Enjoy your visit to Senegal. This package gives you a chance to enjoy a great experience of the Lompoul desert as you will have dinner watching traditional ballet performing Jembe drums involving singing and dancing around the campfire enjoying the constellations. The journey cannot end without a visit to the vital center of the salt collection. The tour will also take you through a game drive at Niokolo Koba Park, guided walk along Gambia River, and a lifetime Experience at the waterfalls in Dindefello.
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Highlights
Explore Lompoul desert.
Game drive to Niokolo Koba Park.
Guided walk through the Gambia River.
Waterfalls adventure at Dindefello.
Duration: 6 Days
Start:Dakar
End: Dakar
Countries visited: Senegal
Category: Mini- adventure
Operating days: Everyday
Departure time: 0730 hours
Age Limit: 2 years
Duration: 6days
Departure point:Dakar accommodation pick up
Arrival point: Dakar accommodation drop- off
Special instructions: please contact across Africa tours & travel to confirm your departure details at least one week before your first day of the visit.
Hotel accommodation in the indicated properties
Half board on a double room basis
Transportation in private vehicle
Experienced English speaking guide
Admission to all listed sites
Lunch
Travel Insurance
Tips
Personal Items
After breakfast, leave Dakar for a 1-hour drive to the pink lake, an important center for salt collection. On arrival, observe how salt diggers harvest the salt from the Lake, and women pile it up. Grab something for lunch before continuing with your excursion to the Lompoul desert. At your details upon, board a 4WD to the middle of the desert. Enjoy a great experience of the Lompoul desert as you will have dinner watching traditional ballet performing Jembe drums involving singing and dancing around the campfire enjoying the constellations. There will be a possibility of a camel ride. This will be a lifetime experience.
Place of accommodation: Lodge de Lompoul or similar
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Early morning, leave Lompoul for a visit at one of the largest and most Magnificent Mosque in all of West Africa, the Grand Mosque. Your guide will help you understand Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba the founder of Mouridism and the history of Touba. Later on, the move to Kaolack with stops at Fulani and Wolof villages. Upon arrival at Kaolack, visit the local market before checking to your hotel.
Place of accommodation: Relais de Kaolack or similar
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Early morning, the route through the dense savannah with mounds of mounds to Tambacounda, a bush crossing town and a major railway stop before Mali. There will be lunch (at own expense) in a typical restaurant at Tambacounda. Continue to Niokolo Koba National Park. Check at the hotel, Wassadou Hotel on a bank of the Gambia River. There will be a boat trip to observe the hippopotamus colonies (if the water level allows) or a guided walk along the river to watch the Local flora and Fauna such as Monkeys, birds, varans among others.
Place of accommodation: hotel Wassadou
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Rise for a guided game drive at Niokolo Koba Park. Great opportunity to encounter the warthogs, monkeys, antelopes, many species of birds and unusually panthers and lions. After the game drive and picnic lunch, you will drive to Mako for a walk along the bank of Gambia River in search of hippos before continuing to Kedougou.
Place of accommodation: Bedik Hotel Kedougou or similar.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Spend the day in the discovery of the Bedik ethnic group. Visit the traditional village of Bediks Lwol perched on the heights. Trek to Peulh village of Dindefelo. At your details upon, walk through the path that will surprise you with its exuberance and small streams to reach the waterfall. Its’ cascades from a height of 80m in a basin that gives a chance for swimming. Picnic at the foot of the waterfall. At late noon leave with regrets the freshness of the place to join Kédougou.
Place of accommodation: Bedik Hotel Kedougou or similar.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Dinner
Today you will transfer to Dakar with a stop at Kaolack for lunch. Back hotel in Dakar or airport depending on your flight details.
