• The flight touches down in Dakar
• Clear customs and leave the main arrival hall the guide and driver will be waiting
• A short transfer to the hotel, check in and get briefed on the following days activities.
• The remainder of the day is free time to relax and enjoy the first night in Africa.

• After breakfast, do a city tour of the town.
• Make a visit to the colonial’s remains of what was the capital of French Africa: The Presidential palace, the Independence Place and the chamber of commerce.
• Visit the local markets full of clothes and spices. Museums and monuments as African Monument of Renaissance can be visited.
• Dinner and Overnight.
• Transfer to the harbor and board a ferry to visit the island of Gorée (20 minutes away from Dakar).
• Visit of the island and lunch included in a restaurant in Gorée.
• Dinner and Overnight.

• This morning, go to Lac Rose to visit the famous Pink Lake* in 4X4 car, have the opportunity to observe how the locals harvest salt, their main source of livelihood, from the lake. L
• Lunch in the afternoon, Drive to *Lompoul for a bivouac in the desert on dunes over 30 meters high.
• Possibility to take a camel ride and admire the sunset in the dunes, all these in a beautiful environment.
• Dinner and overnight at our lodge.

Important: *Last year it rained too much in Senegal and therefore, a lot of rainwater ended up in the lake. Since then, the level of the lake has risen enormously and therefore it has lost its colour. However, the visits as well as the activities offered are still going on.

Important: *the Lompoul Ecolodge will close in January 2024 due to zircon exploitation.

There is a relocated new site in the desert  named “Oasis du Desert” for 2024.

Therefore, you will stay for the second night in Lac Rose if the New lodge is not ready yet.

• After breakfast, continue to the north in Saint Louis.
• Have a Cooking class today with a family and go to the market and prepare the famous national dish ‘’Ceebu Djeun’’.
• Lunch with the Senegalese family.
• In the evening, the city is best explored by horse and carriage, which is exactly what you will do after settling into the hotel.
• The local guide will explain the history of the city wandering the streets in the open air.
• Walk through the streets with colonial houses, visit the fishermen district and its local cemetery, marked by the fishing nets spanning the tombstones.
• Dinner and overnight.

• Breakfast and early departure towards the north.
• 60 km later, arrive at the National Park of Djoudj and take motorized canoes to go through the River Senegal’s waters.
• From the boat(pirogue), see the ballet of pelican taking off, cormorants fishing by immersion and some mammals like warthog in the banks.
• Continuation to Barbarie. Installation in the Ocean & Savane lodge for lunch (or in Djoudj if the restaurant of the Park is open).
• In the afternoon, enjoy an African dance class or exploring surrounding villages in this area where market gardening (especially onion growing) is highly developed alongside fishing.
• Return to the Lodge, dinner and overnight.

• After breakfast, continue to Saloum.
• On route, stop in some Fulani villages.
• Lunch in Kaolack city, and drive to Toubacouta in the heart of Saloum islands.
• Check into the hotel and depart in the evening for a small boat trip in the Sine Saloum Delta National Park.
• Here, appreciate the diversity of birds in this place considered a nesting and sleeping place for them.
• Return to the lodge to have dinner and overnight.

• After an early brekfast, leave early in the morning for the superb Fathala Game Reserve where lions, warthogs, buffaloes, horse antelopes, crocodiles, Derby and Cape elands, zebras, giraffes, white rhinoceroses, hyenas and monkeys roam in semi-liberty in the middle of 2,000 hectares of classified forest.
• The highlight of the morning is a walk with the lions!
• Continuation to the Niominkas villages: Dar Salam and Missirah.
• See the way of life of tribes, governed by tradition and superstition.
• Also take the opportunity to share experiences with local women’s associations in their day-to-day work to carry out various development projects.
• Lunch with a local family and after return to the hotel.
• In the afternoon, return to the charming and peaceful village of Toubacouta and visit its dynamic women’s cooperative named NEBEDAY which develops income-generating activities in respect of the environment.
• Return to the hotel.
• Dinner and overnight.

(optional: visit Toubacouta on bike)

• Visit one of the spectaculeous market in this region.
• The market (Louma in Wolof) at Sokone is the biggest in the region.
• Every Wednesday, in the early hours of the morning, zebu-drawn carts, backfiring vans and pedestrians crowd together to buy and sell. You can find everything in Sokone: fish is traded for rice, fabrics are fiercely negotiated, vegetables are fragrant. all to the rhythm of cackling, neighing and bleating.
• Continuation to Ndangane, a peaceful serer village.
• Embark on a pirogue to meet the Serer people who fish in the tangle of islands and mangroves of the Saloum Delta National Park.
• Visit by horse of the beautiful island of Mar Lothie. Lunch of a local dish cooked by some local women.
• Dance or drum lesson.
• Back to Ndangane and continuation to Palmarin.
• Arrival and check into the lodge.
• Dinner and overnight

• The trip will go on to Joal Fadiouth, hometown of the first Senegalese president and poet, Leopold Sedar Senghor.
• Crossing an old wooden bridge, reach Fadiouth with its barns stilts and curious designed shells cemetery.
• Visit of the church, the baobab village where a last homage is paid to the dead before burial, the cemetery shared by Christians and Muslims.
• Return by canoe through granaries on stilts.
• Lunch in a restaurant in Joal. Direction Mbour, the 2nd largest fishing port in the country after Dakar, and one of the largest fish markets in West Africa.

After here, continue  to Saly and have dinner and overnight.

• Breakfast in the hotel.
• Free time with optional activities as Somone Lagoon or Bandia Game reserve.
• Have the chance to do some last minute souvenir shopping at the craft market, or visit the beach if you have time.
• Lunch and dinner before the transfer to Blaise Diagne international airport for the international flight back to home after a wonderful 8 day tour of Senegal