Why this ride
It goes by way of Parc National de Masoala and back through Parc National de Masoala. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Parc National de Masoala and Parc National de Masoala
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 2913 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 50 h 08
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Parc National de Masoala
Madagascar's north-east corner is a great green thumb pushed into the Indian Ocean, and the Masoala peninsula is the wildest part of it. The national park covers a vast area of lowland rainforest, mangroves, and coast, and it holds the largest protected tract of the island's eastern rainforest, which is why it is bundled into the Rainforests of the Atsinanana World Heritage listing. Behind the beaches, the forest runs up steep hills in layer after layer of palms, vines, orchids and giant trees.
Read the complete Parc National de Masoala write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Parc National de Masoala is where the day begins. Next is Parc National de Masoala.
2. Parc National de Masoala
Masoala is the largest national park in Madagascar, covering more than two thousand square kilometers of rainforest on a rugged peninsula in the northeast, and this point lies on its western side, facing Antongil Bay. The bay is wide, deep and sheltered, one of the best places in the Indian Ocean to see humpback whales, which come to calve between about July and September. The town of Maroantsetra, at the head of the bay, is the usual gateway, a quiet, humid place with a river, a market and boats waiting at the shore.
Read the complete Parc National de Masoala write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Parc National de Masoala comes up about 438 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parc National de Masoala.
3. Parc National de Masoala
At the northern tip of the Masoala peninsula, the land swings toward Cap Est, the eastern point of Madagascar, and the landscape changes. The rainforest here meets the Indian Ocean directly, with white beaches, coral reefs and rocky headlands, and in places the trees reach almost to the waterline. This is the exposed side of Masoala, battered by cyclones and strong swells, and it is a wilder coast than the sheltered bay on the west.
Read the complete Parc National de Masoala write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 1457 km into the recorded legs you reach Parc National de Masoala. Next is back through Parc National de Masoala.
4. back through Parc National de Masoala
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parc National de Masoala write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Parc National de Masoala, late in the day.
5. Parc National de Masoala
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parc National de Masoala write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Parc National de Masoala. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Parc National de Masoala to Parc National de Masoala
Parc National de Masoala → Parc National de Masoala is 1018 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parc National de Masoala to back through Parc National de Masoala
Parc National de Masoala → back through Parc National de Masoala is 1018 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parc National de Masoala to Parc National de Masoala
back through Parc National de Masoala → Parc National de Masoala is 1018 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.