Tours

Perfumes of Senegal


€ 550 BASIC 6 PAX and + 1 free for 20 paying

08 days / 7 nights

 

- FRANCE / DAKAR

- Dakar / GOREE ISLAND / PINK LAKE

- PINK LAKE / SAINT LOUIS

- st louis/DJOUDJ/st louis

- TOUBA / KAOLACK

- KAOLACK / nDAnGANE

- Joal Fadiouth / Saly

- Saly  / DAKAR / FRANCE

Dayy 1 FRANCE ( international flight ) DAKAR

Appointement of participants at the airport and fly to Dakar.

Upon arrival, reception at the airport Leopold Sedar Senghor and transfer to FAIDHERBE or similar

2nd Day DAKAR / Goree ISLAND / Pink Lac

Breakfast.

Departure City Tour DAKAR: The Independence Square, the imposing Cathedral of African Remembrance built in 1929, curious mix of styles, with two towers evoking minarets, a pseudo-Byzantine dome and a monumental façade; the craft village Soumbédioune which includes more than a hundred craftsmen (sculptors, weavers, tailors, goldsmiths, leather, etc ..) founded in 1961.

Continue to Goree: Departure by boat for a tour of the house slaves.

Lunch at the restaurant Knight Boufflers.

Visit the island: The House of Slaves, where slaves were gathered, sorted and locked up pending shipment to the other side of the Atlantic, testimony of a past of suffering, emotional visit that leaves no one indifferent. The House of the Sea, famous for its collections of fish and shellfish. Strolling in the alleys lined with sand or paved with irregular basalt blocks under the baobab trees and bougainvillea palaver.

Departure for the PINK LAKE. PINK LAKE arrival, installation at the KEUR SALIM Camp. Departure to the beach of the arrival of "Paris / Dakar" with a small 6x6 ride on the dunes you will witness the extraction of salt by the Fulani women of the surrounding villages. This operation, with peaks, is a windfall that sustains many families. It is also the end point of the famous "Rally Paris - Dakar. You will have the opportunity to swim in the waters of Lake and enjoy the "African shower"

Day 3 : PINK LAKE / SAINT LOUIS

Departure after breakfast to St. Louis via Thies city relay. Stop tour of his spice market , lunch at the magical crescent and continuation to Saint Louis en route visit Wolof villages and cassava fields , a very common food crop in these parts of the country.

Arrival in Saint Louis, accommodation at the Mermoz Hotel.

Dinner and overnight

Day 4 SAINT LOUIS / DJOUDJ / Saint Louis

Breakfast

Departure to the National Park of Djoudj . Established in 1971 and third bird park in the world, DJOUDJ the park covers 12,000 hectares in the Senegal River delta . Set in a desert region , the Djoudj is the only green in this part of the Sahel. As she exerts an irresistible attraction on the birds of Europe as in Africa. From November to March , three million birds give them appointment for the winter. Add some twenty species of mammals canoe excursion : engine idling , the boat is sinking in the heart of Djoudj while sounds fantastic ballet : Flamingos taking off in tight rows , pelicans fly , cormorants plunge .

Lunch at Djoudj

Day 4 SAINT LOUIS / DJOUDJ / Saint Louis

Back in SAINT LOUIS .

Departure for the visit of the city by carriage : The famous bridge Faidherbe (500 m long) dating from 1897 is the pride of St. Louisiens . The village of interesting fishermen in the morning and evening when you see the huge boats cross the bar . Muslim cemetery in the district of Guet ​​Ndar . The tombs are poles covered with fishing nets . The Sor market ( before taking the bridge) many stalls bark of all kinds each having ownership or cure many diseases. The beautiful station arch style " New Orleans "

Back to hotel and dinner night

Day 5 SAINT LOUIS / Touba / Kaolack

Breakfast.

Departure for the city of Touba , in Senegal regarded as the holy city of Islam with its minaret 86 meters high , the highest in West Africa . Visit the Mosque of Touba

Continuation to Kaolack. Capital peanuts , it has one of the largest markets in the country . Its arcaded galleries , midway arabesques Baltard and tales of the Arabian Nights , date of settlement.

Installation in Kaolack Relay

Visit Central Market KAOLACK known for its tissues.

Lunch at the hotel . Afternoon visit the market.

Dinner and overnight .

Day 6 KAOLACK / Ndangane

Departure after breakfast for Ndangane

Arrive Ndagane boarding craft colorful canoes for a ride in the mangroves . Continuation to the New Wave on the island of Marlodji

Lunch and then return to the hotel , dinner followed by a traditional wrestling show in which the team of volunteers among the visitors will face the local team

Overnight at hotel

Day 7 Ndangane / JOAL FADIOUTH / SALY

After breakfast depart for Joal , the birthplace of President Senghor he sang in his works. Connected to the mainland by a bridge of 500 meters. Fadiouth with its mixed Muslim and Christian cemetery to the shore lined with mangroves , its millet granaries on stilts going to be one of the most picturesque places of Senegal.

A walk across the bridge you will discover the church, the cemetery and squares of old and others.

Lunch at TAVERN FISHERMAN.

Continuation Saly Mbour with stop at the fishing port to witness the arrival of sinners .Plant has Saly

Dinner and overnight

8th day Saly / Dakar / Paris

Free morning at the hotel.

Transfer to the airport according to the flight schedules.

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