| Duration: | 8 Hour(s) - 0 Minute(s) |
| Tour Category: | Full Day Tours |
Bush Market – Joal Shell Island
Departure this morning for the inlands, we will stop and visit an open-air market, which we call African bush markets.
Authentic and weekly open-air markets, where locals come for shopping or bartering. From the cattle fair, where horses, zebus, goats, ships… we can walk aside to discover the traditional healers selling medicinal herbs, talismans..., while on the other side, are the market gardeners with their vegetables, or seafood sellers, dry fish or smoked fish ….
This kind of trading is a meeting place for villagers from all over the area to exchange their products or livestock.
In these markets, called "Louma" in local jargon, it is not uncommon to witness the barter system between herders.
Unforgettable smells, colors, and atmospheres.
Guided tour inside the market, then continue to Joal, the tip of the southwest.
Joal was a former 16th-century Portuguese trading post, and the birthplace of the poet President Léopold Senghor, and it marks the access gates to the Saloum Delta.
By a wooden bridge, we can access Fadiouth island, a small village settled on a pile of shells.
The traditional village of Fadiouth is better known as the Shellfish Island, because instead of sand, we will travel on a shell pile.
On foot, we will discover this stronghold of total tolerance where all religious beliefs and appearances come together: Muslims, Christians, and Animists
By another bridge, we will be at the only mixed cemeteries, and from there we will take a boat for the return to the continent.
Last stop for our postcard of the day, in front of the millet granaries on stilts in the heart of the mangroves
On the way back, a break at Fadial village, in front of the largest baobab tree of West Africa. Emblem of Senegal, this thousand-year-old tree remains symbolic because it served as an altar and place of offering for the peoples of the sacred wood
Continuation of the hotel.
