Travel Plans October 2011

Airport transfer Paris

Paris-Charles de Gaulle - Paris-Orly
Air France Bus - all 30 minutes 05:55 to 21:00 and all 45 minutes until 22h30, €19

Terminal 1: Exit 32 on the Arrivals level
Terminal 2A-2C: Entrance C2
Terminal 2D-2B: Entrance B1
Terminal 2E-2F: Gallery level, Entrance 3
Terminal 2G: this terminal is linked to Terminal 2C (Entrance 4) by the free N2 shuttle bus (every 6 minutes, journey time 15 minutes)
Terminal 3: get off at Terminal 1 and take the free CDGVAL shuttle train to the Terminal 3 stop.

Paris Orly - Paris
Air France Bus to metro station Montparnasse/Invalides/Etoile (centre) - all 20 minutes 06:00 to 22:20, €11.50

Orly Bus to metro station Place Denfert-Rochereau - all 15- 20 minutes, journey time 30 minutes, €6.90 (Forfait Navigo zones 1-4 accepted)

RATP Bus 183 to Porte de Choisy - all 30 minutes, journey time 40 minutes, €1.90 (Forfait Navigo zone 4 accepted)

RATP Bus 285 to metro station Villejuif Louis Aragon - all 30 minutes, journey time 15 minutes, €1.90 (Forfait Navigo zone 4 accepted)

Paris - Paris Charles de Gaulle
Air France Bus Line 2 from Place de l'Etoile (1, Avenue Carnot, Charles de Gaulle Etoile metro station) or Porte Maillot (Boulevard Gouvion St Cyr, Porte Maillot metro station) - all 20 minutes 06:00 to 22:00, €15

Air France Bus Line 4 from Gare Montparnasse (Rue du commandant Mouchotte, Gare Montparnasse metro station) or Gare de Lyon (20 bis boulevard Diderot, Gare de Lyon metro station) - all 30 minutes 06:00 to 21:30, €16.50

RER B train from Denfert-Rochereau (35 minutes), Saint-Michel-Notre-Dame (28 minutes), Gare du Nord(25 minutes). A free CDGVal LRT shuttle connects the stations with the airport terminals. All 10-15 minutes on weekdays. €9.10 (Forfait Navigo zones 1-5 accepted). Sometimes it is not easy to recognize which RER trains go to the airport and which turn off towards another destination once outside the city limits. You must be careful to get on the right train and it is usually prudent to ask somebody at the station which train is the correct one.

English sites with good information

Micheline Train

The train leaves Tana every Saturday and returns from Andasibe every Sunday.
Tana - Andasibe: 22nd October, 8am till noon
Andasibe - Tana: 23rd October, 2pm till 6pm

East of Tana along the RN2 direction Tamatave

Manjakandriana

located 48km from Tana
Manja Hotel with basic rooms
bank, hospital
road splits to Mantasoa and Lake Mantasoa

Mantasoa

means “is pleasant even raw”
located 65km from Tana (about 3 hours, 1,5 hours from the road to Tana)
on the shore of the artificial Lake Mantasoa (suitable for swimming, water sports, fishing)
Jean Laborde
very nice walking area
various hotels
www.mantasoa.com in French
www.travel2mada.com

Mandraka Park

located 61km from Tana
Malagasy-run wooden bungalows
popular amongst locals from Tana
hiking
22 431 27 mandrakapark@moov.mg

Madagascar Exotic

also called Mandraka Reptile Farm
located 72km from Tana
small zoo with reptiles, crocodiles, butterflies, mammals
pets live in not so good conditions
restaurant, mid-range en-suite rooms
opening times: 7am - 5pm, entrance fee 10,000 Ariary, guide 2,000 Ariary for zoo, guide 6,000 Airary zoo and lemurs
22 321 01 or 032 04 108 87

Moramanga

means "cheap mangoes"
taxi-brousse from Tana (5,000 Ariary) takes about 3 hours
train leaves on Monday and Thursday direction Tamatave and returns on Wednesday and Saturday
several hotels and restaurants, bank, post-office, internet-cafes
attractions include a mausoleum and police museum (police history, guns, cannons, murder weapons)
roads split to the north direction Lake Alaotra (RN44)

Andasibe

about 3,5 hours from Tana and 2km from RN2
recommended to take the taxi-brousse from Tana to Moramanga (5,000 Ariary) and from there to Andasibe
train from Moramanga takes 45 minutes (1,800 Ariary)
small village, except a post office is nothing there (no bank, no internet)
several hotels from low to high end

Andasibe-Mantadia National Park

Analamazaotra Forest and Mantadia form the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park
believed to be Madagascar's most popular reserve
open from 6am to 4pm
entrance fee 10,000 Ariary, guides start at 15,000 Ariary (hours)
Association Mitsinjo (NGO) takes care of some of the Analamazaotra Forest - visits at a lower price than national park
offer canopy tour via sliding between platforms constructed high in tree
open from 7am to 5pm and 6.30pm to 9pm
entrance fee including guide starting at 30,000 Ariary (2 hours)
56 832 33 or 033 14 474 89 and mitsinjo@hotmail.com
http://sites.google.com/site/mitsinjo/home
Mitsinjo office on the left, thereafter park entrance to the right