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5-hour Heritage Tour To Gorée Island From Dakar
  • Tour Category

    Private Tour

  • Tour Types

    Culture, History, Museum

  • Duration

    5 Hours

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English, Spanish

Description

Sign up for a quick tour to Gorée Island from Dakar on a boat and get an insight into its Black slave history and culture. Visit its famous Door of No Return along with other chapels, fortresses and palaces before ending the tour.

Highlights
  • Visit the 'Door of No Return' Museum
  • Stroll through the colourful streets of Gorée 
  • Take a look at the French fortress 
  • Sightsee the Portuguese chapel
  • Head to French governor's palace  
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    • Depart in a boat from Dakar to explore, Gorée island, where, in the early 15th century, millions of Black people were enslaved and shipped for the Americas. Gorée island was the slave's transit base in West Africa. 
    • Visit the slave houses and their famous "DOOR OF NO RETURN". On Gorée, you will learn how people were enslaved, abused, downgraded for centuries.
    • Walk through Gorée's narrow and colourful streets to see the 1852 French fortress, the 1481 Portuguese chapel, the former French governor's palace and so on!
    • Return to Dakar. Tour ends here.
What's Included
  • Bilingual speaking Senegal guide

  • Air-conditioned vehicle 

  • Slaves fee 

  • Ferry fee

  • All applicable taxes

  • Lunch on Gorée island 

What's Excluded
  • Beverages

Meeting Point

Dakar, Senegal

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
The group size and price
1 To 4USD 300 Per Group

This is a private tour

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USD 300 / group