This blog is a free resource filled with information that we have gathered from living and traveling in West Africa. We’d love to have you on one of our trips but from one traveler to another, we are just happy to see people visiting the region.
The blog is also a reflection of our travel philosophy. It’s possible to have quite the adventure in West Africa, but we are a bit tired of reading travelogues that make it seem like walking down the street in your average West African city is a death defying experience. We’d like to think that the advice provided in these pages will help you discover West Africa on its own terms, with an eye to the simple things that make this such a great place to visit.
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A UNESCO World Heritage site and Dakar's number one attraction in terms of visitor numbers, Gorée is deservedly at the top of many "things to do" lists, even if aspects of its history and role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade have been disputed. Regardless of how the...
This is a guest post from client (now friend) and author Derek Pugh Suddenly, out of left field, came the call to join Scoot West Africa on a Carnival trip from Senegal to Guinea Bissau. “There’s a scooter trip to West Afr…” started my mate on the phone one day. “I’ll...
It’s super simple. Apply online for the e-visa. The biggest thing we found is to ensure your bank account has sufficient funds to sustain you for your trip. They ask for six months of bank statements. If your account is healthy, you’ll be fine. You get issued the...
We have been running trips in Senegal since 2017. We would ride, bus or fly over from Mali, run a trip, and then return to the Sleeping Camel in Bamako. In 2023, as the situation in Mali continued to deteriorate, we rented a house in La Somone, a small beachside town...
Every so often someone writes in asking if we can take them to see “real tribes” and go see a ceremony or something not touristy. That phrase “real tribes” is a trope I’ve come to dislike intensely. It carries too much old baggage and it has never been the kind of...