The Fathala Wildlife Reserve is located 12 kilometres north of the Gambia-Senegal border in Senegal. You will be picked up early in the morning from your hotel and head to Banjul, the capital city where you'll board the ferry to Barra and experience the hustle and bustle with the local people. After approximately one hour cruising on the River Gambia, you reach Barra to continue driving through numerous villages before reaching Amdalaye/Karang, the Gambia-Senegal border for passport formalities.

From there you enter Senegal to drive for approximately 30 minutes to reach the Fathala Park. At Fathala, a 4x4 ex-army truck will be waiting for you to start a 2-hour safari within the park. In the reserve, you can enjoy the natural environment of the bush and get the chance to spot animals as zebras, rhinoceros, giraffes, monkey and many more. After that you can enjoy a nice pizza lunch of your choice and a drink before departing back to the border to catch the ferry to Banjul.

We were collected from the hotel at 7 am, breakfast wasn’t served until 7 which TUI would have known. It took 5 hours to reach the safari park where we then started the 2 hour safari. We did see most of the animals in the park and the tour itself was ok. We were then finally given some food - pizza!! We are in The Gambia - why not something slightly more authentic. It then took a further 3 hours to get back to our hotel. We came away from the very long trip feeling like we had wasted a day.

The hotel was lovely the room great food nice. Staff friendly. Trip well worth it especially the safari. AirPort terrible what a shambles people pushing shoving shouting. No organisation at all utter chaos. Why you have to put cases through a scanner before exiting airport is beyond me no one checked them just seemed to be a pointless exercise to cause mayhem. people pushing, pushing in, shouting abuse at people. Just to get cases on and off not a good first impression of Gambia

Guide was very knowledgeable and helpful

Je remercie énormément le guide. Gérer un groupe de 12 personnes avec le ferry, la douane, les documents, les visas, les mandiants. Servir le repas. Sincèrement Merci au guide Gambia Tour. Concernant la visite c'est une expérience, le ferry, la douane la visite est magnifique. Voir les Girafes, Zebra, Rhinocéros, ?? Gazelles, ?? buffles. Je regrette de ne pas avoir compris que les lions étaient accessible lors de notre visite. Mais cela vaut le coup de payer.

The trip was a good experience getting out and enjoying the real Gambia & Senegal life, everything went smoothly from hotel to ferry and transferring to the reserve, except getting on a nice new big jeep for safari (19 of us), then been taken off (why??) for smaller jeeps, after 1hour of no communication, waiting around, we were put back on the big tatty jeep, what a waste of an hour apart from one hour, once on safari it was a brilliant experience highly recommend it.

The guide was rude and more interested in meeting up with his friends then looking after the group he had, he shouted at some of us for not paying attention when he was talking about the politics of the country He left us waiting at the park with no explanation for an hour and a half and then said the truck was broken down we eventually went and was taken on and off 3 different trucks, we did see a few animals but not up close and it felt a lot like a ride around a zoo, very disappointing

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Vigtig information

Remember to bring:

It is recommended to bring water, wear sunglasses, sunscreen, a hat, and comfortable shoes
You will need to present a valid passport
Yellow fever vaccine proof is a must

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I prisen indgår

Entrépriser
Frokost
Guidet rundvisning
Transport i bus med aircondition
Afhentning og aflevering på hotel

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Sted

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Pick-up available from selected hotels in Serrekunda. You'll meet the driver outside the reception area at the scheduled time. The first pick-up will be from Coco Ocean Hotel at 6.25 am followed by the next stops every 5/10 minutes: Holiday Beach Club 6.35 am, Senegambia Beach Hotel 6.35 am, Bamboo Garden Resort 6.45 am, African Princess Beach Hotel 6.50 am, Tamala Beach Resort 6.50 am, Sunset Beach Hotel 7.00 am, Bakotu Hotel 7.00 am, Kombo Beach Resort 7.00 am, Ngala Lodge 7.10 am, Ocean Bay Hotel & Spa 7.15 am, Sunbeach Hotel & Resort 7.15 am.

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Sarah
18. februar 2026
1.8
Det Forenede Kongerige
We were collected from the hotel at 7 am, breakfast wasn’t served until 7 which TUI would have known. It took 5 hours to reach the safari park where we then started the 2 hour safari. We did see most of the animals in the park and the tour itself was ok. We were then finally given some food - pizza!! We are in The Gambia - why not something slightly more authentic. It then took a further 3 hours to get back to our hotel. We came away from the very long trip feeling like we had wasted a day.
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Suzanne
Rejste som et par
16. januar 2026
5
Det Forenede Kongerige
The hotel was lovely the room great food nice. Staff friendly. Trip well worth it especially the safari. AirPort terrible what a shambles people pushing shoving shouting. No organisation at all utter chaos. Why you have to put cases through a scanner before exiting airport is beyond me no one checked them just seemed to be a pointless exercise to cause mayhem. people pushing, pushing in, shouting abuse at people. Just to get cases on and off not a good first impression of Gambia
J
Jobro62
Rejste som et par
10. januar 2026
5
Det Forenede Kongerige
Guide was very knowledgeable and helpful
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David_&_Julie.
Rejste som et par
1. januar 2026
4.2
Frankrig
Je remercie énormément le guide. Gérer un groupe de 12 personnes avec le ferry, la douane, les documents, les visas, les mandiants. Servir le repas. Sincèrement Merci au guide Gambia Tour. Concernant la visite c'est une expérience, le ferry, la douane la visite est magnifique. Voir les Girafes, Zebra, Rhinocéros, ?? Gazelles, ?? buffles. Je regrette de ne pas avoir compris que les lions étaient accessible lors de notre visite. Mais cela vaut le coup de payer.
K
Kastur/Dinesh Meghani
Rejste som et par
4. december 2025
3.8
Det Forenede Kongerige
The trip was a good experience getting out and enjoying the real Gambia & Senegal life, everything went smoothly from hotel to ferry and transferring to the reserve, except getting on a nice new big jeep for safari (19 of us), then been taken off (why??) for smaller jeeps, after 1hour of no communication, waiting around, we were put back on the big tatty jeep, what a waste of an hour apart from one hour, once on safari it was a brilliant experience highly recommend it.
K
Katherine
Rejste som et par
4. december 2025
1.4
Det Forenede Kongerige
The guide was rude and more interested in meeting up with his friends then looking after the group he had, he shouted at some of us for not paying attention when he was talking about the politics of the country He left us waiting at the park with no explanation for an hour and a half and then said the truck was broken down we eventually went and was taken on and off 3 different trucks, we did see a few animals but not up close and it felt a lot like a ride around a zoo, very disappointing