Madagascar 2015

Sling Madagascar Tour 2015 will be our next adventure with The Airplane Factory, crossing the Mozambique channel probably from Vilanculos, Mozambique to Toliara, southern Madagascar and then routing northwards for Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar. September (next year provisionally) seems the best month to visit with lower rainfall and cooler temperatures.. 

There are plenty of airfields and good weather this time of the year.

What you guys think? James from The Airplane Factory is keen to join us and make this an official tour.

Baobab trees in Madagascar

The route from either Inhambane or Vilanculos, Mozambique could take one over Europa Island in the Mozambique channel landing at either Toliara Airport in southern Madagascar, or Morombe Airport slightly north of that.

Toliara Airport (green plane) is west of Vilanculos (Mozambique) - it is a narrower part of the ocean gap between Africa and Madagascar but not the narrowest. To close the gap one would have to travel much further north which would be too far to travel for the sake of a narrower gap and the weather is better in the south, away from the tropical storms of the north.

Lemurs on Madagascar island. 

 Madagascar is an island running north to south crossing several lines of lattitude and therefore experiencing different weather zones from the more tropical in the north to the drier regions of the south. The east coast is exposed to the open ocean and the weather can be more wild with cyclones on the rainy seasons, whilst the west coast is sheltered in the Mozambique channel and experiences milder weather. In the middle in the upper half of the country are the highlands and rainforest with one of the world's most divers animal life.