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This quotation sum up very well what travel is, mainly: it is a matter of meeting. Meeting with another country, another people, wildlife, another culture & tradition, another religion...

The tourist is a visitor, and the visited country a host. Our role, as an incoming tour operator, is very important. We are the third character in this triangular relationship and, probably a cornerstone for a successful trip.

It is the visitor's responsibility to have the right behaviour regarding his host. but it is our duty to propose tours that are really respectful of Madagascar.

Every single visit has a local impact. they can be discrete, hearty, generous, and beneficial, or intrusive, harmful and unbalancing.

You have the choice of your local impact.

Tamàna has chosen to propose you responsible tours focusing on our beautiful wildlife and rich culture. our Madagascar knowledge is at your service, to guide you and help you to discover our country.

For us, the most important thing is to respect madagascar.

People respect

• Picturing

Pictures can be wonderful images of meetings during your journey: you just have to take them without hurting the people with this inaccessible and sometime incomprehensible technology. Include them in the picture, don't only use them.

• Giving

A good gift is a proportional one: something that is "nothing" for you can cost the equivalent of months of work for some people here. Such gifts can unbalance the local community relations.

Also, most of the time, tourism incomes in remote areas are subsidiary, and they have to remain subsidiary for the moment because the local economy is based on something else than tourism (e.g rice culture, zebu breeding). Tourism can help but cannot replace this vital activities .Do not allow local people to think the contrary giving them too much or you would drive them to critical situations.

• Buying

Never buy any sacred or traditional items part of the national patrimony or any dead or alive protected species by the cites convention.

Madagascar living standard is low, and money against this kind of things can be very tempting.

• Physical integrity

Sexual tourism is against the physical integrity. Prostitution doesn't always appears as prostitution far away from home in exotic and beautiful areas. The open sexual attitudes of some places are sometimes just motivated by poverty.

Environment respect

• Only footprints behind us. Take back with you the rubbish that will not be correctly recycled here, such as batteries. Throw away the others in bins when possible or burn them (for example while camping).
• We only use gas or dead wood when available during our camping nights. Indeed, charcoal is very prejudicial for the environment.
• While walking in national parks or natural preserved areas, always remain on the trails when they are available, or always pay attention to where you put your feet. indeed, Madagascar is full of endemic and fragile flora species that can just die being crushed. Also some endemic small fauna species such as the chameleon brookesia minima (only a few centimetres) is endangered by unthinking walking.
• Fauna watching has to be discrete. The animal daily life should not be modified by observers. as a consequence, be quiet, do not approach them too closely, do not touch them and do not feed them.

Respect is possible only with a good understanding.
Our Madagascar knowledge is at your service, to guide you and help you throughout your trip to discover our country in the most pleasant, rewarding and fun-filled way.