Tour Tribes Of Senegal, 10 Days

Accommodation

Accommodation with the pension described in the program

Others

- All excursions and visits described in the program - Excursion to Goree Island - Visit of villages - Visit of Bedick and Bassari peoples and waterfall - Excursion by canoe in the Saloum river - Visit of Joal and Fadiouth the shellfish island

Meals

09 breakfasts, 02 lunch, and 08 dinners

Transport

Air conditioned-car with driver and diesel

Guide

Driver guide for less than 4 persons.

Not included:

Optional

Other activities and services not included

Insurance

Travel Insurance is not included

Flights

International flights not included.

Others

- Flights - Drinks and extras during meals - Tips and personal expenses

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Day 1 Day 1: Dakar
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Dakar

Arrival at the International Airport of Diass. After formalities, transfer to our hotel in Dakar.

Overnight (Bed & Breakfast)
Day 2 Day 2: Dakar – Goree – Kaolack
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Dakar – Goree – Kaolack

Breakfast. Transfer to the harbor where we will board a ferry to visit Gorée Island (20 minutes

away from Dakar). The island has been declared World Heritage by UNESCO. We’ll walk around its main cobbled streets furnished of bougainvillea. We’ll be attracted by the rest of its colonial

domination which remembers one of the saddest moments of human history: the slave trade.

Free lunch in a restaurant of the island and then back to Dakar for a complete visit of the town.

We’ll make a tour around the main avenues of this metropolis where African traditions coexist

with modernity. Continuation towards Kaolack a city situated in the west central of Senegal.

Dinner and night in our hotel (Half Board)
Day 3 Day 3: Kaolack - Kédougou
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Kaolack - Kédougou

Breakfast. Visit of Kaolack, a city that was and still is an important transit center in the groundnuts

trade, a traditional cash crop of Senegal. Continuation to Kédougou, we shall make small stops on

the road to photograph landscapes and some animals which roam near the road. We’ll have a free

lunch on the way or at Tambacounda. Arrival at Kédougou, installation in our hotel, dinner, and

overnight (Half Board)
Day 4 Day 4: Kédougou – Ibel & Iwol – Dindefello - Kédougou
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Kédougou – Ibel & Iwol – Dindefello - Kédougou

Breakfast and departure towards the plain to join Iwol, where you will learn about the Bedik

culture which is doubtless the most primitive traditional culture in Senegal, several ethnic groups

live in this region. You will make trekking of one hour and a half on the mounts of Fouta Djallon,

a natural enclave of Bedik tribe that we’ll have the opportunity to know. Bediks constitutes a

group related to Bassari tribe and still living hidden in mountains. We’ll have a pic-nick lunch. At

the Fulani village of Ibel, we shall visit the fields where millet and groundnut are traditionally

cultivated. Continuation towards Kédougou, installation in our camp, dinner, and overnight. (Half

Board)
Day 5 Day 5: Kedougou – Salemata - Etiolo
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Kedougou – Salemata - Etiolo

Breakfast. We go to discover not only the Bassari Mountains but mostly these people who stay

living with their customs and authenticity. You will discover the culture, the exceptional habitat,

the craft but also the beliefs of this part of the country where Bassari and Peul live in perfect

harmony and in a cultural and religious symbiosis. Arrival in Ethiolo, installation in our camp and

lunch (not included). In the afternoon, you will visit the wine collectors, the sacred wood and the Alpha Yaya fort. By chance, you can fall on an initiation ceremony accompanied by disguised

dance. Dinner and overnight (Half Board)
Day 6 Day 6: Etiolo – Mako
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Etiolo – Mako

After breakfast, departure for Mako, located to about 128 kilometers from Etiolo.

We will cross Kedougou before joining Mako. Visit of Mako’s gold wells, where we will have the

occasion to observe the traditional gold pieces extraction process. These gold pieces are stored in

bags and selected later by minors. Lunch (not included) in a restaurant of the camp. Dinner and

overnight (Half Board)
Day 7 Day 7: Mako – Saloum (Simal)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Mako – Saloum (Simal)

After the breakfast, departure for Saloum, we can sometimes stop on the way to admire savannah

of baobabs. This region situated in the West of the country is crossed by the river Saloum and

shelters a group of small islands that villagers reach by traditional canoes. These luxuriant

landscapes and its banks lined with mangroves shelter an infinity of birds. Arrival and installation

into our hotel. Dinner and overnight (Half Board)
Day 8 Day 8: Saloum – Excursion In Canoe – Saloum
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Saloum – Excursion In Canoe – Saloum

Breakfast in the hotel. You will embark on motorized canoes for a small cruise through the

labyrinth of Saloum River. This cruise will lead you up to the National park of the Delta of

Saloum, a paradise of birds and declared world heritage. Initiation to the hand line fishing. Return

in the hotel for the lunch (included). In the afternoon, we can make a pedestrian stroll through the

bush and in a village in which the population was animistic and still doing animistic practices of

their ancestors. Dinner and night in the hotel (Half Board).
Day 9 Day 9: Saloum – Fadiouth – La Petite Côte (Mbour/Saly/Somone)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Saloum – Fadiouth – La Petite Côte (Mbour/Saly/Somone)

After breakfast, transfer to Mbour. On the road, we shall visit the biggest baobab tree of Senegal

that was also the cemetery of Griot tribe. We’ll stop in Joal, childhood city of the former

Senegalese president, Léopold Sédar Senghor. Moreover, a visit to his house of childhood is

proposed to you before continuing to the Shellfish Island, Fadiouth. By a wooden bridge, you will

reach this animistic village of Catholic adoption with its attics on piles and its cemetery of shells.

Dinner and overnight.
Day 10 Day 10: La Petite Côte (Mbour/Saly/Somone)– Diass Airport
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 10: La Petite Côte (Mbour/Saly/Somone)– Diass Airport

Breakfast. At an adequate time, transfer to the airport. Assistance and boarding. End of our

services.

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Tribes Of Senegal, 10 Days

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Itinerary of your trip Tribes Of Senegal, 10 Days

Day 1: Dakar

Day 2: Dakar – Goree – Kaolack

Day 3: Kaolack - Kédougou

Day 4: Kédougou – Ibel & Iwol – Dindefello - Kédougou

Day 5: Kedougou – Salemata - Etiolo

Day 6: Etiolo – Mako

Day 7: Mako – Saloum (Simal)

Day 8: Saloum – Excursion In Canoe – Saloum

Day 9: Saloum – Fadiouth – La Petite Côte (Mbour/Saly/Somone)

Day 10: La Petite Côte (Mbour/Saly/Somone)– Diass Airport

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