Excursions around OUAGA and short trips

Excursions half a day :

MANEGA museum : departure for MANEGA and it's "bendrologie" museum, or tom-tom language, in the bush. You will find an ethnological real treasure collecting sacred masks, fetishes, gravestones, musical instruments than reconstruction of social life scenes. the museum's conception, which is original, offer you the possibility to discover, normal size, different types of housings from Burkina. That is an ideal place for you to be initiate into the burkinabe's rituals.

During : about 4h30                               

Rates : base 2 : 35 € / people and base 4 : 19 € / people.                             

 

LAONGO sculptures : Just near OUAGA (25 km), in the bush, you will discover a place where international artists (Africa, Europe, Asia) have cut granite rocs to give the life to modern astonishment sculptures. Real masterpieces collected in this outside strange museum...

During : about 4h00                                                        

Rates : base 2 : 20 € / people and base 4 : 12 € / people.

Sacred  BAZOULE crocodiles: 30 km from OUAGA, you will see a big "pond" were are living in peace about one hundred crocodiles to whom are offer chickens. What a funny way the "guardian" use to cal them out of the water ! That animal is sacred, because the legend tee that when an old crocodile dead or is killed, it's the death omen of an old man of BAZOULE... Meeting with tradition and emotions.

During : about 4h00                       

Rates : base 2 : 20 € / people and base 4 : 12 € / people.

Town trip : discover OUAGADOUGOU : its musical museum, its craftsmen's village, its craftsmen's center where you will have access to the different workshops in order to discover the bronzes and batik (tinctures) manufacturing secrets...Be careful to be loved at first sight !

During : about 4h00

Rates : base 2 : 12 € / people and base 4 : 7,5 € / people.

Excursions of one day :

Summary

TIEBELE in Gourounsi's country : departure in the morning towards the south for Tiebele, in heart of Gourounsi's country, where you will discover a local architecture absolutely magnificent. Veritable fortified farms where the huts overlap with some external stairs conducting to terraces, the all is decorated with paints made by women. Visit of the Binger's house at Tiakane. Lunch at PO.

Rates : base 2 : 86 € / people and base 4 : 55 € / people.

 

The Ranch of NAZINGA : departure early towards to visit a reserve of 940 km2, unless 200 km from Ouaga. You would see there many mammals such as ...Lunch at the ranch encampment and return to Ouaga in the end of the afternoon.

Rates : base 2 : 109 € / people and base 4 : 69 € / people. 

                                        

LAONGO / BAZOULE : as you want, you should go to see sacred crocodiles in the morning, for example, and Laongo's sculptures in the afternoon. Lunch is in your charge in Ouaga.

Rates : base 2 : 39 € / people and base 4 : 21€ / people.

MANEGA / KAYA : after the visit of the atypical museum of Manega, you will join KONGOUSSI for the lunch, then you will go to KAYA. Visit of the city : the market and the workshops of leather's craftsmen, very famous in Burkina. A journey which will be for you the opportunity for a good initiation into Mossi's culture (the largest ethnic group in Burkina).

Rates : base 2 : 76 € / people and base 4 : 49 € / people.

Excursions in two days :

Summary

Mossi plateau : departure for MANEGA and its museum of "bendrologie". Lunch in a restaurant in KONGOUSSI, near the Bam's lake. Then you will join KAYA, crossing landscapes of hills ; stopover at the lake of Dem for a stroll in dugout canoe. Arrival in the end of afternoon at Kaziende's hotel.

Visit of the gold's mine of Mane : when the rural work permit it, men, women and children search some meagre nugget of gold in holes as deep as 50 m ! The African version of "the rush towards gold"... You should also see the blacksmith’s work : craftsmen, tradition's hollers, the raining masters, the protectors of the villager community. After noon, visit of the market and leather craftsmen, then return to Ouaga that we shall reach in the end of the afternoon, after a stopover to admire LAONGO's sculptures.

Rates : base 2 : 190 € / people and base 4 : 151 € / people.

Rates in full board, base double room (without drinks and visas). Vehicle, fuel, guides, translator and driver included.

The Ranch of NAZINGA: two days to benefit fully of this reserve, not far from Ouaga, grooved by 600 km of tracks.

Our driver, guided by a tracker of the reserve, will attempt to make you benefit from this vision safari. You will go to in search of antelope, gazelles, monkeys and of course elephants... With a little luck, you will see also buffaloes. Besides the animals species, the Nazinga ranch also has interesting vegetation : baobab, mahogany and gigantic silk-cotton trees under which the animals rest.

You will be accommodated and will eat in the ranch encampment. You will come back in Ouaga after the last lunch and making a stopover in Gourounsi country to admire huts attractively decorated.

Rates : base 2 : 183 € / people and base 4 : 119 € / people.

Rates without plane in full board, base double room (without drinks and visas and photos taxes in the Ranch). Vehicle, fuel, guides, translator and driver included.

Short tours (3 and 4 days) :

Summary

Unforgettable Sahel 3 days :

It’s a monotonous region, even sinister. Covered by grasses, a few dries tree witness the ever-progressive attack of desert. With these conditions, why show an interest in this region? To permit you to meet various tribes and ethnic groups who have in interaction. The TUAREGS, often people of extreme beauty, draped in luminous indigo gandouras, the pirates and princes of the desert have forced them into a sedentary life. The BELLAHS, farmers, who have remained loyal to these lords of the desert. The PEULHS, nomads of the sun, with their herds in permanent search of pasture. The SONGHAIS, with their beautiful made-mud villages…

You will see them in the markets ; a place to exchange goods, information, and gossip. A true mixture of colors and smells is guaranteed.

DAY 1 : departure early morning from Ouagadougou. After lunch, you will join GOROM GOROM to visit this nice city and its famous Tuesday’s market. At the end of the afternoon you will go to MARKOYE to reach ZIGUIBERY’s encampment, for the diner and the night.

DAY 2 : following unmarked trails (the guide knows his way), we will cross through small villages seemingly “at the end of the world”. We will arrive in OURSI, where sand dunes and a pond are covered by thousands of birds, which share this magnificent landscape and give witness to the delicate ecological equilibrium. We will come back in GOROM GOROM where you will spend the night in the encampment or in bivouac.

DAY 3 : after the visit of the village of BANI and its famous 7 mosquees, return to OUAGADOUGOU. Lunch in KAYA, visit to the craftsmen, then arrival at the end of the afternoon in Ouaga.

Rates : base 2 : 399 € / people and base 4 : 257 € / people.

Rate full board (without drinks and visa) base double room. Vehicle 4x4 with AC, driver-guide, gasoline, translater, taxes and visits included.

                                                                                                            Photo Steven WEINBERG

Unforgettable Sahel 4 days :

DAY 1 : departure early morning from Ouagadougou. After lunch, you will join GOROM GOROM to visit this nice city and its famous Tuesday’s market. At the end of the afternoon you will go to MARKOYE to reach ZIGUIBERY’s encampment, for the diner and the night.

DAY 2 : following unmarked trails (the guide knows his way), we will cross through small villages seemingly “at the end of the world”. We will arrive in OURSI, where sand dunes and a pond are covered by thousands of birds, which share this magnificent landscape and give witness to the delicate ecological equilibrium. You will go in the north to dinner and spend the night in a nice tuareg encampment, in GANDEFABOU.

DAY 3 : on unmarked trails again, you will join DEOU, then ARIBINDA, where you could see ancestral pictures in the rocks. After a picnic, you will join DORI to spend the night in Oasis hotel, or similar.

DAY 4 : after the visit of the village of BANI and its famous 7 mosquees, return to OUAGADOUGOU. Lunch in KAYA, visit to the craftsmen, then arrival at the end of the afternoon in Ouaga.

Rates : base 2 : 475 € / people et base 4 : 311 € / people.

Rate full board (without drinks and visa) base double room. Vehicle 4x4 with AC, driver-guide, gasoline, translater, taxes and visits included.

Wildelife discovery 4 days : this easy tour and relatively comfortable is done in 4x4 for 14 December to 15 May. All nights take place in comfortable encampment, ventilated or air-conditioned. If you search the change of scene, the great spaces and wild life, this tour will reply to your attempt by the variety and the abundance of the fauna and the landscapes.

DAY 1 : departure of Ouagadougou towards the East, lunch towards FADA (or KOUPELA), capital of the province of Gourma and the last big city before the frontier of Niger. Diner and night at the encampment-hotel of PORGA, just after the border of Benin.

DAY 2 : departure early morning to join the PENDJARI park. We shall make our first outing in the reserve in search of bubales, hyppotragues, cobs, phacocheres, elephants and lions. Diner and night at the hotel of Pendjari ( swimming pool and air-conditioned rooms).

DAY 3 : after a dive and a good breakfast, we shall go to directly to the Bali' s pound. Here, you will be wondered by all of kinds of fantastic ballet of animals. According to the season, you will join PORGA, either by the valley of Pendjari, or we shall make a detour by the Tanougou' s water-fall then TANGUIETA. Night at the hotel of Kompienga (Burkina Faso).

DAY 4 : we shall take again the road of OUAGA. We shall visit LAONGO, where you will admire the sculptures on blocs of granite, in the open air. Arrival in the end of the afternoon in Ouagadougou.

Rates : base 2 : 766 € / people and base 4 : 489 € / people.

Rate full board (without drinks and visa) base double room. Vehicle 4x4 with AC, driver-guide, gasoline, translater, taxes and visits included.

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