What‘s Included

Meeting and Pickup

What To Expect

Reviews

• A pleasant moment

  sandrinel513,

  Nov 1, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  We stayed at Bandia Ranch and visited the reserve in October with family, nice tour with guide. The restaurant is very good, nice staff. A huge thank you to Birame for allowing us this visit.

• What to do during a trip to Senegal!

  floriev2014,

  Feb 21, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Family holidays in Senegal (10 people including 4 children) We visited the reserve thanks to Mamadou who organized a tailor-made tour according to what we wanted to do: Bandia reserve and lions in a cage car; visit a typical village and a school with the children; visit the island of gorée and canoe ride. Mamadou explained to us with all the passion he has for his country ☺️, very involved and do everything to ensure that we are well in our visits! You can contact him on Whatsapp at +221 776149063 The visit to the reserve was really great, we had a guide who explained all the animals and we saw almost all of them! A happiness for adults and children 😃

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Great way to encounter some of Africa's animals

  CabinteelyFlyer,

  Dec 5, 2023

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  This an excellent day excursion from Dakar. It's well organized, the guides really know their animals and they keep you informed. The ride lasts for a couple of hours, there's some shade from the roof cover but arms and legs might need some sunblock. You'll need water. The ride is bumpy but not rough and the seats are comfortable enough. The animal encounters are really excellent, especially for a first time. We saw giraffe, Zebra, hippos, ostriches, antelope and more. Great photo opportunities. There's a decent snack bar at the end near the croc pool but you'll need to keep the monkeys off your snacks! There's a bathroom stop before after.

  

• Senegal October 2023

  nono08000,

  Nov 8, 2023

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  4.00

  we were able to admire the animals in freedom with a friendly guide who can take photos for us when he has a better view than us.

• Not a bad reserve

  ian w,

  Mar 3, 2023

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  4.00

  The reserve at Bandia was quite good more animals than I expected pleased about that because read the reviews and some people were saying they had not seen a lot.The only thing that I will do not do the lions they are over fed and just lay there not feeding ore climbing onto the vichiles as we were told have seen better in a zoo .

  

  

• AFRICAN BEAUTY 🦒🦏🐊🇸🇳

  Mumu D,

  Aug 3, 2022

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Superb walk, we take full eyes, incredible moment against the majestic giraffes and impressive rhinoceros. Not to be missed (despite the budget to be planned: quite onerous) but memorable!!! Nice site.

• Bouncing around Bandia

  Nomadusa1,

  Jun 28, 2022

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  3.00

  Driving there was no picnic. I think the best time to go is from January to June. After June hard to see the animals and it’s rains a lot more. They were suppose to take credit cards, I would take cash just in case. Their card machine didn’t work. Weird cause it worked in the bar-restaurant, but not the ticket counter. That sucked as it cleaned me out. For 5 of us I paid about 115k CFA with car and tip. I paid for their land cruiser to take us around. The roads are sandy and lots of mud. Don’t be stingy. For the small cost of the taking their car, it’s the best choice. Also you must take a guide. I tipped them afterwards. Saw many animals; rhinos, ostriches, zebras, warthogs, monkeys, gazelles, many others I don’t know the name of. Lots of super old baobabs. One with skulls in it. I like the cruise through the park. The weather was cool in June. Rained a bit. Trees didn’t have a lot of leaves so it was easier to see the animals. Hit the gift shop and restaurant. Gift shop was nice, well stocked with cool stuff. The restaurant had a good assortment of items. A bit on the $ side. We shared 2 pizzas between 4 of us. Lots of birds to watch as you eat. It’s a private park that looks like it’s building more infrastructure. The guide spoke some English. All in all a good experience.

• Unforgettable experience

  Cycy241,

  Apr 14, 2022

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Incredible experience , very professional staff, we were accompanied by Pape Tata Ndiaye who is really listening to his customers, and very warm. He masters his work and you can see that he is passionate about what he does! I recommend without hesitation.

  

  

  

  

• A little paradise

  Jean-Patrick S,

  Sep 26, 2021

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  A comfortable lodge surrounded by nature. Does, cobes, monkeys and especially giraffes that come to your doorstep. Absolute calm, a real change of scenery. Ideal to recharge a weekend. Very nice pool. Impeccable Service, excellent Lebanese meal included in half board. To see

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Safe

  Cheyenne C,

  Sep 26, 2021

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  I appreciate the drivers being on time, being diligent and proving safe environment. It was a great experience to be around the animals.