One of the strongest Madagascar products for travelers who already speak private reserve from southern Africa. Gallery forest and spiny thicket, ring-tailed lemurs and Verreaux’s sifaka, night walks for mouse lemurs, camps closer to a safari lodge than a backpacker trail. Heat and dry-country pacing are real — hydrate and protect midday. Anchors the longer 10-day private-reserve sample (from $17,795 pp).
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