Things to see and do Samba Dia

An agro-ecological farm-school that deserves a visit and has initiated many collaborative projects in the region. You can meet the young people in training, visit the coconut tree nurseries and other plantations, while discovering the ingenious methodology aimed at making the students independent and eco-responsible. You can also eat delicious meals and spend the night there. Other activities are offered to discover the surroundings.

Here is one of the largest baobabs in Senegal, an impressive specimen with a circumference of 33 m and about 850 years old, in a forest that is home to multi-centenary baobabs. Its trunk is very wide, made up of bulges that form folds and folds. Vendors of all kinds are waiting for the tourists, but in order not to put pressure on them, they decided to organize themselves. From now on, each in turn invites visitors to enter the tree to discover a colony of bats and give very interesting information about the site.

Situated at about 13 m above sea level, this protected forest, between Samba Dia and Fimela, is mainly a rôneraie, but is home to about 20 other species, such as the acacia and the African birch. For the curious, you may notice an almost unique phenomenon: a genetic degeneration of the rôneraie, whose trunk splits into three or four parts. These are called finger-knifed rôniers. Some scientists have looked into the matter (by... raising their heads), but it seems that the exact origin of the phenomenon remains a mystery for the moment.