tsiribihina river in late afternoon light, with red and yellow river boats moored on a sunlit sandbank below a forested ridge

Tell me what you have in mind

A rough month and a rough idea is enough to start. I will write back with what is realistic.

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