Bandia Reserve is a private game reserve 65 kilometres from Dakar near Sally and Mbour. Created in 1990, Bandia is the first private reserve of Senegal.
The reserve offers its visitors a wide variety of typical African savannah animals.
Some noticeable species being :
- the Giraffe
- the White Rhino
- the Roan antelope
- the Waterbuck
- the Kudu
- the Oryx
- the Impala
- the Cape Eland
- the Derby Eland
- the Kob Antelope
- the West African Forest Buffalo
- the Warthog
- the Crocodile
- the Green Vervet Monkey
- the Pata Monkey
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Besides animals, visitors to Bandia Reserve can also observe traditional Peul huts, a reconstitution of a funerary room, some giant baobab trees .
The reserve surface is 1,500 hectares (35 square kilometres), with a project of extension to 3,500 hectares.