Tours & Excursions Senegal

FULLDAY TOURS PINK LAKE AND CAYAR: (From 9 :00am to 5 :00pm)

Visit of the natural phenomenon of the lake, visit of Fulani villages and interact with the inhabitants. Lunch in a typical restaurant and after proceed to the fishermen village of Cayar where you will attend the colourful  arrival of the big game fishing.

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FULLDAY TOUR TO JOAL FADIOUTH: (From 9 :00am to 5 :00pm)

A fullday trip to the area called la Petite Côte around 60 miles south of Dakar. After passing through the suburb Rufisque  and small villages surrounded by Baobab forests all along the road, you will arrive at Mbour, chief town in the area. Visit the local market, and then drive on to Joal, an old colonial spot discovered by the Portuguese during the 15th century, and still  a very important center in the region and the birthplace of president Leopold Sedar Senghor. A short tour by pirogue to the island of Fadiouth, famous for it’s Oyster-banks  and sea-shell cemetery. Lunch in a restaurant close to the beach, afternoon free swimming and sunbathing.

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FULLDAY TOUR AND GOREE ISLAND: (From 9 :00am to 5 :00pm)

Morning visit of Dakar as  precedently  described, lunch in Goree island  and visit of Goree in the afternoon.

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FULLDAY TOUR TO SALOUM AND JOAL: (From 7 :00am to 6 :00pm)

Leave Dakar early in the morning at 7 :00am for the Saloum islands. You will pass by the forest of  palm grove trees of  Fumela and the Serer traditional villages. Upon arrival at Ndagane you will take the motor canoes  to visit the Saloum islands classified as exclusive protected natural sites. You will discover the rich ornithology of the Saloum islands, the fishermen villages the “bolongs”(vegetation corridors on the water).
Return at noon to  Ndagane . Lunch in a typical restaurant alongside the river. In the afternoon visit of Joal and Fadiouth, typical Serer islands with its shells cemetery, the granaries on piles and its colourful and typical streets. Return to Dakar in the evening and visit of the city of Mbour and its market on the way back to Dakar.

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FULLDAY TOUR TO TOUBA: (From 8 :00am to 7 :00pm)

Touba is the most  famous Muslim  pilgrimage center of west Africa. Founded  by Cheick Ahmadou Bamba, the small village became in 25 years a big Town. You will visit the wonderful mosque (decorated with gold, silver and crystal). You will be welcomed by the spiritual leader of the community (the Serigne) who will lecture you on Cheick Bamba and the mourid brotherhood he created some hundred years ago.
Lunch will be hosted by one of the leaders in the purest tradition of hospitality which caracterizes  this holly city. Return to Dakar after visiting the surrounding villages and after having met the  “Baye Fall ”( defenders and workers of the brotherhood) who gave birth to the rastapharians.

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FULLDAY ARTS TOUR

This tour will be led by a Senegalese  Professor specialist of African Arts. In the morning you will visit the IFAN MUSEUM , the richest museum of Arts in the subregion. One hour visit will make you go through the traditional art of Guinee-Bissau, Mali, Guinee and Senegal. Then visit of the National Gallery of Arts (exhibition of modern Senegalese Paintings) and the private gallery of Senegalese Painters. You will proceed to Thies where you will have lunch and then visit the National Art Tapestries Manufactory which gathers the most beautiful Senegalese Paintings selected once a year in nation wide competition and woven into very exclusive tapestries. Return to your hotel at the end of the afternoon.

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3 DAYS TOUR TO SAINT-LOUIS AND TOUBA

DAY I: 9 :00 DAKAR/ THIES/ SAINT-LOUIS

Leave Dakar for Saint-Louis passing by the pink lake Retba that you will visit, meeting also the Fulani ethnic group living in the surroundings of the lake, still in the morning, you will proceed to Thies. Visit of Thies 3rd main town of Senegal, rich of Arts and handicraft. You will also visit the Market of Thies (beautiful African fabrics) and enjoy a typical lunch .
Afternoon, continuation for Saint-Louis visiting traditional Wolof villages and picturesque weekly markets on the way. Arrival in Saint-Louis at the afternoon. Welcome drink at hotel. Overnight.

DAY 2: SAINT-LOUIS

Breakfast in hotel and departure for the visit of Saint-Louis. This old town formerly capital of Senegal is also one of the cultural monuments of the world patrimony because of its charming and original colonial architecture style. You  till stop at the Governor’s palace, visit the old colonial houses, the typical fishermen cemetery and the picturesque district of Guet Ndar. The visit of  the old town will be done in horse drawn carriage.
Lunch in a house of Guet Ndar, together with some inhabitants in order to socialize  and interact. Afternoon, visit to the traditional  village of Makhana  where you will attend a folklore ceremony given to your honour in order to welcome you. You will enjoy a variety of songs, dances, a demonstration of Senegalese wrestling. Return to your hotel at the end of the afternoon dinner and overnight at hotel Coumba Bang.

DAY 3: SAINT-LOUIS/TOUBA/DAKAR

Breakfast in hotel and departure for Dakar via Touba. Stop in Touba where you will be hosts of the leader of the Mourid brotherhood. Under his personal direction you will visit the holly city founded by the wise Cheick Ahmadou Bamba. You will admire the Mosque (the biggest and the most beautiful one in West Africa). Visit the Library gathering thousands of books written by the Saint man, meet other leaders of the community before enjoying a hospitality lunch. After a while of rest, continuation to Dakar in the afternoon with other visits on the way. You will pass by Louga the home town of the Senegalese current president. Visit of some villages meet the chief of villages and notables who will narrate history of battles which took place in that area between  French colonisers and the national freedom fighters.

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3 DAYS TOUR TO CASAMANCE AND THE MANDIGO COUNTRY

DAY I: DAKAR/KAOLACK/ZIGUINCHOR

Leave Dakar for Ziguinchor capital town of Casamance the renowned southern region of Senegal. On the way you will visit the Baobab forest of Sindia, the town of Kaolack and its market. Fulani villages and cross the western side of the Gambia river. Lunch will be taken on the way. Arrival in Ziguinchor in the late afternoon. Dinner and overnight at hotel Aubert or Similar.

DAY 2: ZIGUINCHOR

Breakfast in hotel. Today  will be a special day : you will meet the deep Casamance with its uses and customs, meet the traditional chief of the Mandigo ethnic group, attend initiation ceremonies in the villages, interact with the people.
Lunch on your way. Dinner and overnight at hotel Aubert in Ziguinchor.

DAY 3: ZIGUINCHOR/BANJUL/DAKAR

Breakfast in hotel. Departure from Ziguinchor for Banjul in the Gambia. You will also visit the upper Casamance villages and interact with the people. Arrival in Banjul for a short visit  of the town and lunch. Afternoon, you will cross the Gambia river by ferry boat and continue your way for Dakar going through the Saloum region. Arrival in Dakar in the late afternoon.

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EXCLUSIVE  TOUR :TRADITIONAL MEDICINE “ ON THE PATHS OF THE MEDECINE MEN”

DAY 1: DAKAR

Arrival in Dakar, welcome and transfer to hotel Teranga or similar. Welcome drink and overnight.

DAY 2: DAKAR

Breakfast in hotel. From 9 :00 to 10 :00am. A conference will be given by a Senegalese Professor famous for his researches in the field of traditional medicine and for his numerous investigations. From 10 :00am to 13 :00pm visit the markets of Dakar where the traditional herbalists will help for an initiation to the knowledge of the different plants and their uses. Lunch will be taken in a typical restaurant of Dakar. In the afternoon visit of Goree island loaded with 300 years of slave-trading history. Dinner in a Senegalese restaurant and overnight hotel Teranga or similar.

DAY 3: DAKAR/KAOLACK

Breakfast and departure for the village of Keur Massar. Here under the crook of Mrs Yvette Pares biologist at the University Cheick Anta Diop of Dakar are gathered many  “traditpractitioners ”  (Medicinemen) and herbalists working in different units according to their own speciality. They practice their art for benefit of  the populations all around.
After Keur Massar, proceed to Rufisque where you will pay a visit to a Lady who practices “ Ndep”  ritual dances to cure mental patients. The patients dance at the sound of the drums after a long mystical preparation until he gets into a liberatory trance. The ceremony will be repeated several times in order to get a total recovery. Lunch at Saly Portudal resort and afternoon proceed to Kaolack via Fatick where you will meet one of the most famous healers of Senegal. You will meet the chief of the village, the notables and the healers : a great moment of interaction. End of the afternoon, arrival in Kaolack. Dinner and overnight at hotel Le Paris.

DAY 4: KAOLACK/BANJUL/ZIGUINCHOR

Breakfast and departure from Kaolack for Ziguinchor, capital town of Casamance. You will pass by Toubacouta along the Saloum Delta, rich of its sumptuous vegetation and its birds sanctuaries. After having crossed the Gambia river by ferryboat, you will visit the town of Banjul, capital of the Gambia, meet some tradipractitioners and have lunch in a typical restaurant of Banjul. Afternoon continuation to Ziguinchor and on the way, visit of the typical villages of Badiana, Balla, Diouloulou. Dinner and overnight at hotel Kadiandoumagne in Ziguinchor or similar.

DAY 5: ZIGUINCHOR

Breakfast at the hotel, departure for a tour of Ziguinchor.It will take you about 1 hour to visit Saint- Maur, market (the main one of Ziguinchor) with its numerous medicine plants, socialize and interact with the herbalists. Continuation of the visit, going to the handicraft market with its features, statues, fabrics, traditional jewels in gold and silver. Also visit the fish market and have lunch in a traditional restaurant of the town in order to enjoy the delicious food of Casamance. Afternoon visit of Mawa where you will meet the   “Marabout ” (spiritual Leader and medicine man). Here are applied principles of traditional psycho-therapy. Mental sickness is analysed as a rupture of social environment. Curing the mental patient means therefore re-establishing those broken links and explains the practice of the so said  “Group Therapy ” whose origins are deeply african. Visit the beautiful forest of Mbissine. Dinner and overnight at hotel Kadiandoumagne or similar.

DAY 6: ZIGUINCHOR/CAP SKIRRING/ZIIGUINCHOR

Fullday visit to the animist countries (animism, still dominating the Casamance region is the traditional African religion before the penetration of Islam and Christianity). You will meet with traditional chiefs and notables, visit  “totems, holy woods...etc”. Lunch at the Cap-Skirring with its beautiful beach and relax before returning to ziguinchor for dinner and overnight at Kadiandoumagne or similar.

DAY 7: ZIGUINCHOR/FOUNDIOUGNE

Breakfast and departure from Ziguinchor for Foundiougne. You will visit Mandigo villages on the way, cross the Gambia river once again, have lunch in Toubacouta. Afternoon visit of the fishermen village of Missirah where you will meet the  “medicine woman”  dedicated to protect, from the  “bad spirits”  the fishermen going for the whole night on the river for good catches. Proceed to Foundiougne. Dinner and overnight at hotel  “Piroguiers ”.

DAY 8: FOUNDIOUGNE/DAKAR

Breakfast in hotel and departure for Dakar On the way visit of the Malango clinic Center in Fatick. Well known for its efficiency in healing sick persons. The center gathers the most oustanding tradipractitioners of the Sine region called “Saltigués” , and modern medicine doctors.  The Saltigués very knowledgeable people beyond their capacity of healers are also predictionist. They can  predict on what would be happening in the future. Visit of Joal Fadiouth. Arrival in Dakar for lunch time. Lunch in a typical restaurant. Transfer to the airport.

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