Around 100 km from Diego-Suarez, this massif lets you discover the Tsingy (limestone karst rock, heavily eroded surface), its canyons covered by forest, numerous caves inhabited by bats and underground rivers where crocodiles live.

The Ankarana has various vegetations: grassy plants as Euphorbias and Pachypodiums in high and dry Tsingy, in canyons, damper and free from drought, fig trees, baobabs and others typical heights trees of dry forest, are growing up. Canyon forests are good places to find lemurs.