Enjoy the Adventure
If you love wild animals and fancy a mini safari, Bandia nature reserve is your best destination.
The Bandia Reserve covers 3,000 hectares where acacias, baobabs and wild mimosas grow.
If you start the excursion from Senegal, we will pick you up at your hotel at 7.30 am.
Once we arrive at the Bandia Reserve, we buy the tickets and a reserve guide goes with us to show us the tracks and how to behave around the animals. If you enjoy photography, you won’t want to put your camera down.
In the reserve we can see native and reintroduced species. In these hectares of wild terrain we can see, among others, warthogs, patas monkeys, giraffes, gazelles, giant tortoises, zebras, antelopes (impala and derby eland), rhinos, ostriches, crocodiles, hyenas and buffalo.
As an optional extra, not included in the price, you can take a short safari in the lion area, where the lions climb onto our vehicles and we can watch them from really close.
Another attraction for many people, especially birdwatchers, is the great number of birds you will see on this excursion. Senegal and The Gambia are known as the countries with the greatest diversity of species in all of West Africa.
After Bandia, we head to the Somone lagoon, a natural setting that grows and changes with the tides. We paddle through its mangroves in a canoe, spotting all kinds of birds (herons, pelicans, flamingos), and we also watch the local women gathering cockles and farming oysters.
After that, transfer to your hotel.
