RAIN- FOREST NATURE TRAIL, INCLUSIVE OFFER

10 Days From $1,780

Home base tucked into the edge of the Rain-Forest

Home base tucked into the edge of the Rain-Forest

Chameleon-an interesting visitor to the back garden

Chameleon-an interesting visitor to the back garden

Come and stay at the edge of the western most tip of the Western Peninsula Rain-forest, where the forest spills onto the beach side, an area rich in nature. Explore the upper forest with an accredited National Tourist Board forest guide. This tour includes a two night stay in Tiwai Island, one of the last remaining tracts of the Upper Guinean Congolese Rain-forest and home to a high concentration of primates some of them endangered like the Diana monkey, black and white, the red and olive colobus monkey and wild chimpanzees. With Pygmy hippopotamus and over 135 different bird species including eight types of hornbill. This tour is a nature lover’s delight. See http://jaysbar.net/about/

Description

Price includes:

Meeting and assistance on arrival and departure

Airport to overnight hotel and onward to accommodation transfers

All meals

All boat, canoe trips

All internal travel

Fees, guides and accommodation charges for Tiwai Island visit

English speaking guides

Price excludes:

Airfares

Visa

Departure tax (only payable on non European flights)

Excess baggage charges
Medical and personal insurance inclusive of personal loss, injury, flight delays, lost baggage and repatriation

Drinks (all of which are available to buy at reasonable prices)

Medical requirements

Personal expenditure telephone calls, tips etc

Day 1 You will arrive in the evening, be met at airport personally by one of our team and transferred to hotel for overnight stay.

Day 2 Am you will be met at the hotel and transferred across the river by ferry and on to Tito’s Paradise Eco Beach. The afternoon will be spent walking through the bush with a local bush guide, following an old local slave route to John Obey. In the early evening there will be a boat trip in a paddle boat in the river into the forest, followed by good food and a bonfire.

Day 3 There will be a guided walk into the Gumma valley nature trail with picnic. This is a full day nature trek affording you to chance to see many different species of butterfly and rewarding you with a magnificent view of the western most edge and the beaches of the Peninsula. There will be another early evening river trip up the next river.

Day 4 A visit to the famous Chimpanzee Sanctuary followed by a trek in the Western Peninsula .Rain-forest conservation area.

Day 5 Journey via BO to Tiwai Island.

Day 6 AM and PM guided walks through Tiwai Island. Early evening magical canoe trip to the end of the island and back nature watching.

Day 7 AM and PM Guided nature trails and visit to the research center. A night time guided trek through the rain-forest.

Day 8 Return to Tito’s Paradise Eco Beach

Day 9 05.00 start for a day of guided trekking to Gumma valley Damn home to the white breasted Guinea fowl. Picnic lunch overlooking this magnificent dam.

Day 10 .AM one final nature walk followed by farewell lunch. PM you will be taken back to the airport by one or two of our team.

Key Information

Travel style 1 – 4 people

Start Location Lungi Airport, Sierra Leone

End Location Lungi Airport, Sierra Leone

Accommodation Wooden chalet and local huts.

Period All year round

Difficulty Suitable for most travellers

About the operator

Accreditation Approval of Sierra Leone National Tourist Board

Years in business 4

Bushy trail

Bushy trail


Evening river rides

Evening river rides

Peacefil sunsets at home base

Peaceful sunsets at home base

Beautiful butterflies

Beautiful butterflies