Tour Guide
Tour Guide
Songhai Tours offer wide range of services: house sale and rental, hotel recommendations, hotel booking assistance, airport transfers, bike cycle rental services car sales and rental services, we can help you to hire a rental vehicle from the Gambia, etc. Our services also include visits to nature park, safari centers, historical sites, fishing centers, river cruise excursions, boat trips, visiting local markets, visiting Cassamance, Senegal etc.
The Fathala Game Park is located at 12 Kilometres of the North of The Gambian / Senegalese border in Senegal.
You will be picked up early morning from your hotels to drive to Banjul, the capital city where we join the ferry to Barra and experience the hustle and bustle with the local people. In the reserve, you can enjoy the natural environment of the bush and get the chance to spot animals as zebras, rhinoceros, giraffes, monkey and many more.
Pick up from the hotels and drive to the first village in the South of the Country, Sukuta Village. Here we visit the local fish/vegetable market. This gives you a real taste of Africa and shows the daily shopping and selling of the local people, as markets are open every day and people in the Gambia always buy fresh food on a daily basis. This is because not all people here can afford fridges or live in very rural areas where there is no electricity.
After visiting the market, we will drive on to Yuna Village where we will visit a primary school where guests will be brief on our education system. Later on, we proceed to drive through the bushes to Samyang Village, where will be at the Paradise Beach for lunch, enjoying the breeze of the Atlantic Ocean. From there we drive to Tanji Village Museum where the natural history and traditional culture of The Gambia is presented in an interesting and accessible way to tourists, Gambians, local inhabitants and school groups.
An early start is needed as the drive takes just under one hour to the Makasutu cultural forest. You will be picked up from your respective hotels around 08:00 AM.
Makasutu is a palm forest situated on the banks of a beautiful meandering tributary of the River Gambia (Madina Bolon), encompassing many different ecosystems including dense forest, savanna and mangrove regions. The environment encompassing this forest is home to hundreds of varieties of birds, 3 species of monkeys, monitor lizards, pygmy deer, man goose to name but a few-and if you are lucky, you may catch a glimpse of migrating baboons, that make the forest their home for a number of months each year.
This is an excursion which takes you over 300 KM into The Gambia and it also gives you a chance of seeing most parts of the country and seeing very old monuments, the famous Stone Circles for example.
Our first stop will be Fort Bullen in Barra which is the first antislavery Fort built. The visit will be guided by a Fort guide who will give a detail history of the significance of the Fort. Afterwards, a stop will be made at the Wassu Stone circles where we explain the nature of the stone circles, their history and how they came to exist. From there we head to Kuntaur for a 4 hours’ boat trip along the River Gambia. Afternoon, we arrive to Jang Jang Burreh Camp where we will relax and dine and enjoy folkloric music by the villagers. The next day we walk around the camp for bird watching and animal spotting.
Jang Jang Burreh (Georgetown) is the name given to the island by a brother and sister who discovered it. Jang Jang Burreh is also the administrative centre for the central river division, which also has the office and residence of the commissioner.
This trip will last for about half the day, up till about 2-3. The first stop of the tour will be at Serrekunda, the largest town in the country, where you will visit the ‘tie and dye’ batik factory. After having a look at the batik’s, the drive continues to the sacred crocodile pool in Bakau, where you will have an inside visit of the traditional museum before walking around the pool. Afterwards, we head to the capital, Banjul, where the guide explains the history of the surrounding area and the city stopping at the National Museum followed by the Albert’s Market, where African Souvenirs can be purchased.
This is an exclusive and quality day on a 60ft modern Gambian styled pirogue.
This very scenic route will enable you to take in some of the many species of bird and river life whilst soaking up the calm and relaxing atmosphere that this cruise offers. For the keen bird-spotter, binoculars and bird books are readily available.
Gambian Home Cooking centre will give you the opportunity to spend the day in true Gambian style and learn how to cook a typical Gambian meal. After a short drive we will arrive at the “Ya Boye” home cooking centre were our host will welcome us and gives us a short orientation of the program of the day. A short drive later on will take us to Tanji Market were we collect our local products which we will use for our dish of the day, from the market we return back to the centre to take part in the making of the food from stage to stage.
The day starts with an early pickup from the hotels taking us to Banjul to catch up with the ferry. A 35-minute ferry crossing takes us to the north bank of the River Gambia at Barra. Our first visit will be at Fort Bullen which was established by the British in 1823 for the abolition of the Slave Trade. There will be a guided tour within the fort premises and the guide will point out the strategic location of the fort and how it played an important role during the abolition of the slave trade. Few minutes of driving will then take us to Jerreh Camp which is situated in the dense forest of Niumi, in the North Bank Region of the mouth of River Gambia where we will observe the processing of the Palm Wine and Palm Oil. A taste of the jungles Palm Wine (Jungle Juice) will be experienced.
Departure from your hotels after breakfast at 08.30hrs. The drive takes us to the Makasutu Cultural Forest. Makasutu is a Palm forest situated on the banks of a beautiful meandering tributary of The River Gambia, encompassing many different eco-systems including dense forest, savanna and mangrove regions. From Makasutu, the drive continues to the Sindola Safari in Kanilai, situated in the Foni District for an overnight stay where dinner will be served. On the second day, the drive continues to the Tendaba Camp which is situated at the river side of the Kiang West National Park where you will be taken on a boat trip through the mangroves where you encounter a lot of birds. On the third day, we will visit Kartong, where the Sandele Lodge is located and also the reptile farm which ranges different species of of reptiles.
Senegambia Strip.
Bertil Harding Highway.
Senegambia Kololi.
The Gambia.
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