Senegal cultural holiday
Description of Senegal cultural holiday
Senegal has a culture that’s as bustling and interesting as its many markets. There are fascinating cities with striking mosques and burgeoning music scenes. The coast is known for its great, sandy beaches. Inland, marvel at the stately baobab trees dotted across the Sahel landscape.
A six-day small group Senegal cultural holiday is an action-packed way to see the country. You’ll see multiple sites a day: walking among enigmatic standing stones one morning and cruising through mangrove forest in the afternoon. Thanks to your driver and the use of local tour guides, you can meet salt harvesters on Pink lake and village elders in Wolof or Fulani villages.
Enjoy cultural highlights: mooch around Dakar’s markets, and gawp at its enormous African Renaissance Monument. The past is never far away, and you can visit Goree Island, near Dakar, where 20 million people were shipped on to the Americas as part of the Atlantic slave trade. The House of Slaves, a museum and memorial to those who were sold into the trade.
Senegal’s natural beauty comes from its diverse landscapes. One of the best for birdlife is its Sine Saloum delta, where flamingos, herons, egrets and spoonbills vie for your attention on river trips.
Travelling in a small group is a great way to move quickly between sights, and be unobtrusive as you visit small villages.
There’s no better place to end a trip than on a beach. The tour ends in Saly, a seaside resort with yellow sand and swaying palms, where you can enjoy the country’s more relaxing side after your busy travels.
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2025: 8 Jan, 22 Jan, 5 Feb, 19 Feb, 5 Mar, 19 Mar, 2 Apr, 16 Apr, 30 Apr, 14 May, 28 May, 11 Jun, 25 Jun, 9 Jul, 23 Jul, 6 Aug, 20 Aug, 3 Sep, 17 Sep, 1 Oct, 15 Oct, 29 Oct, 12 Nov, 26 Nov, 10 Dec
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Planet
Senegal is not only a beautiful country but also a country full of rich historical and cultural life.Our tour is designed to give our travelers an authentic cultural experience whilst helping support communities through the benefits of tourism.
We acknowledge the significance of conserving the environment while promoting tourism for the benefit of local communities as a responsible tour operator.
We've spent a lot of time and money over the years establishing an environmental strategy for our tours. This strategy intends to affect development by promoting awareness, mapping best practices in environmental care, supporting natural resource conservation, protecting all indigenous species, and being aware of environmental concerns.
We have also taken steps to help enhance the ecological and environmental impact of our travel products and services, in addition to these activities.
We do this in a variety of ways, including employing low-energy lighting in hotels, designing easy-to-recycle products and packaging, and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions from our own fleet of vehicles, among other things.
People
The Authentic Cultural experience of Senegal is a unique holiday in which participants get immersed in a different culture. It is not merely a trip through the country, but one that is spent with different Senegalese people, sharing their homes and life, learning their stories, and understanding how they live. However we are careful not to disrupt the traditional way of life of the groups that we visit, most of whom retain strong customs and have not embraced the modern world.The majority of the hotels utilized on these trips are owned and operated by locals. This allows us to offer something of monetary worth to the communities while also ensuring that our visit has a beneficial influence on them by buying locally manufactured goods.
In addition, we hire local guides for several of the tour's activities. These local efforts contribute to the preservation of local customs as well as the principles of wildlife conservation.
The use of a local guide adds value to our visitors' visits since they may receive particular local knowledge and experience from people who live in the region they are visiting on a permanent basis.
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