Our specialty is boat trips on the Saloum River Delta. Here are various options:
Full-day delta discovery
If you want to taste a bit of everything the delta has to offer without sailing for long hours over several days, I have prepared a cruise for you in which you will get a little bit of everything. From Ndangane we will descend to the main flow of the Saloum River, so that you can see its mighty width, then we will ascend one of the branches to the salt wells and continue through narrow channels to the beautiful beach with baobabs. Here we will have a picnic with lunch or just a short break before moving to the island of Mar, where you can visit the village of Marlodj, or a larger circuit of three villages. If we did not have a picnic on the beach, we will have lunch here in a restaurant before heading up the southern arm of the river to the places where flocks of birds nest. After observing them, we will gradually return back to the mainland.
Price: 35000FCFA for one person, 10000FCFA for every additional person.
Optional Marlodj visit: 7000FCFA per group for up to 4; 3 villages 17000FCFA
Transfer from your hotel from 20000FCFA
Half-day birdwatching trip
From Ndangane we glide out around Marlodj Island, slip into the creeks and channels… watch the sky turn gold while pelicans, cormorans, egrets and herons fold up for the night. Then back before dark. Beautiful evening glide.
Price: 20000FCFA for one person, 8000FCFA for every additional person.
Optional Marlodj visit: 7000FCFA per group for up to 4; 3 villages 17000FCFA
Transfer from your hotel from 20000FCFA
Deep delta adventure
This one’s for folks who don’t mind hours on the water—it’s long, slow, real. We push way in, past the usual creeks, into the heart of the islands. Stop at Falia village: wooden pirogues tied up, women pounding millet, kids waving from the shore. Walk the paths, smell the smoke from fish drying, feel the salt on everything. Wonderful mound formed by shells that the ancestors layered here for centuries. Than further through channels and creeks with stops on different beaches along the way for swimming and picnic lunch. Then back—birdwatching along the way: pelicans skimming, cormorants diving, egrets like white ghosts in the mangroves.
Price: 50000FCFA for one person, 15000FCFA for every additional person
With overnight bivouac: 100000FCFA, 30000FCFA for every additional person
Transfer from your hotel from 20000FCFA
Combo 1: Fadiouth + Full Day Delta Discovery or Halfday birdwatching trip
Pick-up at hotel → drive to Fadiouth (shell island walk-through—shell streets, church, sacred baobab,cemetery) → drive to Ndangane for one of the boat trips described above.
Price: extra 5000 to boat trip price
Combo2: Village market+One of the boat trips– Wednesday only
Pick-up from your hotel, easy drive to buzzing village of Ngueniene for weakly market. Walk through animal side: goats, sheep, cows, donkeys, horses—all for sale, all haggling. Than move to stalls of fruits, vegetables, peanuts, bright fabrics, spices, traditional medicine … Then drive to Ndangane and continue to one of the boat trips described above.
Price: extra 5000 to boat trip price
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