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See It All – Safari Tour

Banjul, Gambia
  • 6 to 10 hours (approx.)
  • Pickup offered
  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English.

Overview

Immerse yourself in the incredible natural world of Gambia on this full day tour. Leave early in the morning to get up close with sacred crocodiles, symbolizing fertility, at the Katchikally Crocodile Pool. Explore locally produced wood crafts at the Brikama Craft Market. Finish with a boat trip along a creek from the Lamin Lodge, to observe oysters being collected from the mangroves.

What's Included

  • Knowledgeable Local Guide

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup

Pickup point

  • Cape Town Cruise TerminalVictoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, 8002, South Africa

Pickup details

This is a flexible tour where we pick up and drop off guests from their Hotel/Residence or preferred location according to the time that best suits them. We always recommend starting before 9am or after 3 pm as this tour combines walking and driving. This helps keep you out of the midday sun!

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Meeting point

  • Labotessa Luxury Boutique Hotel5 Church Square, Cape Town Central 8001 South Africa

What To Expect

Katchikally Crocodile Pool

The Kachikally Crocodile Pool is one of three sacred crocodile pools in the Gambia. The crocodile is a symbol of fertility and the sacred sites are still used for rituals by women who find difficulties getting pregnant. The legend of crocodiles bringing fertility to women dates back 500 years when the Bojang family first settled in the area. It’s said that the fertility spirit rewarded their kindness by providing them with a magic pool. All they had to do was populate it with wildlife. So, they put two crocodiles in the pool. Locals believe that the original two are ancestral to the crocodiles who inhabit it today. Kachikally crocodile pool is nestled within six acres of tropical forest and there are plenty of nature trails and footpaths to follow if you want to see more of the park.

1 hour

Brikama Craft Market

Brikama is the second largest city after Serekunda and the Brikama woodcarving factory is the largest woodcarving factory in the Gambia. Approximately 200 woodcarvers sell their creations here and you can find various items made from different woodtypes.

1 hour

Lamin Lodge

This excursion is for nature lovers. We start our journey driving to Lamin Lodge. Here we hire a boat (fee for boat not included in trip price) that will take us for a ride on the creek. After 1-2h we arrive at a village called Daranka where we visit the womens garden and see them collecting oysters of the roots of the mangrove. In Daranka there is also a tree that s called the Elephant tree due to its size.

3 hours

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Near public transportation
  • Infants must sit on laps
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

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Reviews

Reviews by tripon.africa travelers.
Great tour guide and great activities
Andrew_S, May 2024
Absolutely amazing experience. Jimmy is a wonderful guide and is extremely helpful in answering questions. The crocodiles are a lot of fun and the boat tour is relaxing. The market can be a little overwhelming but Jimmy did a great job navigating it. Highly recommend.
Jimmy was excellent
colin_p, Apr 2024
We had an amazing guide for the day (Jimmy) who took around and told us about the history and culture of the people in The Gambia. Excellent guide, excellent tour. Thank you
Very helpful and very...
Marcin_D, Apr 2024
Very helpful and very interesting guide you can't get bored.Polite man I decided to book more trips with him.
Brilliant tour
Joel_R, Jan 2024
Incredible tour and amazing tour guide. I would really recommend this tour. It showed lots of amazing places with a really knowledgeable guide.
Go, but don’t go on the river cruise!
William_S, Mar 2023
Jimmy, our guide was great, good English and informative. The actual tour was so so. The Arch was interesting and we had enough time there. Two of the ship tours stopped by while we were there and they only had time for photos from strRead more
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Christopher_S, Dec 2022
We really enjoyed this tour with Jimmy. What an adventure. Riding through the dusty streets of Banjul on December 6, 2022, we got stopped twice by the police, which may have been partly due to a presidential motorcade in progress on its Read more
don’t bother
Sean_K, Nov 2022
waited over an hour to be picked up, sent two messages back response ,i would mo recommend, and use local guides
See Everything- Just Like it Says
Furkan J, Nov 2019
Wirh is a short drive of the resorts on Gambia’s ‘Smiling Coast of Africa’ are a number of interesting sights- crocodile pools, forest reserves, bustling markets, creeks, fishing villages and the like. If you have time, each of these make an intereRead more
Otrevlig upplevelse
Agneta_T, Mar 2020
Oseriös guide. Vi åkte först till Crocodile pool, som var väldigt trevligt att se. Därefter åkte vi till Serekunda marknad som var intressant att se. Men efter detta var det stopp på trevligheterna. På Lamin Lodge skulle vi göra en båttur. Denna skullRead more

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