Day: 1 Arrival in Dakar
Welcoming and assistance at the airport - police
formalities - transfer to the hotel - welcome drink - Dinner and overnight in Dakar
Day: 2 DAKAR
Breakfast at the hotel - Short walking and visit
of Dakar - visit on the theme "African cultural sources in Senegal and
Gambia" , by a teacher of the university of Dakar - Complete visit of
Dakar in the afternoon - Welcoming dinner in a typical Senegalese restaurant -
Overnight in Dakar
Day: 3 GOREE ISLAND
Breakfast and departure for a pilgrimage on the
Island There, you will visit the slaves' house
followed by some minutes’ silence in the memory of those Africans who
definitely went to America for slavery - A conference on the theme <<
Three hundred years' slave trade in West Africa >> will be organised for
the visitors - You will -then- visit the history museum - the fortress - and
have a talk with the inhabitants on the island - Return to Dakar in the afternoon where you will spend
the night.
Day: 4 FREE DAY IN DAKAR
Day:
5
THE PINK LAKE
Breakfast and departure to visit the Pink Lake
and its neighbouring villages where you will get in touch with the local
population and meet different village chiefs - You will finally attend a naming
ceremony lead by the notables of the old village.
Day:
6
DAKAR
Farwell dinner in a restaurant - overnight in Dakar
Day: 7 DAKAR – BAMAKO
Late in the afternoon, transfert to the airport
- police formalities and departure for Bamako - Arrival - Welcoming - Visit -
Transfer - and settling at the hotel. Late in the afternoon, transfert to the
airport - police formalities and departure for Bamako - Arrival - Welcoming -
Visit - Transfer - and settling at the hotel.
Day: 8 BAMAKO
– TOMBOUCTOU
Breakfast early in the morning and departure for
the mysterious city of Timbuktu by domestic flight - Setting at the Azalaï
Hotel or similar - Visit of town - you will see the main mosques (Sankoré, Djingareiber,)
explorers’ houses (René CAILLE, BARTH etc...) the municipal museum, a short
walk in the common quarters, tour in camel back in the afternoon - Dinner and
overnight in Timbuktu.
Day: 9 TIMBUKTU
–MOPTI
Early in the morning departure for Mopti by ‘4X4 - Settling at the Kanaga hotel - Visit of
Mopti - The mosque - the common quarters - the fishing port - tour in canoes in
the afternoon during which you will visit some Bozo fishing villages settled
along the river. Overnight in Mopti.’
Day: 10 MOPTI - DJENNE –MOPTI
Departure towards the weekly
market at Djenné, a perfect opportunity to witness the wide variety of ethnic
group who live along the Niger River valley.
This is also a good time to admire the remarkable adobe forms of the so-called
Sudanese architecture. Return to Mopti in the afternoon. Overnight in hotel.
Day:
11 MOPTI – DOGONLAND
From Mopti you will go
to discover the Dogon land - As soon as we arrive, we shall settle in the
encampment of Sangha - Visit the village - With the help of a Dogon guide, you
will learn everything on the history, tradition and cosmogony of the Dogon
people - you will go down the cliffs to attend a symbolic Dogon mask dance -
Overnight in Sangha.
Day: 12 DOGON COUNTRIES
When you leave Sangha, you will go past the village of Songo where you will see the high places
of circumcision in the Dogon land before reaching Mopti. Setting in the
encampment - Lunch and canoeing on the River Niger - Overnight in Mopti
Day: 13 MOPTI –BAMAKO
Once more, you will go to the Mopti-Sévaré
airport and board for Bamako by domestic flight
- Settling in Grand hotel - Overnight in Bamako
Day:
14 BAMAKO – flight
Free morning for your shopping and private trips
- transfer to the airport late in the afternoon and flight ending an African
journey through the two representatives of the African tradition and culture.