Tambacounda : The regional capital Tambacounda is a cosmopolitan town that includes various ethnic groups: Mandinka, Fula, Wolof, Bassaris, Sarakhole, whose ethnological past has been recreated at the regional Museum of Culture.
Do not miss the market at the centre of the Quartier Liberté, an opportunity to buy various local souvenirs, including pearls and typically local incense, the crafts village to buy musical instruments and various crafted objects as well as the fabric market, in the town centre, where clothes can be made up for you in less than a day.

Mako and Kedougou : Located at the exit to Niokolo Koba National Park, Mako offers unrestricted views on the Gambia River where washerwomen come to scrub their linen. You can also meet gold washers along the numerous banks of the Faleme River, on the Malian border.
Kedougou nestles at the foot of rounded hills on the famous gold road. This large village is known for its Ibel marble quarries and traditional lodgings, whose facades are made up of blocks of laterite and decorated with blue or pink marble.
On the border with Mandinka country to the East, Kedougou is the gateway to Bassari country in the West.

Bassari and Bedik countries : An Africa of bush and kapok trees, enclosed villages at the heart of the steep, wild hills, you are at the foot of the Guinean Fouta-Djalon, in Bassari and Bedik country, whose riches remain intact. Exiled to these steep hills in the 19th century when the Fula wanted to subject them to Islam, the Bassari, who are the only people to speak their language, remain loyal to their ancestral customs, and have kept an ancestral way of life alive as well as in near-autarchy from hunting, fishing, picking and farming.Their initiation rites in April and May exert a deep attraction on visitors and don a richly coloured, strangely intense character.
Along with the north, the Sine Saloum and the Casamance areas, hunting amateurs consider Eastern Senegal    a    favourite    hunting destination.

 

See also Niokolo-Koba National Park