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8 Days 7 Nights Senegal Highlights
8 Days 7 Nights Senegal Highlights
8 Days 7 Nights Senegal Highlights
8 Days 7 Nights Senegal Highlights
8 Days 7 Nights Senegal Highlights

8 Days 7 Nights Senegal Highlights

By Across Africa Tours LLC
Free cancellation available
Price is CA $2,957 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 8d
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

This tour to Senegal will give 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 8- Day safari is a combination of wildlife experience and city tour to Dakar, Goree Island, Pink Lake, Lompoul Desert, explore of Touba, not forgetting the twin village of Joal and Fadiouth. It is an excellent experience and worthwhile.

Activity location

  • Dakar
    • Dakar, Senegal, Senegal

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Dakar
    • Dakar, Senegal, Senegal

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8 Days 7 Nights Senegal Highlights
  • Activity duration is 8 days8d8d
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 8:00am
Price details
CA $2,957.14 x 2 AdultsCA $5,914.28

Total
Price is CA $5,914.28

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate transport
  • What's includedWhat's includedExperienced English speaking guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedAdmission to all listed areas
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedDrinks, bears and cigarette
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedpersonal clothing

Know before you book

  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Day 01-Arrival in Dakar, Senegal
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: snacks
  • Accommodation: Accomodation at Hotel Farid or similar
Dakar
  • 8h
On arrival, meet with our esteemed guide who will help you finish all the formalities and transfer you to the place of accommodation. Check-in to the hotel and have an orientation about the safari with your guide.
Day 2: Day 02-City tour Dakar - Goree Island
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: breakfast, snacks
  • Accommodation: Accomodation at Hotel Farid or similar
Market Soumbedioune
  • 8h
  • Admission ticket included
After breakfast, your trip begins with a city tour of Dakar. The first place of the visit will be independence place passing through the presidential palace and the main cathedral. Follow by a drive to the seafront towards soumbedioune market and the “mosque de la revelation.”The tour to Dakar will show you the contrasts between upscale residential areas and other popular areas. You will not leave Dakar without a visit to the popular hotspots like Kermel, Tilene Market, Renaissance Monument, not forgetting Africa’s most modern Museum, the Museum of African Civilisation a massive four-story complex which fulfilled the dreams of Senegal’s first president Leopold Sedar Senghor.
Day 3: Day 03-Pink Lake and Lompoul Desert
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: breakfast, snacks
  • Accommodation: Accomodation-Lodge de Lompoul or similar
Lompoul Desert
  • 8h
  • Admission ticket included
After breakfast, leave Dakar for a drive to the pink lake, an important centre for salt collection. On arrival, observe how salt diggers harvest the salt from the Lake and women pile it up. Lunch at own expenses which after that you will drive to Lompoul desert. At your details upon, board a 4x4 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.
Day 4: Day 04Lompoul – Saint Louis
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: breakfast, snacks
  • Accommodation: Accomodation at Hotel Cap Saint Louis or similar
Dakar Region
  • 8h
Wake up for a 2-hour drive to the old city of Saint Louis, the former capital of Senegal. Explore the town on a horse-drawn carriage. The city reminds you of New Orleans with a wooden balcony align at the narrow streets.
Day 5: Day 05-Saint Louis – Touba – Toubacouta
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: breakfast, snacks
  • Accommodation: Overnight at Hotel Keur Saloum or similar
Toubakouta
  • 8h
Depart to the holy city of Touba. Visit 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 continue to Toubacouta arriving at Keur Saloum Hotel- Lodge, which is at the heart of Africa’s most beautiful ecosystems. The territory covers about 200,000 hectares with its intimate blend of sky, earth and sea. It has been the subject of several national and international protective measures; therefore, it deserves our protection as well.
Day 6: Day 06-Toubacouta – Joal Fadiouth – Saly
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: breakfast, snacks
  • Accommodation: Accomodation at Royam Hotel or Royal Hotel
Joal Fadiouth
  • 8h
Depart to the twin village of Joal and Fadiouth. Joal is on the main island, the birthplace of the first president- Leopold Senghor. Fadiouth is on a small island reached by a long wooden bridge composed entirely of Oyster and a calm shell that has been deposited over the centuries. Continue to sally.
Day 7: Day 07-Saly – Bandia Safari Game Reserve
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: breakfast, snacks
  • Accommodation: Accomodation at Royam Hotel or Royal Hotel
Reserve De Bandia
  • 8h
  • Admission ticket included
After your breakfast, drive to Bandia safari reserve, one of the major attractions for tourists staying in Dakar or nearby areas. After the game drive visit at the sanctuary, there will be an optional Accrobaobab adventure consisting of the park for tree climbing, outdoor recreation, and courtesy house. It is an unmemorable adventure you would not like to miss.
Day 8: Day 08-Saly – Airport
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: Not included
  • Accommodation: Not included
Saly
  • 8h
Departure date depending on your flight details. There will also be a chance to participate in optional activities such as jet skis, kayaking, and surfing golf among others

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESDakar
    • Dakar, Senegal, Senegal

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEDakar
    • Dakar, Senegal, Senegal

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