Situated to 35 km southwestward of Diego Suarez, Montagne d'Ambre National Park is constituted of volcanic grounds that culminate to 1.475 m at the Ambre Peak. Many crater lakes marks out the summits line , among which the Lake of the Green Cup, the Curse Lake thus named to have once ungolfed two horsemen and their mounts in its unstable banks , the Great Lake where it is forbidden to bathe so as not to soil the waters , the Lake Texier, the Lake Fantany and the legendary Lake Antanavo which is the greatest crater lake of the Island. An originally track opened by the French Foreign Legion allows to cover the crest line long of 30 km. From the summits of the Montagne d'Ambre , the visitor dominates the Bay of Diego Suarez , one of the biggest of the world (250 km2) and has access to the panorama of the four cascades :the Great Cascade, the Tourist Cascade, the Small Cascades and the sacred Cascade . The Montagne d'Ambre can be visited all the year.

The vegetation of the Montagne d'Ambre National Park can be met between 850 and 1475 m of altitude. Its isolation within a region of dry tropical climate makes it an always evergreen forest and consequently the water reservoir of all the adjacent region. A botanical path that has been created through a sector representative of the natural forest of the park allows to appreciate all the diversity that offers the Malagasy flora within a pluvial forest. Among the great trees the most commonly met, the Canarium madagascariense with curatives virtues . These great trees, as well as some more modest often constitute supports for the epiphyt plants like the orchids Angraecum ebuneum which size can reach one meter and that presents flowers of cream white color regrouping on flower spike of near 80 cm. When talking about the Montagne d'Ambre park , should not be forgottern the ferns trees , palm trees, Pandanus , they are the most representative species

The fauna of the Montagne d'Ambre National Park is characteristic to the populating peculiar to Madagascar humid forests . Two species of diurnal lemur are easily visible : Crowned Lemur and the Lémur of Sanford. A nocturnal promenade allows with a few patience to hear and to see the smallest of the lemurs : the microcebus of the size of a thumb (40 to 100 g). To note the recent observation within the park of one of the most secret carnivores of Madagascar, the Euplère of Goudot (Eupleres goudodii) to research near lakes and forest marsh. On an other chapter, the avifauna accounts 75 species 35 among them proper to the Montagne d'Ambre . The chic Ibis is the largest forest terrestrial bird and meets frequently along of the tracks. Either they emit in crescendo strident shouts (Water rail of Cuvier) or singing metallic notes (Warbler of Madagascar), birds will keep you company and will be your awakening during bivouacs on authorized areas . We will also mention the existence of 49 species of reptiles, 24 species of batrachians and 36 species of butterflies.