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Pink Lake and Bandia Wildlife Reserve Experience: Unique Safari and Astonishing Pink Water Sight
4.5
24 Ratings
Saly
Our company is with 13 years experience of guiding. We put together this two different experience bandia wildlife safari will close to the different wildlife animals. Pink lake when the color of water is pink lake its unique.
Our company is with 13 years experience of guiding. We put together this two different experience bandia wildlife safari will close to the different wildlife animals. Pink lake when the color of water is pink lake its unique.
Duration:
7 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Reserve De Bandia - We picking you up with private car with Air condition at your lodging in Dakar or Saly at 9:00am.
Drive 1h 15 minutes drive from Dakar or 1h drive from Saly.
Arrive in Bandia wildlife reserve swech the car using 4×4 safari truck. The visit is 1 and half hour to 2 hours.
After drive 1 hour to pink lake have lunch break after boat…
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Reserve De Bandia - We picking you up with private car with Air condition at your lodging in Dakar or Saly at 9:00am.
Drive 1h 15 minutes drive from Dakar or 1h drive from Saly.
Arrive in Bandia wildlife reserve swech the car using 4×4 safari truck. The visit is 1 and half hour to 2 hours.
After drive 1 hour to pink lake have lunch break after boat ride in lake free time 30 minutes. in case if you extra activities like ATV sand dunes jeep they’re extra.
What's Included
- All applicable fees and taxes included
- All applicable fees and taxes included
What's Not Included
- Carbonated beverages
- Lunch
- Carbonated beverages
- Lunch
Location
Reserve De Bandia
N 2 Route de Mbour,
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.5
(24 Ratings)
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Letticia_c
Aug 25, 2024
Worthwhile Excursion! - We had a wonderful, unforgettable day with Malang! Him and his driver arrived promptly, the journey was pleasantly smooth and comfortable. Malang generously shared plenty of information about the local area and Senegalese culture and landscape. Would highly recommend you book with him if you are visiting and looking for excursions!
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Vera
Apr 4, 2024
Great! We recommend! - It was wonderful!
The animal reserve is authentic, everything is well organized.
The boat trip too!
We genuinely saw what we really wanted in the program!
Our guide was 5*
Thank you very much 💫
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Outi_s
Mar 29, 2024
Yoyo was very friendlyand... - Yoyo was very friendlyand helful and our driver skillfull and polite.
We learned a lot about Senegal
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Taniyad2024
Jan 30, 2024
THE ABSOLUTE BEST!! 10/10 - My mom & I had an amazing time. The whole day was just perfect. The safari was majestic! And the river was so interesting! The dune ride in the sands was beautiful as well. We had the absolute BEST tour guide, Malang, who was SO knowledgeable & spoke English very well. Aside from the tour, my mom is elderly & Malang was so attentive, patient, and compassionate with her. He was all around a beautiful person. Barra was our driver & he knows the streets so well & drives very nicely! He was also very helpful & compassionate with my mom which is so appreciated. The best guide & driver, ever. Much love!
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Zakiaj2024
Jan 4, 2024
Great Safari! - My 7 year old and I went to Bandia today. We had a fabulous experience. Our guide, Amadou, arrived promptly at our hotel and was very kind. In fact, when I realized I had left my phone at the hotel, he let me take pictures with his. 🥰
We saw so many animals. We saw a variety of birds, giraffes, antelopes, monkeys, ostriches, rhinos, and my favorite, ZEBRAS.
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Danielle_p
Dec 31, 2023
Relaxing and Entertaining - Our Tour Guide was fabulous. I enjoyed every minute. He was informative and kind, and he made us feel at ease.
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Marky1970
Nov 29, 2023
Excellent compant and excellent trips. - We booked a few trips with Trip Tour Senegal, both times communication was excellent quick replies from Mika and our guide Abdoulaye. We only had a short time in Senegal so wanted to do as much as we good, seeing Bandia and Pink lake in one trip and Goree and Dakar in another was a perfect way to do this. Pick-up times were spot on and Abdoulaye was a excellent guide, funny and kind and always looking out for us, able to go at our own pace.
Bandia was great we had a jeep for ourselves which was perfect, the park guide even took some great photos for us on our phone too so could just use camera. Pink lake while sadly not pink currently was really good and then a jeep ride round lake and onto beach was great, we could have got ATV's and driven ourselves but plumped for jeep to enjot scenery more.
Goree on our second trip was a great day out, we forgot our ID which we needed for ferry, but Abdoulaye sorted that out with some smooth talking. To really see both Goree and Dakar fully in same day is maybe a bit much, but we simply did not have time to visit on seperate days, but if we had more time I think that would have been better. But we knew this in advance, so that was our choice for a whistle stop tour of Dakar.
The advantage of a private tour as opposed to a group one is ability to do as suits you and this was where Trip Tour Senegal excelled.
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Beritths_v
Feb 6, 2024
Flexible trip due to change of plans - Since we due to change of plans, already had been to the pink lake (incl. jeep travel in the sand; note the lake is not pink as of Jan/Feb 2024 but there are initiatives to drain it for surplus water after a flooding, for the algae to grow and give back the color, may be later in 2024) earlier in our vacation, the guide and driver were flexible and we instead went to the most western point of Senegal and Africa for photos overlooking the lighthouse before travelling to the Bandia reserve. Traffic takes time. Bandia is more of an open zoo, but the Senegal eland is rare, impressive and worth a visit. There were also imported South-African animals in the fenced-in park. If you never have done other safaris, it is an opportunity to see during the appr. 2hr safari drive (may need to share vehicle with other guests) some wildlife including e.g., giraffes, rhinos, various antelopes, and crocodiles by the restaurant- the hyenas are typically sleeping in their den during day time. Since we skipped the pink lake and had some extra time, we were offered to visit the mangroves of Somone (boat ride 1 hr was an added cost) which we accepted. This gave us a full day including initial hunt for an official office to get transit stamp by gate II in Dakar harbor, as well as ending our travel at the airport. Thanks to our guide and driver for being flexible.
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Gmv8hd8qhv
Jun 9, 2024
Pleasant day At bandy reserve and A boat ride - We were picked up at 9 AM sharply, but then we were told the pink lake is no more pink so there was no reason to go there. I was highly disappointed. We went on the Safari was very nice after we were taken to another place where we went on a boat ride to see the lagoon, there was nothing spectacular about it overall it was a pleasant trip but not worth the money We paid if I knew that the pink lake was not included. I wouldn’t even bother. They should let us know before hand that the pink lake is no more pink so we don’t spend that kind of money to just basically go on a safari.
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Ray_e
Jul 4, 2024
Rip off. Poor customer service - Did not get a private tour. We were delayed 1.25 hours waiting on a second bus in our 2 bus caravan. Did not go to Pink Lake cruise or even get to see it.
Called viator and filed a claim. Got a claim number and got no response from them. I requested a partial refund.
It's a shame they have such terrible customers service, because I am on a World Cruise and planned on booking quite a few excursions with Viator.
My ranking is 1/2 star.
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