Tour Cruise On River Senegal 10 Days

Guide

English/Spanish and French-speaking guide.

Others

All excursions as mentioned in the program. Visit of Goree Island Excursion to the Pink Lake

Accommodation

Accommodation in a 3* hotel and Comfort Cabin.

Meals

Bed and Breakfast for the rest of the program All Inclusive on board from dinner of day 2° to breakfast of day 8°.

Transport

Transfers IN/OUT and WELCOME at the airport.

Not included:

Optional

Other activities and services not included

Others

Day 1’ Dinner Drinks and extras during meals Personal expenses Flight

Insurance

Travel Insurance is not included

Flights

International flights not included.

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Day 1 Day 1: Arrival At Diass Airport – Hotel Dakar
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Arrival At Diass Airport – Hotel Dakar

Arrival at the International Airport Blaise Diagne of Diass. After formalities, transfer to our hotel

in Dakar. Overnight (Bed & Breakfast).
Day 2 Day 2: Transfer Dakar - Saint Louis - Embarkation
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Transfer Dakar - Saint Louis - Embarkation

Breakfast and transfer to St Louis. The lunch is intended in the Hotel La Residence (or similar)

near 01 hour PM. Boarding and installation in the boat at 3:00 pm.

Start a city tour by horse carriage to discover Saint-Louis. You will feel a specific atmosphere,

strange and familiar at the same time, admire the smoothness of the balconies fixed to the

beautiful colonial houses and follow the range of yellow ochre houses along the streets according

to the position of the sun. The Northern district of the island is separated from the Southern

district by the Governance (Governor’s house) and the Place Faidherbe (Faidherbe square). You

will also find on the island historical buildings such as the town hall and the law courts (1st trial

in 1875), the beautiful yellow ochre hospital (1827), the girls college Ameth Fall holding since

1927 an old hospital dated 1840, the famous Faidherbe bridge (500 m length) built in 1897, all

examples of the monuments decorating St-Louis streets. Visit the fishermen village, fascinating

with their enormous dugouts crossing the bar to go fishing in the sea. Then you will move

towards the Muslim cemetery in the district of Guet Ndar, you will see the graves covered with

fishing nets. You will also cross the market of Ndar located in the ‘Langue de Barbarie’. Dinner

and night on board.
Day 3 Day 3: Cruise St Louis – Diama – Tiguet (Djoudj)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Cruise St Louis – Diama – Tiguet (Djoudj)

You will cross the waters of the Senegal River to the Diama dam. This is the limit of the salted

waters which prevents it from going up. Lunch on board before moving upwards the river while

cruising the Senegal River heading to Djoudj.

Stop at the entrance of the GOROM one of the River arm which allows access to the bird nature

reserve of Djoudj. You will join the embarking area with a motorized canoe. The reserve was

created in 1971 and has been classified as World Inheritance by UNESCO, it is the third

ornithological park of the world. It extends on 12 000 hectares in the Senegal River Delta. It

plays an irresistible attraction on Europe’s avifauna. From November to March, three million of

birds join the reserve to spend winter there. The park also holds approximately twenty species of

mammals. Enjoy an excursion in a slow-moving motorized canoe, entering the heart of the

Djoudj and letting you enjoy a fantastic bird ballet: flamingos taking off in tightened rows,

pelicans flying away, cormorants swooping into the river. This spectacle is simply wonderful.

Back to the boat. Dinner and night on board in the larger arm of the river.
Day 4 Day 4: Cruise Tiguet – Diaouar – Richard Toll
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Cruise Tiguet – Diaouar – Richard Toll

While sailing, you will move up to the Senegal River having Senegal and Mauritania at its edges.

While Senegalese banks are used as rice fields, they are less cultivated on the Mauritanian side.

You will see some warthogs, then pass in front of Rosso, a town that the separates Senegal from

Mauritania and where motorized canoe and a ferry cross people, animals and vehicles. Arrivals

and departures of these barges provide intensive activity with various colors and particularly

animated.

You will reach Richard Toll, the gardens of Richard, named as such for being the site where

cultural methods were tried in 1822 during colonial times. Visit the city in a barouche and the

sugarcane factory, (ten thousand hectares of sugarcane), the main source of income of the area.

Discover the "madness of Baron Roger", a French-style castle now closed, surrounded with mud

brick constructions, the traditional architecture of the area. Dinner and night on board.
Day 5 Day 5: Cruise Richard Toll – Dagana
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Cruise Richard Toll – Dagana

Sailing to the mangrove, along ‘Goumel’ village, located in a loop of the Senegal River. ‘Thiep

bou dieune’ (rice with fish) will be served as traditional lunch in the middle of mango and palm

trees edging the River. At midday, arrival at Dagana, the ‘Wolof’ village called “capital of Walo”.

Visit this old trading post of the colonial period which still preserves the vestiges of the old

fortress and of some trading stores. Visit the market of Dagana where the Banny or the Ponty are

often seen charging gum or dropping off soldiers. Return to the boat by sunset. Dinner and night

on board.
Day 6 Day 6: Cruise Goumel-Fanaye– Thiangaye
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Cruise Goumel-Fanaye– Thiangaye

In the morning, visit of the ranching and nomadic village of Goumel. The architecture of its

houses consists of original huts of straw. Lunch during the navigation. Arrival to the tributary of

the river Senegal Thiangaye. In the evening we go out in the barge and after approximately thirty

minutes of navigation, arrive in the village of Fanaye. Visit this village of houses of adobe and

brick. Return to the ship, dinner in the land on the banks of the river and the night on board.
Day 7 Day 7: Cruise Thiangaye – Podor
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Cruise Thiangaye – Podor

Navigation, lunch on board. Arrival at about 2 pm at Podor, former trading post during the

French colonization. Nowadays, the trading activity does not exist anymore on the River and its

quays out of stone await impatiently our arrival. The firms which border the quays with their

original balcony and the warehouses which used to contain Arabic Gum, firewood, ivory, and

slaves are today the vestiges of a recent past. You will visit its fort built by Faidherbe and which

is under rehabilitation. You will be taken right back to this history. Late in the afternoon, we shall

visit the former trading post of the Cour du Fleuve and the Inn of Tekrour, then we shall go to the

Fort of Podor. Finally, those who want it can take a walk to the market and stroll in the peaceful

alleys, or sit on the stairs of one of these former houses to look at the sunset on the Mauritanian

banks. Dinner and night on board.
Day 8 Day 8: Transfer Podor – St Louis - Dakar
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Transfer Podor – St Louis - Dakar

After the breakfast on board, transfer to Saint Louis where we’ll lunch before taking our car to

go to Dakar. Installation in our hotel, dinner, and overnight.
Day 9 Dakar - Goree - Dakar
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Dakar - Goree - Dakar

Breakfast. Beginning of a city tour of Dakar, the Senegalese capital. We’ll make a visit that we’ll permit us to discover the colonial’s remains of what was the capital of French Africa: the Presidential palace, the Independence Place, the chamber of commerce….. Transfer to the harbour where we will board a ferry to visit the island of Gorée (20 minutes away from Dakar). Gorée is an island of 300m wide and 900m long which long ago was the stake in numerous confrontations between the Portuguese, English, Dutch and French. Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were deported from Gorée. The « slaves’ house » with its door opened on the ocean is a terrible reminder of the cruelty of men towards men. Come back to our hotel in Dakar, overnight.
Day 10 Dakar - Diass Airport
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Dakar - Diass Airport

Breakfast. At the appropriate time, transfer to the airport. En of our services

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Cruise On River Senegal 10 Days

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Itinerary of your trip Cruise On River Senegal 10 Days

Day 1: Arrival At Diass Airport – Hotel Dakar

Day 2: Transfer Dakar - Saint Louis - Embarkation

Day 3: Cruise St Louis – Diama – Tiguet (Djoudj)

Day 4: Cruise Tiguet – Diaouar – Richard Toll

Day 5: Cruise Richard Toll – Dagana

Day 6: Cruise Goumel-Fanaye– Thiangaye

Day 7: Cruise Thiangaye – Podor

Day 8: Transfer Podor – St Louis - Dakar

Dakar - Goree - Dakar

Dakar - Diass Airport

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