1° Excursions
half a day :
MANEGA museum :
departure for
MANEGA and it's "bendrologie" museum, or
tom-tom language, in the bush. You will
find an ethnological real treasure collecting
sacred masks, fetishes, gravestones,
musical instruments than reconstruction of social life scenes. the
museum's conception, which is original, offer you the possibility to
discover, normal size, different types of housings
from Burkina. That is an ideal place for you to be initiate into the
burkinabe's rituals.
During : about 4h30
Rates : base 2 : 35 € /
people and base 4 : 19 € / people.
LAONGO
sculptures : Just
near OUAGA (25 km), in the bush, you will
discover a place where international artists (Africa, Europe, Asia) have
cut granite rocs to give the life to modern
astonishment sculptures. Real masterpieces collected in this
outside strange museum...
During : about 4h00
Rates : base 2 : 20 € / people and base 4
: 12 € / people.
Sacred BAZOULE crocodiles:
30 km from
OUAGA, you will see a big "pond" were are
living in peace about one hundred crocodiles
to whom are offer chickens. What a funny way the "guardian" use to cal
them out of the water ! That animal is sacred, because the legend tee
that when an old crocodile dead or is killed, it's the death omen of an
old man of BAZOULE... Meeting with
tradition and emotions.
During : about 4h00
Rates : base 2 : 20 € / people and base 4
: 12 € / people.
Town trip :
discover
OUAGADOUGOU : its musical museum, its
craftsmen's village, its craftsmen's center where you will have access
to the different workshops in order to discover the bronzes and batik
(tinctures) manufacturing secrets...Be careful to
be loved at first sight !
During :
about 4h00
Rates : base 2 : 12 € / people and base 4
: 7,5 € / people.
2° Excursions
of one day :
Summary
TIEBELE in Gourounsi's country :
departure in the morning towards the south for
Tiebele, in heart of Gourounsi's country,
where you will discover a local architecture absolutely magnificent.
Veritable fortified farms where the huts overlap with some external
stairs conducting to terraces, the all is
decorated with paints made by women. Visit of the Binger's house
at Tiakane. Lunch at
PO.
Rates : base 2 : 86 € /
people and base 4 : 55 € / people.
The Ranch of
NAZINGA :
departure early towards
Pô to visit a reserve
of 940 km2, unless 200 km from Ouaga.
You would see there many mammals such as ...Lunch at the
ranch encampment and return to
Ouaga in the end of the afternoon.
Rates : base 2 : 109 € /
people and base 4 : 69 € / people.
LAONGO /
BAZOULE :
as you want, you should go
to see sacred crocodiles in the morning,
for example, and Laongo's
sculptures in the afternoon. Lunch is in
your charge in Ouaga.
Rates : base 2 : 39 € /
people and base 4 : 21€ / people.
MANEGA / KAYA
:
after the visit of the
atypical museum of Manega, you will join
KONGOUSSI for the lunch, then you will go
to KAYA. Visit of the city : the market and
the workshops of leather's craftsmen, very
famous in Burkina. A journey which will be for you the opportunity for a
good initiation into Mossi's culture (the largest ethnic group in
Burkina).
Rates : base 2 : 76 € /
people and base 4 : 49 € / people.
3° Excursions
in two days :
Summary
Mossi plateau :
departure for
MANEGA and its museum
of "bendrologie". Lunch in a restaurant in
KONGOUSSI, near the Bam's lake. Then you will join
KAYA, crossing landscapes of hills ;
stopover at the lake of Dem for a stroll in
dugout canoe. Arrival in the end of afternoon at Kaziende's hotel.
Visit of the gold's mine of
Mane : when the rural work permit it, men, women and children search
some meagre nugget of gold in holes as deep as 50
m ! The African version of "the rush towards gold"... You should
also see the blacksmith’s work : craftsmen, tradition's hollers, the
raining masters, the protectors of the
villager community. After noon, visit of the market and leather
craftsmen, then return to Ouaga that we
shall reach in the end of the afternoon, after a stopover to admire
LAONGO's sculptures.
Rates : base 2 : 190 € /
people and base 4 : 151 € / people.
Rates in full board, base
double room (without drinks and visas). Vehicle, fuel, guides,
translator and driver included.
The Ranch of NAZINGA:
two days
to benefit fully of this reserve, not far from
Ouaga, grooved by 600 km of tracks.
Our driver, guided by a
tracker of the reserve, will attempt to make you
benefit from this vision safari. You will go to in search of
antelope, gazelles, monkeys and of course elephants... With a little
luck, you will see also buffaloes. Besides
the animals species, the Nazinga ranch also
has interesting vegetation : baobab, mahogany and gigantic silk-cotton
trees under which the animals rest.
You will be accommodated and will eat in the ranch
encampment. You will come back in Ouaga
after the last lunch and making a stopover in
Gourounsi country to admire huts attractively decorated.
Rates : base 2 : 183 € /
people and base 4 : 119 € / people.
Rates without plane in
full board, base double room (without drinks and visas and photos
taxes in the Ranch). Vehicle, fuel, guides,
translator and driver included.
4° Short tours (3 and 4 days) :
Summary
Unforgettable Sahel 3 days :
It’s a monotonous
region, even sinister. Covered by grasses, a few dries tree witness the
ever-progressive attack of desert. With these conditions, why show an
interest in this region? To permit you to meet
various tribes and ethnic groups who have in interaction. The
TUAREGS, often people of extreme
beauty, draped in luminous indigo gandouras,
the pirates and princes of the desert have forced them into a
sedentary life. The BELLAHS, farmers,
who have remained loyal to these lords of the desert. The
PEULHS, nomads of the sun, with their
herds in permanent search of pasture. The
SONGHAIS, with their beautiful made-mud villages…
You will see them
in the markets ; a place to exchange
goods, information, and gossip. A true mixture of colors and
smells is guaranteed.
DAY 1 :
departure early morning from Ouagadougou. After lunch, you will join
GOROM GOROM to visit this nice city and its
famous Tuesday’s market. At the end of the afternoon you will go to
MARKOYE to reach
ZIGUIBERY’s encampment, for the diner and the night.
DAY 2 :
following unmarked trails
(the guide knows his way), we will cross through small villages
seemingly “at the end of the world”. We will arrive in
OURSI, where
sand dunes and a pond are covered by thousands of
birds, which share this magnificent
landscape and give witness to the delicate ecological equilibrium.
We will come back in GOROM GOROM where you will spend the night in the encampment or in
bivouac.
DAY 3 :
after the visit of the village of
BANI and its famous 7
mosquees, return to OUAGADOUGOU.
Lunch in KAYA, visit to the craftsmen, then
arrival at the end of the afternoon in Ouaga.
Rates : base 2 : 399 € /
people and base 4 : 257 € / people.
Rate
full board (without drinks and
visa)
base double room.
Vehicle 4x4 with AC, driver-guide,
gasoline, translater, taxes and visits included.
Photo
Steven WEINBERG
Unforgettable Sahel 4 days :
DAY
1 :
departure early morning from Ouagadougou. After lunch, you will join
GOROM GOROM to
visit this nice city and its famous Tuesday’s
market. At the end of the afternoon you will go to
MARKOYE to reach
ZIGUIBERY’s encampment, for the diner and the night.
DAY 2 :
following unmarked trails
(the guide knows his way), we will cross through small villages
seemingly “at the end of the world”. We will arrive in
OURSI, where
sand dunes and a pond are covered by thousands of
birds, which share this
magnificent landscape and give witness to
the delicate ecological equilibrium.
You will go in the north to
dinner and spend the night in a nice tuareg
encampment, in GANDEFABOU.
DAY 3 :
on unmarked trails again,
you will join DEOU, then
ARIBINDA, where you could see
ancestral pictures in the rocks. After a
picnic, you will join DORI to spend the
night in Oasis hotel, or similar.
DAY 4 :
after the visit of the village of
BANI and its famous 7
mosquees, return to OUAGADOUGOU.
Lunch in KAYA, visit to the craftsmen, then
arrival at the end of the afternoon in Ouaga.
Rates : base 2 : 475 € /
people et base 4 : 311 € / people.
Rate full
board (without drinks and
visa)
base double room.
Vehicle 4x4 with AC, driver-guide,
gasoline, translater, taxes and visits included.
Wildelife discovery 4 days :
this easy tour and relatively
comfortable is done in 4x4 for 14 December to 15
May. All nights take place in comfortable encampment, ventilated
or air-conditioned. If you search the change of scene, the
great spaces and wild life, this tour will
reply to your attempt by the variety and the abundance of the fauna and
the landscapes.
DAY 1 :
departure of Ouagadougou towards the East, lunch towards
FADA (or KOUPELA), capital of the province
of Gourma and the last big city before the
frontier of Niger.
Diner and night at the encampment-hotel of PORGA,
just after the
border
of Benin.
DAY 2 :
departure early morning to join the PENDJARI
park. We shall make our first outing in the
reserve in search of bubales, hyppotragues, cobs, phacocheres,
elephants and lions. Diner and night at the hotel of Pendjari (
swimming pool and air-conditioned rooms).
DAY 3 :
after a
dive and a good breakfast, we shall go to directly
to the Bali' s pound. Here, you will be wondered by all of kinds
of fantastic ballet of animals. According
to the season, you will join PORGA, either
by the valley of Pendjari, or we shall make a detour by the Tanougou' s
water-fall then TANGUIETA. Night at the
hotel of Kompienga
(Burkina Faso).
DAY 4 :
we shall
take again the road of OUAGA. We shall
visit LAONGO, where you will admire the
sculptures on blocs of granite, in the open
air. Arrival in the end of the afternoon in
Ouagadougou.
Rates : base 2 : 766 € /
people and base 4 : 489 € / people.
Rate
full board (without drinks and
visa)
base double room.
Vehicle 4x4 with AC, driver-guide,
gasoline, translater, taxes and visits included.
Summary
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