DAKAR TO BRAZZAVILLE

Dakar to Brazzaville
West African Overland Tour

114 Days: 109 Days:	Dakar to Brazzaville OR Brazzaville to Dakar
Price:	NZ$9765 AU$7530 £4650 Other currencies: www.xe.com

This is the ultimate West African Overland Tour. You will drive through the incredible scenery in the Guinean highlands then journey between northern Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast via Guinea. You drive through remote areas where there is no tourist infrastructure, bush camp off the truck for days at a time and meet corrupt officials. You will be delayed at borders and checkpoints, but you will be overlanding through a stunning part of West Africa few others get to see. From Nigeria, to the ruggedly beautiful mountains of northern Cameroon and the lush rainforests of Gabon and Congo, you continue on an adventure you will never forget. From the moment you enter Nigeria, all the way down to Brazzaville, you journey from West into Central Africa and will be one of the first to overland through northern Cameroon. This truly is West African Overlanding at its best - unpredictable and challenging, but ultimately rewarding and truly captivating.This is absolutely a tour of a lifetime - little will compare..

VISIT: Senegal, Gambia, Senegal (Casamace), Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon and Congo.

TOUR OVERVIEW

Duration:	114 days Southbound 109 days Northbound
Start Point:	Dakar OR Brazzaville
Finish Point:	Brazzaville OR Dakar
Accommodation:	Camping, Bush Camping Hostels / Hotels
Meals:	2 meals per day while on the truck
Transport:	Overland tour vehicle
Staff:	Tour Leader / Driver + Local Guides
Max Group Size:	20
Local Tour Payment:	EURO 1220.00 pp

TOUR INCLUSIONS:

Transport on safari truck. All meals while camping, camping fees, activities listed as included ie a donation to the Tribewanted project in Sierra Leone, entrance fees to Tiwai Island Nature Reserve, Gola Forest Reserve, and Mole National Park. Guided walking safari in Mole National Park, Ghana. Entrance fee to the Basilique de Notre Dame De La Paix. St George's Castle and Cape Coast Castle. Entrance fee to Kintampo waterfalls in Ghana. Donation to the C.R.E.E.R project in Ivory Coast, Boat trip at Ganvie, Benin to see the stilt villages, guided tour of the museums and palaces of Abomey in Benin, entrance fees to Yankari, Gashaka-Gumti, Lope, and Lefini National Parks/Reserves, entrance to the Wiki Warm Springs in Yankari National Park, fees to visit the Lowland Gorilla Conservation Project in the Lefini Reserve in Congo run by the Aspinall Foundation.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Dakar, the Gambia River, boat trips in the Baobolong Wetlands and The Kiang West National Park, the Casamance region of Senegal, the colonial port city of Bissau, Saltinho waterfalls, Guinea’s Fouta Djalon, the Tribewanted community project in Sierra Leone, Freetown, the Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, the hiking trails of The Gola Forest Reserve, the Guinee Forestiere, Yamoussoukro - capital of Ivory Coast, the Centre de Réinsertion et Education des Enfants de la Rue en Cote D’Ivoire (C.R.E.E.R) community project, Ghana’s Gold Coast, St George’s Castle at Elmina, the Kejetia Market in Kumasi, guided safari walk in Ghana’s Mole National Park, bush camping on the shores of Lake Volta, old colonial mansion at L’Auberge Grand Popo, Benin, Ouidah on Benin’s Slave Coast, the Routes Des Esclaves (Road of Slaves), Pirogue ride onto Lake Nakoue, the stilt village of Ganvie, Abuja - the National Mosque, Presidential Palace and Millennium Park, the Wiki Warm Springs in Yankari National Park in Nigeria, hiking the superb trails of the Gashaka-Gumti National Park in Eastern Nigeria, bush camping in the Cameroon Highlands, the lunar landscape of Rhumski, Lagdo Bleu and Lagdo Djiborde hotel camp nights, the Sultans Palace in Foumban, Yaounde, Gabon and The Republic of Congo, a guided walk or boat ride in Lope National Park in Gabon, Western Lowland Gorillas at the Aspinall Foundation Gorilla Conservation Project on The Bateke Plateau in the Congo, bustling Brazzaville