SOME NOTICE ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE EXCURSIONS :

The departure of excursions can take place approximately 1 hour after the ship drawing alongside the quay.

Programs of " half - day " will generally allow the tourists to lunch on board ; and to anticipate 2 departures for an important number of participants to excursions : one in the morning and an other in the afternoon.

Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar is the first Malagasy tourist city not to be missed for a cruise by plane in Africa and the Indian Ocean. It can be proposed also to passengers of boat cruise between two stops to Malagasy ports

Diégo-Suarez : the visit of the National Park of the Mountain d' Ambre has always to be made in the morning to avoid annoyances of the rainy time, very frequent in the afternoon.

Fort-Dauphin : stop in roadstead - it is recommended to program the arrival time early in the morning, it means before 8h 00 a.m.. The landings of passengers expected for excursions have to be undertaken before 10h 00. Very frequent winds beyond 10h 00 will mortgage the day excursion (f. expl Berenty), and even may envolve the cancellation of the call in Fort-Dauphin.

For a best organization, the itinerary, the program and the timing will be arranged following the importance of participants number, the arrival and departure schedule of the boat.

The service of guidance also will be determined according to the dominant participant language, the final number of participants and types of vehicle to use, especially to Nosy Be, where the number of minibus and bus is enough restrained.

According to the duration of the shore excursion (full day or half day), a refreshment or a buffet lunch with as animation a folk spectacle could be proposed to clients.

A shop of souvenir articles, postcards and stamps will be put to tourists disposition to embellish the visit. Currencies as well the local currency are accepted.