2-Day Fathala Game Park Safari with Shippo Island and Saloum Delta

Meet and greet your tour guide and get picked up from your hotel.

Drive to Banjul and take the ferry across the Gambian River to the bustling north bank at Barra.

Pass through a number of villages typical of Gambia before arriving at Fathala Game Park, which is populated by many species of indigenous wildlife:

• Roan and Kob Antelope

• Buffalo

• Defassa Waterbuck with its distinctive white rump patch

• Patas monkeys

• Guinea baboon, the smallest baboon species

• Warthog

• African Forest Buffalo with horns that curve backwards and upwards

• Side-striped Jackal with faint white stripes running from elbow to hip on both sides of its body

• Western Giant Eland, the world's largest antelope, introduced from Nkolkoba

Drive to Tobakuta, a town in the Saloum Delta.

Enjoy your lunch and relax for a while.

Board the boat for a sunset crossing to Shippo Island, where you will visit the village of Shippo.

Return to Tobakuta for dinner around the campfire and indulge in stargazing.

Have a full and hearty breakfast.

Explore the village of Tobakuta and stroll through its varied market.

Go on safari towards Misra village and its landmark cotton tree, the biggest in the Senegambia region.

Drive through the bush to the border and back to Barra for the ferry.

Return to your hotel.