Highlights of the offer :
A complete immersion in a perfectly authentic Senegal. Away from beaches, nightclubs and mass tourism, you will discover the human reality in all its richness : in these preserved places where you will be welcomed by the traditional “Teranga” a tourist becomes a traveller.
Day 1 : Dakar – Pink Lake
Reception at Dakar airport and transfer to hotel Brousse Keur Djinné at Pink Lake.
Dinner and overnight. Hotel Keur Djinné will be your place of residence during the whole tour. Looking for emotion and adventure? This place will amaze you for its originality and economic stay.
You will be in direct contact with the population, the staff of the hotel Brousse keur Djinné being a part of the rural community of Niague will contribute to make you stay off the beaten track.
Day 2 : Around the Pink Lake.
After breakfast, you will get on a 4x4 for a tour around the lake, where you will meet the salt collectors and discover peulhs villages. You will also go through the dunes where used to arrive the competitors of Rally Paris - Dakar. For lunch, you will enjoy a Senegalese speciality “Yassa” chicken followed by three teas, a small nap on hammocks, your afternoon spent at leisure at the swimming pool.
Day 3 : At the Benedictins.
After breakfast, visit the Benedictins’ monastery in the village of Keur Moussa. It was inaugurated in 1963, in the presence of the president of the Republic, Mr. L.S. Senqhor. Nine monks from the French monastery of solesmes initially constituted this foundation. They came to Senegal to offer the Christians of the country the possibility to lead a contemplative life according to their religious and cultural traditions. Some young Senegalese were attracted by the ideal of the monastic life. The monks conducted an adaptation work, by making a liturgical use of African melodies and musical instruments, in collaboration with the clergy and the secular Senegalese. Masses on Sunday morning are well known for their music. (You can attend the mass if your visit falls on a Sunday). To manage living as much as possible with hand work, monks cultivated the land they had and that which now produces, with the help of a drilling, fruits and vegetables. A small cheese dairy enables manufacture of goats’cheese realized by the monks themselves with milk from herds in the region. Broiler poultry farms, as well as a workshop producing koras supplement the economic activities of the monastery.
Meal and overnight in keur Djinné.
Day 4 : An approach to rural life in Africa.
After breakfast, you dive into the authentic Africa: visit of the Senegalese agricultural villages in carts (market gardening area, villages). Introduction to pounding millet, visit of the health post "Thierry Sabine".
Back to hotel Keur Djinné. Lunch, and afternoon will be spent at leisure.
Day 5 : Senegalese villages and ride in dug-out canoe.
After breakfast, you will leave in direction of Keur Massar (12kms). Visit the village of Niague and the hospital known for its treatment by plants.
Return to the Pink Lake. Lunch, then in the afternoon, a stroll in the dugouts on the salt lake.
Day 6 : Village of Turtles.
After breakfast, you leave with the group to discover the village of turtles, created in 1996.
The village of turtles is primarily a tool for study and preservation of threatened species and also restocking, in controlled areas of reserves and national parks. It permits nature lovers to discover reptiles often impressive, such as the furrowed giant tortoise: the largest mainland tortoise in the world that can weigh up to100 kg and live 150 years.
The visit is fascinating. We can attend a live birth or a repair of a fractured shell.
Return to hotel Keur Djinné, lunch, afternoon at leisure.
Day 7 : The return of Fishermen.
Leisure morning. For your last afternoon in Senegal, we have programmed a quad ride (1 quad bike for two persons) towards the fishing port of Kayar, to attend the arrival of the fishermen, then return to pink lake to hotel Keur Djinné. Dinner and overnight.
Day 8 : End of the tour.
Leisure day, until transfer to the airport according to your flight schedule.
What to know?
The departure is guaranteed for 2 persons minimum. A quad bike for two persons. The order of visits can be reversed for technical reasons. Every participant must ensure of his/her good physical condition to participate in this trip.
One week extension is possible in a seaside resort. See our hotel descriptions and contact us.
Spare time! How to spend it ? :
The hotel Brousse Keur Djinné is the ideal place for the amateurs of spontaneous and leisure stay and in touch with the population.
From the Pink Lake you can make excursions to the main mythical sites of Senegal: Gorée, Dakar, the beaches of the Small Coast, the park of the Islands of Saloum.
You can swim or rather "float" in the lake where salinity’s exceptional.
You can walk in the dunes to reach the edge of the ocean which on this coast is majestic and impressive, stroll around in quad bike or 4x4 (on request and paid locally in addition to those provided in the program).
