10 Day Senegal and Gambia Tour

Arrive in Dakar, Senegal. Pick up and transfer from airport to your hotel. Check into your hotel and relax. Overnight at a hotel in Dakar.

After breakfast, depart your hotel and be transferred to the ferry terminal. Here, you will board a ferry to the infamous Goree Island. This 20 minute ride takes us back in time over 200 years. GOREE Island was once the depot and departure point of millions and millions of Africans shipped into bondage to the Americas. At the slave house, we listen to the curator narrate 3 to 4 centuries of black slave trade as it happened in West Africa. After prayers and libation to the memories of our ancestors who perished in the door passage, you will tour the island with stops at the Women's Museum. The tour shall include a lecture delivered by the curator on the theme ‘300 years of slave trading in West Africa’. Enjoy lunch on the Island on your own.

After lunch on your own, we depart to discover Dakar, capital city of Senegal. Stop at the Presidential Palace the African Arts Museum with its great collection from all over West Africa, the catholic cathedral of the African Memory, stroll through the colourful market of SANDAG, pass by the great mosque, the university, the sand painting gallery, Monument of African Renaissance and at last stop at the biggest craft market and experience the friendly bargain system.

Overnight at a hotel in Dakar.
Meals Included: Breakfast.

After breakfast, check out of your hotel and depart for the discovery of the phenomenal Pink Lake. Track the last lap of the famous rally Paris/Dakar by 4x4 buggies and stop to meet hundreds of men and women mining the salt from the rose coloured body of water. If time permits, we will visit a Fulani village and experience African lifestyle at first hand. We take a ride up and down the sand dunes and discover the long stretch of the Atlantic Ocean. Afterwards, continue the drive to St. Louis. Upon arrival, check in at your hotel and relax.

Overnight at a hotel in Saint Louis.
Meals Included: Breakfast.

After breakfast, depart for a guided tour to the Oiseaux du Djoudj National Park, north east of Saint Louis. This park provides a range of wetland habitats which are very popular with migrating birds, many of which have just crossed the Sahara. You will be thrilled by the sight of thousands of Pelicans perched on rocks overlooking the wetlands. A wide range of wildlife also inhabits the park, which in 2000 was added to the list of World Heritage Sites in Danger (due to the introduction of the invasive giant Salvinia plant, which threatens to choke out the park's native vegetation). Spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure.

Overnight at a hotel in Saint Louis.
Meals Included: Breakfast.

After breakfast, check out of your hotel for a scenic drive to Kaolack (Capital city of peanut oil production) with a stop at Touba to discover the biggest Mosque of the Murrid Islamic brotherhood. Stop at Kaolack for lunch on your own at local restaurant before departing for Toubacouta. Continue to Fathala.

Overnight at a hotel in Fathala.
Meals Included: Breakfast.

Early morning departure as you make your way to walk with lions at the Fathala Reserve, an area that consists of approximately 6,000 hectares of original and protected forest, providing guests with the opportunity to visit an original stretch of the African wilderness in its original condition.

Enjoy a typical African bush experience in an open game viewing vehicle on a guided sunrise or sunset game drive where you will see giraffes, rhino, buffalos, warthog, red colobus, green vervet and red patas monkeys. Afterwards, return to your hotel and relax. Overnight at a hotel in Fathala.

Meals Included: Breakfast.

After breakfast, check out of your hotel and be transferred down to the water front to board a ferry for an excursion to Banjul, the capital of Gambia. On arrival, embark on a city tour of Banjul.

We continue to KATCHKALLY, the crocodile pool and get close enough to pet these friendly crocodiles. Visit the Tie ‘n Dye Factory and see hand-made batiks, tie ‘n dye and mud cloth. This is the place to shop for king and queen size bed sheets, square and round table cloth, indigo dresses and skirts. In the afternoon, we visit the central market of Banjul before checking in at our hotel.

Overnight at a hotel in Banjul.
Meals Included: Breakfast

Take a cruise to the river Gambia for a discovery tour on St James Island where KUNTA KINTEH (ancestor of Alex Haley, author of Roots bestseller) was imprisoned before he was shipped out of the continent through GOREE Island. After a 2-hour sail up the river, passing Dog Island and Pelican Island, we arrive in Albreda on the north bank of the River Gambia.

Once an old French trading post and the site of the Freedom Flag pole, Albreda is now an important fishing village. Break for lunch on your own and then continue to the JUFFUREH village and explore the legacy let by the KINTEH family through the Honourable Lady TACKO, chieftain of JUFFUREH and meet with the KINTEH seventh generation. Bird and dolphins watching on your way back.

Overnight at a hotel in Fathala.
Meals Included: Breakfast.

After breakfast, check out of your hotel and depart for Dakar. Upon arrival, check into your hotel and relax.

Overnight at a hotel in Dakar.
Meals Included: Breakfast.

After breakfast, spend the rest of the morning packing. Transfer from hotel to airport for return flight back home.