Compose your own journey

 

 

 

On our page tours we give you some examples of journeys we car organize for you. By filling in the form below you can ask the price of one of these journeys or compose your own personal journey. As soon as we receive your form we'll send you a tour proposal with the matching price.

 

 

NB the price is largely dependant on the number of travelers; more numerous you are, less you pay. Please note that we don't compose groups. You can travel on your own, or come forward with a group. You choose the sites you want to visit, you choose the dates of your journey, and you choose your travel companions. We'll organize it according to your wishes. We can, if you wish, join other travelers to your group in order to lower the price. This is only possible for our standardized journey (10 or 15 days tours, or a tour including a visit to the Festival sur le Niger)

 

 

 

 

 

Please find more information about our tariffs on the page tariffs

 

 

 

1. Namen and surname

2. Country

3. Email address

Please repeat your email address  

4. Date you want to start your journey, or (if you don't know the exact date yet) period during which you want to travel NB the Festival on the Niger tours are only organized in January/February, since the festival is allways taking place the first weekend of February.

5. Number of travelers

6. In which language would you like to be guided?

7. Type of accommodation 

NB: Camping is necessary if you travel by boat on the Niger for more than one day, if you want to do trekking for more days in Dogon land and if you want to spend the night in the dessert . If you want to do some camping please bring your own sleeping bag.
8. Type of rooms

9. If you want to make a journey you saw at our page tours please check it off hereunder, and continue with question 12. If you don't want to make one of these journeys, but you prefer to compose your own journey, please don't fill in question 9, but continue directly with question 10.

Fifteen days tour (you can find a description on the page tours). If you choose this tour, please continue with question 12.

Ten days tour (you can find a description on the page tours). If you choose this tour, please continue with question 12.

Festival on the Niger tour, 11 days, January 30 - February 9, 2008 (you can find a description on the page tours). If you choose this tour, please continue with question 12.

Festival on the Niger tour, 13 days, January 23 - February 4, 2008 (you can find a description on the page tours). If you choose this tour, please continue with question 12.

Festival on the Niger tour, 14 days, January 31 - February 13, 2008 (you can find a description on the page tours). If you choose this tour, please continue with question 12.

Segou in two days (you can find a description on the page tours). If you choose this tour, please continue with question 12.

Segou in four days (you can find a description on the page tours). If you choose this tour, please continue with question 12.

Tourist weekend in Segou (you can find a description on the page tours). If you choose this tour, please continue with question 12.

If you've chosen one of the existing tours, please DON'T fill in 10 and 11, but continue at question 12. If you want to compose your own journey, please continue here with question 10:

10. Number of days that you would like to spend in Mali

11. Please check off hereunder every site you would like to visit. To get an idea of where the tourist sites are situated in the country, you can look at the map on the page Mali. 

Bamako, capital of Mali

the craft market

the big mosque,

the women museum Muso Kunda,

prehistorical caves,

the national museum,

a centre for social and professional reinsertion of disadvantaged kids, and the neighbourhood Sikoroni

Ségou, capital of the ancient Bambara kingdom and also an important town in the colonial time:

Sékoro, the ancient city and first capital of the Bambara kingdom

If yes, how would you like to go there (10 km from Segou)?

Picnic for lunch, at the bank of the river Niger under the mango trees of Sébougou,

Kalabougou, the famous pottery village (by boat)

Bozo (fishermen) settlement (by boat, eventually on the way back from Kalabougou)

The Markala dam, built during the colonial age and one of the most important in the world (at 35 km from Segou); on the way back you will visit the canal of Bambougou NTji, dug to satisfy the follies of a young queen who wished to listen to the sound of hippos from her bed room, and the mosque of Dougouba, built in the 9th century.

The colonial neighborhood with its Sudanese architecture ,

A tapestry,

A traditional brewery (millet beer),

Esitex, school for textile industry,

Dinner accompanied by traditional music and  dance,

Ornithologist trip by boat,

Workshop in bogolan making (famous mud painting on textile),

If yes, how many days?

Workshop in pottery

If yes, how many days ?

Workshop in traditional dance

If yes, how many days ?

and how many hours a day?

Workshop in percussion

If yes, how many days ?

and how many hours a day? &

Festival on the Niger, see www.festivalsegou.org (February 2007)

Djenne, founded in the 9th century, received ivory, gold, slaves, wool, cola nuts, from the South, and transported them. Djenne was developed from the 12th century on. Today Djenne is most known for its Sudanese architecture in red loam and its huge and beautiful mosque that's under protection of Unesco. In one day you will visit the whole town: the mosque, the monday market, the grave of Tapama Djenepo (a Bozo girl who was sacrificed (buried alive) to prevent the water of the river to submerge the town, the ancient Moroccan palace, some Koran schools.

 

Mopti is built on three islands that are related by dikes. It's at the same time an important commercial center and an ethnic intersection, at the confluence of the Bani and the Niger. In one day you'll visit the whole town:  the handicraft market, the place where pirogues are manufactured, the pottery market, the harbor, the art gallery in Sevare.

Dogon country: The Dogons left the Manding country to escape Islam in the 15th century and settled down along the cliff of Bandiagara, which is about 200 km long and 200 m high. Because of their isolation, the Dogons have not been much influenced by the outside world and have preserved their culture. Their country is very suitable for walks from village to village.

If yes, how would you like to get around?

And where do you want to spend the night?

How many days would you like to stay in Dogon country?

If you have an idea of the villages you would like to visit, please mention them here

please check of if you want to be accompanied by luggage carriers

please check of if you want to be accompanied by a cook (if not, you can eat what the villagers can prepare for you)

 A Dogon puppet dance
 

Timbuktu : legendary town at the border of the Sahara desert, that occupied a strategic position in the trans Saharan commerce in the past and was at the same time a study center for law and theology. In one day you will visit the whole town: the Djingareiber mosque, built in the 14th century; the house of Gordon Laing, the first European to have reached the town, in 1826, where he was murdered; the house of René Caillé, French explorer, who arrived in Timbuktu in 1828; a museum,

If yes, how would you like to go there?

And how do you want to travel back?

Camel ride into the dessert

Overnight in a Tuareg settlement


 Hombori, the highest point of Mali at 1155 meters. Nearby the village of Hombori one can visit a famous rock, called the Hand of Fatima, because of its form. You will also visit a fishermen village nearby. The whole visit takes one day.

Teriyabougou: the name of the village means « the friendship hut». Teriyabougou is an experimental center for renewable energy, on the bank of the river Bani, founded by a French missionary. He succeeded in creating a real microclimate, with an animal park and kitchen gardens. Whoever loves nature, must absolutely visit this paradise on earth. The visit takes one day.

Sikasso: town in the South of Mali, in the only region that has two harvests a year. This region receives more rain on its own than all the rest of the country together. It is hilly and green. In one day you will visit the whole town: the sacred caves of Missirikoro (you will climb an imposing rock from where you will have a beautiful view on the landscape);  the tea plantation and the waterfalls of Farako; the palace of the last king, from where you will observe the sunset.

Selingue : a little town on the border of the pre-Guinean forest. You will visit: a dam built in the years 1976 to 1982 in an tributary of the Niger, that assures a large part of the electricity of the country; a Bozo (fishermen) village at 2 miles from Selingue, where you will watch the return of the fishermen in the morning; a small promontory with a very nice view on the harbor and the vast water surface; the rice fields at the foot of the dam, with an abundant avifauna. The whole visit takes one day.

Siby : In the heart of the Manding country, you discover the history of the empire of Mali. You'll visit the front door (a rocky arch) of king Soundiata Keita's hiding place. This is where he met his allies. From here you will have a very beautiful sight on the typical landscape of the savanna. This visit takes maximum one day.

If you want to visit other sites, please mention them here: 

12. Remarks (if you have any particular desires, if you don't want to start or end your journey in Bamako, etc, please note it here):

13. Are you a travel agent or a tour operator?Yes No

14. How did you know about Savane Tours


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