Stay : (fmagweb)6695:titre
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7 days
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Detail of the stay : (fmagweb)6695:titre - 7 days
Day 1: Visit to Niamey
Steps: Niamey
In the morning, go to the national museum for a complete overview of Niger. Excellent ability to understand Nigerian culture and society: representations of different ethnic groups through traditional costumes, musical instruments, crafts.... This museum is at the same time a place of safeguarding, a craft workshop and a place of sale. Thus, you will meet jewellery craftsmen, shoemakers, weavers in full labour, you will see shops and high quality batiks. The commercial aspect is also a kind of heritage preservation, because it keeps Nigerian art alive, and you will see the younger generations rediscovering their culture. In this cultural site, several pavilions display major themes such as paleontology, a field that arouses curiosity, the exploitation of uranium, which is still in the news. In the afternoon, stroll through the small market, which is nothing small, between the displays of peppers, tomatoes, fruits and many other culinary surprises. Feel free to ask for the name of anything you don't know, without the guarantee of having the answer in French, experience the exoticism! Ali Baba's real cave, the large market offers a quantity and variety of remarkable items; there are modern and traditional clothes, sandals and shoes imitating "great brand", fabrics from all over the world, loincloths, basins... This labyrinth is full of surprises at every turn! And in the evening, the must is an aperitif on the terrace of the Grand Hotel for a sunset on the river and the city below.
Day 2: The giraffes of Kouré
Steps: Koure
Day 3: W National Park
Ideal from December to April, it is only 2 hours drive south of the capital. After traveling with a forest guard in the savannah on the lookout for buffalo, elephants or birds, we can recover and spend the night in a tent tourist camp in the middle of the park and stand up to the aurora to surprise again the fauves or antelopes on the edge of the mares.
Day 4: W (bis) National Park
Steps: Niamey, Parc National Du W
Continue your visit in the W National Park. Return to Niamey.
Day 5: New visit to Niamey
Steps: Niamey
Visit of the market to flowers at the edge of the river, meeting with the tanners (even if it releases a strong "fragrance", their work is interesting). Discovery of the craft village of Wadata: work place of all kinds of craftsmen of leather, fabric, furniture, potters, weavers and large boutique of presentation and sale of objects. The object or furniture of its choice can also be ordered. Also reserve one afternoon walking in the rice fields upstream or downstream of Niamey where families are met in field or at harvest.
Day 6: Rio Bravo
Steps: Niamey
Take the road to Tillabéri. 15 km from Niamey is the place called Rio Bravo, on the banks of the river, a garden under the mango trees, with the possibility of barbecues, camel rides or canoeing. To spend the night there, there is the Kanazi relay which offers rooms, or under the stars or camping (bring a tent) on a fenced area along the river for a relaxing stay with your feet in the water.
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