My rate is fixed, no negotiation or surprises. Like this is clearer for travellers.
One sole client: 10 euros per person and day. Two clients: 7 euros per person and day. From three clients: 5 euros per person and day.
I prefer small groups between two and six people. I think it is better to attend you properly and take the most of the trip. Travelling expenses, transport, meals and accommodation are apart and will be paid by you (you will pay directly to taxi drivers, restaurants and hostels, I don’t get any commission). My meals, accommodation and transport are also paid by you, except in Kafountine, where I have a house and will sleep there.
I suggest a trip to immerse you in the Senegalese life. We will travel in seven places taxis or in our vans. We will eat in road restaurants or near markets. I will tell you about meals and how they are cooked. We will meet people at random who will tell us their lives: “I have a tailor’s shop in Kafountine”, “I’m a fisherman” or “I travel to Dakar”, etc.
We will stay preferably in hostels run by Senegalese. In case you prefer more comfort, we can hire a 4x4 with driver and search for better hotels. We will travel faster and will see more things but coexistence with people from my country would be then harder. To give you an idea of costs, a baguette is 100 cefas. Overnight, from 3500 cefas; a fishing day in Kafountine, 10000 cefas; transport between Dioloulou and Kafountine, 600 cefas; from Ziguinchor to Dioloulou, 1500 cefas…
One euro is worth about 650 cefas.
If you are very fond of ornithology or like mushrooms, or you’d rather sail than travel with car, tell me and we will try to adapt your trip to your hobbies: boat trip from Dakar to Ziguinchos, sailing and fishing in “bolongs”, visit to the birds isle, walk along the fields… you decide what to do or see.
Useful information:
Visas, Passports and other: at present (2011) a visa is not necessary to travel to Senegal. The Passport and vaccination record are essential (have it always on you, usually the military and policemen ask for them). To travel to the Bijagos Islands of Bissau a visa is necessary, but it is contracted at once in Ziguinchor (Senegal). Bring some photographs. If you arrive to Senegal via Banjul (Gambia) you will have no problem to leave Gambia but you will have to pay a visa to return to Gambia if you are going back via Banjul. Government stuff. It is paid at the border and is equivalent to some 20 euros/person.
Advice:
* a small first aid kit with those medicines you usually take or you’re going to need, better with their prescription. Sometimes policemen ask for them. Mosquito repellent (we will always sleep with mosquito nets). And essential things: sticking plasters, soap, iodine, adhesive tape… Due to humidity and climate, wounds must be properly cleaned to prevent infection. Do not forget medicines for the diarrhoea or gastrointestinal disorders. There is less and less malaria, but consult your sanitary authorities of your country.
* a dry cleaning product for hands (usually it is difficult to have them washed with water in restaurants or when not staying in hostels). Take some toilet paper as well; it is difficult to find some in Senegalese toilets.
* it is better to consume bottled drinks: water, beer, coke…
** try to wear comfortable and hard-wearing cloths and shoes. If you travel during rainy season (from June to October) take a thin raincoat and an umbrella. Torrential rains that take a few hours are typical.
Ask whatever you think important frederiquesagna@gmail.com or Tel. de Senegal 00221 774484423
