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10 DAYS OF TREKKING IN EASTERN SENEGAL (10js)
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| Price: |
EUR € 1.024 |
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10 days, 9 nights |
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Dakar, Kédougou, Fouta Djalon hills, Trekking in Fulani villages (musik and tales, craft center), Tambacounda and surroundings. |
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Minimum 4 pax, with less participants supplement will be applied (on request) |
KNOW THAT : Our tours departure dates are customized and scheduled according to the needs of each person or group who reserves a tour, so they have no pre-set departure dates.
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Visit of Goulumbo area and 4 or 5 days of trekking
Discovery of eastern Senegal and its people
I T I N E R A R Y :
Day 1: Arrival Dakar
- P.M.: Arrive at Léopold Sédar Senghor international airport in Dakar, you are met, assisted and then transferred to your hotel or auberge. Have dinner according to your arrival time; overnight at your hotel.
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Day 2: Dakar – Kédougou (700km)
- A.M.: Early breafast at the hotel, head for the area of eastern Senegal; have lunch in Kaolack or in Kaffrine.
- P.M.: Arrive and relax in Kédougou. Dinner and overnight at a campement.
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Day 3: Fouta Djalon hills (20 km)
- A.M.: Breakfast and visit Kédougou market exchange croossroads where Senegalese, guinean and malian merchants are meeting.
- Transfer by vehicle (local transportation or 4WD) on the unpaved road going to the Fulani country middle, arrive at a nestled village located on the Gambia river banks, on the first hills shaping Fouta Djalon. Have lunch on the river banks then visit villages and meet the inhabitants. Dinner and overnight in the traditional huts or in the double tents.
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Day 4, 5, 6,7 and 8: Trekking in Fulani villages
- The walking tour of different villages located between the hills will enable you to grasp some main ideas on Fulani people life and custom being one of the most mysterious people of West Africa.
- Every day take for a walk of about 2 or 5 hours in the rich and varied vegetation to reach a new village.
- This is an opportunity for you to discover quietly the activities, history and traditional rites of this area population of Senegal (musik and tales, craft center, plantation, organisation and village way of life).
- You will enjoy the area quiet, the waterfall freshness and the countryside beauty. This place is appreciated for its authencity, the meeting richness and the rythm of villagers’ night parties.
- Hot picnic meals and overnight of Day 4, 5, 6 and 7 in bivouac or in traditional huts. Day 8 overnight will be spent in a campement not very far from Tambacounda.
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Day 9 : Tambacounda surroundings
- A.M.: Early breakfast at the campement then drive to visit the surrounding villages along the Gambia river: discover Fulani ethnie group of the Gambia as well as Sarakholé one.
- Sightseeing en route, observe birds and other animals.
- Dinner and overnightat a campement.
Day 10 : Tambacounda – Dakar (450 Km)
- A.M.: Early breakfast at the campement. Today drive leads us to Dakar and have lunch en route.
- P.M.: Arrive Dakar late in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight at a h
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The tour includes :
- - Meeting and assistance upon your arrival and departure
- - Luggage handling in the hotels and campements
- - Local correspondant assistance
- - 10 nights hotel, auberge, campement, bivouac and traditional
- huts accommodation, double occupancy
- - Full board pension during all the trip except the first and
- last night dinner depending on the arrival and departure time;
- - All excursion and site visit in a non air-condition vehicle;
- - Ecological guides fees in national parks;
- - French speaking guide;
- - Cook service in different villages;
- - National park entry fees
- - Mineral water during the trekking in eastern Senegal
- - Insurance throughout all the trip
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The climate of Mali:
» subtropical to arid;
» hot and dry February to June;
» rainy, humid, and mild June to November;
» cool and dry November to February
It is also possible to compose your circuit as you wish,
or
modify an existant one. To do this
build your own trip.
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