• Arrive in Niamey, pick up at the airport and transfer to a tourist hotel.
• Enjoy dinner at Maki 2000, the best restaurant in Niamey for a newcomer.

• Today after breakfast, start your long trek to the old capital, stopping at Maradi and vital trade towns along the way. 
• See local villages with earthen materials used to construct all aspects of town design and structures of architecture. Pass through the mud mosques, adobe homes, huts with river-reed fronds, dug wells, and observe the pastoral life. The best onions in the world, sought after by Europe and a long haul to get, are grown here, along with peanuts. These are largely the 2 only main crops in Niger. Everything else is imported. 
• Arrive in the evening in Zinder and enjoy dinner.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• After a quick breakfast and coffee, visit the magnificent and unique Sultan's Palace, still active and in use, and see his ministers presiding over affairs and trials in the kingdom of Zinder. See the dungeons where multiple levels of offences used to take place. 
• Reach atop the palace, and get the panoramic views of the city overlooking the minarets and mud houses.
• In the afternoon, pay a visit to the Alternative Radio Station of the city.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• Today you will visit a regional chief and chiefdom in the vicinity of Zinder Kingdom, learn the daily lives and issues of the people, how they build their houses, obtain water and food, and visit the mosques and living rooms of the people of the far landlocked Sahel, whose lives have remained largely unchanged for centuries, and in some ways millennia. This is the oldest remnant of ancient Africa, a great deal simpler and great deal behind modern life, in one of the planet's harshest realms of habitation. You'll find here humanity nevertheless thriving and vibrant. 

Overnight in a local homestay, with ethnic cooking and outdoor toilets and shower.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner  

• Drive safe and slow on the long haul back to Niamey. 
• Check in to your chosen hotel and end of the tour. 

Transfer onward or to the airport for the next day can be arranged.

Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch