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Diego Suarez to Nosy Be via Amber Mountain: 6-Day Plan You Can Actually Do
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The 6-day version for July: every day fits real transit, opening hours and daylight.
💡 Good to know for this plan
- ~11.3 hours of daylight in July.
- Supported dry-season window. Confirm the road transfer, both guided park visits, current road conditions and the daylight Ankify–Hell-Ville passenger crossing before travel.
- One leg of this route has no fixed timetable — departures are weather-dependent and arranged locally.
- Light days: day 4, day 6 have one stop and time left over. Local tours and day trips are the way to fill them — each day links to what is bookable in its own town.
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Day 1 Diego Suarez
- Transit
- none
- Finish
- ~15:00
- Temperature
- 19.7°C–26.3°C 💨
- Rainy days
- ~3
- Daylight
- 11.3h
Day 2 Around Diego Suarez
- Transit
- 1h27
- Finish
- ~16:50
- Temperature
- 19.7°C–26.3°C 💨
- Rainy days
- ~3
- Daylight
- 11.3h
Day 3 Ankarana & the Sambirano
- Transit
- 4h53
- Finish
- ~13:55
- Temperature
- 19.4°C–28.0°C
- Rainy days
- ~2
- Daylight
- 11.3h
Day 4 Around Ankarana & the Sambirano
- Transit
- none
- Finish
- ~13:00
- Temperature
- 19.4°C–28.0°C
- Rainy days
- ~2
- Daylight
- 11.3h
Time to spare on this day
One stop and a free afternoon. We don't book activities, but these partners do.
Day 5 Nosy Be
- Transit
- 3h00
- Finish
- ~16:00
- Temperature
- 22.7°C–27.0°C
- Rainy days
- ~1
- Daylight
- 11.3h
Day 6 Around Nosy Be
- Transit
- none
- Finish
- ~13:00
- Temperature
- 22.7°C–27.0°C
- Rainy days
- ~1
- Daylight
- 11.3h
Time to spare on this day
One stop and a free afternoon. We don't book activities, but these partners do.
🔍 Check before you book
Every stop is a real, sourced place, but opening hours change, roads close and businesses move. Check anything you're paying for before you book.
Sources (4)
- Wikivoyage — AntsirananaCC BY-SA 4.0 (facts extracted; prose not redistributed)
- Ankarana Special Reserve — parcs-madagascar.comOfficial park source; factual extraction and original paraphrase
- Lokobe National Park — parcs-madagascar.comOfficial park source; factual extraction and original paraphrase
- Hell-Ville market and Mont Passot circuit — madagascar-tourisme.comOfficial tourism source plus Wikivoyage discovery; factual extraction and original paraphrase