Thick rainforest with amazing birding life. Nice trails. Muddy in places, but that's normal for rainforest. A must visit place for bird watchers coming to Madagascar! Photos of Scaly Ground-Roller taken with cell phone!!!

We were really looking forward to walking in this rainforest, and it did rain for the whole 5hrs we were there so bring waterproofs and decent walking shoes. Unfortunately I agree with a lot of previous reviews, the guides and animal spotters don't seem to care much about nature there. They entice the bamboo lemurs to come down with fresh bamboo shoots. Good for the photos, not good for the animals. They shout across to each other and you can hear phones ringing all the time. It felt like once we've seen the lemurs, our guide felt his job was done. He wasn't proactively offering any information about plants we were passing unless we asked questions. It is a shame as there are so many endemic species there and it is not all about lemurs. The nocturnal walk is also not ethical, the guides put bananas on tree branches to get mouse lemur to come out and then scare them with torches. Chamelons were very easy to find though and plenty of them. Next time I would do more research into who we take as a guide and also go to the research centre to learn about the ongoing projects. Simply: could be an amazing experience but it is a shame guides found a way to destroy animals natural behaviours.

Excellent national park, I've travelled large parts of Madagascar, and this is certainly one of the best rainforest habitats that you will find. I specifically came for the reptile life, and it didn't disappoint. Point of note, you cannot night walk along the main road that bisected the national park without a guide, they have had problems with animal poachers and loggers so you're basically not allowed to wander or poke around on your own. Not the end of the world, but do expect to pay around 35,000MGA (£10) for a guide to accompany you for a 2-3 hr night walk. Worth it, though, as they will be much better at spotting the animals and will know the best spots to check. As others have mentioned, the terrain is steep at points within the park, but there are easier flatter routes as well. The local guides are good spotters and helped us find our target species of chameleons and geckos for photographs, and we saw a few unexpected ones as well. People have mentioned the leeches, while I've found the odd few trying to latch on when walking in other national parks, Ranomafana is definitely the worst I've encountered in Madagascar for leeches, I got covered at times. Wear long loose trousers and tuck shirts in at the waistband, and you'll be fine though, you just have to pause and flick them off your clothing every 20 mins or so. They were more prevalent right down the bottom of the slopes by the streams and river, not many at the top. The river that runs through the park has a wonderful waterfall at the top, and aside from all the amazing animals we saw, it's just a generally wonderful place to go hiking. There's also a bit of history deep within the rainforest with an old holy site, which is like tombstones but not actual graves.

Wonderful experience! Saw multiple lemurs and other interesting animals. A must-do if in the area.

Excellent experience here early June 2025. No rain and saw lots of lemurs in the wild. Excellent guides! Enjoyed it very much.

An incredible experience. We had Célestin guiding us and we could see all the Lemur species + other animals we got to see. He was super helpful and explained everything we could come up with. We got there by shared van from Fianaratsoa and it took around 2h to get there. We paid 7.000 each. Entrance + guide + taxes was 112.500 mga

I have to say my expectations were higher. Don't expect to see King Julian lemur, but you can spot some lemurs in distance. We visited this park during August, very dry season, so there was no rain and no leachers on our ankles, hands, faces. It was very humid, we sweat a lot so it was a good walking trip through the tick forest. If I cpuld rate difficulty I would say 3/5. At some parts our guide took us off the paths so be prepare to wrestle with trees and bamboos. Overall it was great trip we took middle one (there us shory, middle and long tour), lot of wildness but spotting lemurs is extremely hard so keep your expectations lower. At the end of tour our guide wanted a tip in the range of entrance ticket. If you wanna see lemur jumping pn your shoulder go to Nosy Be in Lemuria Land. Check my review for that park.

Absolute gem of a national park. Please go visit now and support them as the park is under threat from loggers! The ticket office is well organized, they'll hook you up with a guide with whom you can organize your hikes.