Example tour 15 days/ 14 nights (you can always change places or lodges on request)
*Day 1: Arrival Banjul airport. Drive to Mandinari River Lodge. Depending on
the arrival time you have time to discover the area around the lodge (Tanbi Wetlands) and the beautiful garden with own bird hide of the lodge.
*Day 2: Morning walk through the mangroves, rice fields and wetlands of Mandinari. Afternoon walk to the petrol station area where many raptors can be found.
(Overnight stay: Mandinari River Lodge)
*Day 3: After breakfast we start driving to Tendaba Camp (142 km) with stop in Farasutu forest on the way going. Arrival in the camp around lunchtime. After being settled in your room you visit one of the two bird hides around the camp.
*Day 4: Breakfast at 7.30am, morning boat trip to the mangroves on the north bank of the river Gambia. After lunch and relax time for the guide, we discover the Kwinella bushtrack.
*Day 5: After breakfast we start driving to Kudang (114 km) Kakuba Garden Hotel. Road birding and stops at wetlands and rice fields on the way going. Lunch in Kakuba Garden and evening walk around the area.
*Day 6: Early breakfast and drive to the next lodge in Kuntaur (73 km) which is situated on the north bank of the river Gambia. We cross the river with the local ferry in Georgetown. Road birding on the way and evening walk through the rice fields in Kuntaur.
(Overnight stay: Kairoh Garden)
*Day 7: Morning walk in Wassu quarry where we meet with the colony of red
throated bee-eaters. In the afternoon, after lunch- and relax time, we do the boat trip to the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project.
*Day 8: After breakfast we drive along the north bank towards Jajari village
(115 km), with road birding and stops on the way. Lunch in Morgan Kunda lodge and relax time in the beautiful garden of the lodge. Evening walk in the surrounding of the lodge.
*Day 9: We take the Senegambia bridge to return to the south bank of The Gambia and stay another night in Tendaba Camp (70 km). In the afternoon we visit the second bird hide.
*Day 10: From Tendaba Camp we start driving to Marakissa (131 km). On the way we make a stop in a bird hide in Killy. Afternoon walk in the surroundings of the camp.
*Day 11: Morning walk at the Marakissa wetlands, the rest of the day we relax in the garden of the lodge where many bird species come for drinking at the little pools that are placed everywhere in the camp.
*Day 12: After breakfast we start driving back towards the coast (36 km), where we will spend the night in Stala Lodge in the village of Kartong in the southwest of The Gambia near the Senegalese border. Evening walk to the wetlands of Kartong.
(Overnight stay: Stala Lodge)
*Day 13: Morning walk to the Kartong Bird watching Observatory and the
beach. After lunch we make a beautiful boat trip on the river Halahin.
*Day 14: After breakfast we start driving to the next lodge (38 km), with stops along the way in Gunjur and Tanji, the famous fish marketplace. After lunch in Tanji we settle in Tanema Creek Lodge for our last night and we make a little walk around the lodge.
*Day 15: Depending on the flight hours, we spend the morning in Kotu or in
Lamin ricefields before driving you back to the airport.