Guide

Experienced tour guide is included

Accommodation

12 nights hotel accommodation

Others

Meeting and assistance on arrival and departure Admission to listed sites

Meals

12 Breakfasts 11 Dinners

Hygieneprotocol

Face masks required for travelers in public areas Temperature checks for travelers upon arrival Regular temperature checks for staff Guides required to regularly wash hands Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized Gear/equipment sanitized between use Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas Social distancing enforced throughout experience Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff Face masks required for guides in public areas

Transport

Roundtrip airport/hotel transfers Transportation in private vehicle

Not included:

Others

Cost of visa Gratuity to driver and guide Personal items such as laundry, internet and telephone

Insurance

Travel Insurance is not included

Flights

Flights are not included

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

Day 1: Arrive In Dakar

Arrive Dakar; meet assist and transfer to the hotel.

Overnight at Hotel Azalai Dakar
Day 2 Day 2: Dakar – City Tour – Goree Island
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Dakar – City Tour – Goree Island

After breakfast, tour Dakar. Pass the colourful markets of Sandaga, Tiline and Kermel. Observe the Great Mosque, Independence Square, the Presidential Palace, the IFAN Museum, where a fine collection of West African masks is housed, the Cathedral, and the shopping centers on Pompidou Avenue. Then visit the craft village of Soumbedioune.

In the afternoon, take a ferry boat to visit the famous (or infamous) Goree Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Observe the “Door of No Return,” through which millions of Africans passed on the way to slavery in the Americas. The tour includes a visit to the ethnographic museum and a lecture by the curator on the history of Goree Island.

Late afternoon, return to Dakar.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Hotel Azalai Dakar
Day 3 Day 3: Dakar – Pink Lake – Thies - St Louis
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Dakar – Pink Lake – Thies - St Louis

This morning drive to Saint Louis. Visit Pink Lake on the way, a rare natural phenomenon caused by a unique combination of microorganisms and high concentration of salts that gives the lake its pink color. Interact with the women harvesting salt and visit the Fulani village, where you will be welcomed by the chief and his wives. Continue to Thies and visit the National Gallery of Tapestry before you get to St Louis.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Hotel La Residence Saint Louis
Day 4 Day 4: St Louis – Djoudj – St Louis
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: St Louis – Djoudj – St Louis

This morning drive to Djoudj Park. You will see thousands birds and hundreds species. We will have a tour in motorized canoe. We may also see some snakes and crocodiles. There are also possibilities to see warthog. After visit Drive back to St Louis and enjoy a tour of Saint Louis (the former colonial capital of Senegal) in a horsedrawn carriage. Explore the narrow streets flanked by houses with carved wooden balconies and verandas. You will see the governor’s palace, a fortress built in the 18th

century; you will see the only mosque in the world with a bell and dating colonial period.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Hotel La Residence Saint Louis
Day 5 Day 5: St Louis – Touba – Kaolack
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: St Louis – Touba – Kaolack

After breakfast, you drive to Kaolack with stops on the way to visit small villages and the holy city of Touba, founded by Ahmadou Bamba, a revered Holyman who started the Pan Africanism struggles in Senegal. After lunch continue to Kaolack.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Le Relais or Similar
Day 6 Day 6: Kaolack – Tambacounda – Kedougou
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Kaolack – Tambacounda – Kedougou

Today drive to the Niokolo Koba park passing through Tambacounda and visiting small villages on the way. Arrive early evening at your hotel.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Hotel Bedik or similar
Day 7 Day 7: Kedougou – Tomboronkoto – Kedougou
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Kedougou – Tomboronkoto – Kedougou

Continue exploring rural Senegal. Drive to visit places where people get gold in the traditional manner; trek to visit some bedik villages and overnight in Kedougou.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Hotel Bedik or similar
Day 8 Day 8: Kedougou – Bassari Country
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Kedougou – Bassari Country

Today take a drive to villages in the area of Kedougou. Between Kedougou and Salementa to visit the Bedik people. Visit their main villages such as Iwol to meet the Biwol and Etyowar. Then you drive to see the cascade of Dindelo. Return to Kedougou early evening.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Hotel Bedik or similar
Day 9 Day 9: Kedougou – Kaolack
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Kedougou – Kaolack

Today, cross the Niokolo Koba park while driving back to Kaolack. Stop at points of interest for more curiosity.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Le Relais or Similar
Day 10 Day 10: Kaolack – Saly
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 10: Kaolack – Saly

Breakfast and drive to Joal Fadjouth and Mbour. Joal birthplace of Senegal’s rst president, Leopold Sedar Senghor and its picturesque twin, Fadiouth a village covered with oyster and clam shells. The food supplies are houses in granaries built on stilts. Get to Saly and stay overnight at your resort hotel.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Hote Le Royame or Similar
Day 11 Day 11: Saly – Bandia Park – Saly
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 11: Saly – Bandia Park – Saly

Early depart to visit the Bandia park for Safari. Chance to see wildlife such as Crocodiles, Antelopes, Rhinoceros, Monkey, Buffalos, Giraffe among others… Observe the legendary Baobab tree which has been used during the past century as cemetery. Inside the game reserve there is a bar restaurant where you may stop and take some refreshment. Return to Saly.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Hote Le Royame or Similar
Day 12 Day 12: Saly
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 12: Saly

Day at Leisure at the beach hotel.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Overnight at Hote Le Royame or Similar
Day 13 Day 13: Depart - Dakar
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 13: Depart - Dakar

You have this morning either to rest or have a tour in Dakar to buy some souvenirs.

Meal(s) Included: Breakfast

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Backroads Of Senegal

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Itinerary of your trip Backroads Of Senegal

Day 1: Arrive In Dakar

Day 2: Dakar – City Tour – Goree Island

Day 3: Dakar – Pink Lake – Thies - St Louis

Day 4: St Louis – Djoudj – St Louis

Day 5: St Louis – Touba – Kaolack

Day 6: Kaolack – Tambacounda – Kedougou

Day 7: Kedougou – Tomboronkoto – Kedougou

Day 8: Kedougou – Bassari Country

Day 9: Kedougou – Kaolack

Day 10: Kaolack – Saly

Day 11: Saly – Bandia Park – Saly

Day 12: Saly

Day 13: Depart - Dakar

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