Sene-Gambia Culture & People , 10 Days

Upon arrival at Blaise Diagne International Airport after completing your entry formalities, you will be met by one of our representative and transferred to your Hotel. Once you have checked you in, your guide, who will be with you throughout your stay, will brief you on what to expect during your stay in Senegal.

After breakfast, we will start the city tour of Dakar and vicinity. From Independence Place to the presidential house then the main cathedral before continuing by a seafront drive towards  Soumbedioune market, and the mosque de la revelation. The tour of Dakar will show you the contrasts between some upscale residential areas and other popular neighbourhoods.  We will also visit tourist hotspots like Kermel or Sandaga market. Continue to other highlights of the city like the African Renaissance Monument and the Museum of black civilisation.  In the afternoon after 20 minutes ferry ride to visit the charming famous Goree Island a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Explore the flowered streets of the historical island, taking a baobab-lined path up to the headland from where you can enjoy an amazing view over the bay of Dakar.  A lecture by the curator in this last slave house to know about the captive’s life and to observe the “Door of No Return” through which millions of Africans passed on the way to slavery in the Americas. Visit Goree and cruise back to Dakar for overnight 

After breakfast drive straight to the North. Stop on the way at the pink lake a rare natural phenomenon caused by a unique combination of microorganism, a halophilic bacteria and high concentration of salt with the sun which gives it the different colors  Interact with the salt harvesters.  Cruise by boat on the waters where swimming just means floating, lunch and visit the nearby Fulani village on the way for St Louis.  Located at the north next to Mauritanian border this city is a unesco world heritage with a rich and mythic colonial past.  Settled in the middle of Senegal river, StLouis is built by bricks or wooden houses , red tiles and verandas edged by wrought iron.