Birdwatching Tours with Pa Ousman
Guided birdwatching tours in The Gambia and Senegal
Birdwatching Tours with Pa Ousman Jallow
The Gambia and Senegal in West Africa have twice as many bird species as Northern Europe, and many of these are very exotic! And all this in a country only half the size of Wales which is easily reached by mainstream holiday companies like TUI, so prices are competitive. Birding in The Gambia is easy. Not only do most of us speak English, but we have The Gambia Bird Watchers Association (BWA) to train our bird guides to a high standard.
I am the Vice-President of the BWA. My name is Pa Ousman Jallow and I am a very experienced bird guide. You can hire me with transport for personal or small-group birding and photographic tours in Gambia and/or Senegal for half days, whole days, complete weeks and everything in-between. I can also recommend suitable accommodation as required.
Please send me an email or WhatsApp message (or phone me for free on WhatsApp) and let me know your plans and dates. I can then quote you firm prices.
Gambia is a very easy-going, friendly English-speaking destination with good hotels, restaurants, transport, and money exchange facilities – and very little crime. I think you will love our country, which is poor but full of smiling faces !
Birdwatching Tours with Pa Ousman Jallow
The Gambia and Senegal in West Africa have twice as many bird species as Northern Europe, and many of these are very exotic! And all this in a country only half the size of Wales which is easily reached by mainstream holiday companies like TUI, so prices are competitive. Birding in The Gambia is easy. Not only do most of us speak English, but we have The Gambia Bird Watchers Association (BWA) to train our bird guides to a high standard.
I am the Vice-President of the BWA. My name is Pa Ousman Jallow and I am a very experienced bird guide. You can hire me with transport for personal or small-group birding and photographic tours in Gambia and/or Senegal for half days, whole days, complete weeks and everything in-between. I can also recommend suitable accommodation as required.
Please send me an email or WhatsApp message (or phone me for free on WhatsApp) and let me know your plans and dates. I can then quote you firm prices.
Gambia is a very easy-going, friendly English-speaking destination with good hotels, restaurants, transport, and money exchange facilities – and very little crime. I think you will love our country, which is poor but full of smiling faces !
15-day individual tour of The Gambia and Senegal
A colourful birding trip from mangroves to savannah. Discover The Gambia at its most beautiful.
On the Gambia river at Georgetown looking for hippopotamus
This programme is flexible and depends on transportation, local conditions, availability of camps/hotels, etc. and the most recent sightings.
Please indicate in advance what you want us to focus on (i.e. birdspotting, photography, misc. nature, culture) so we can take this into account.
You will travel together with a certified English-speaking bird guide, who is also trained to guide photographers.
At Kotu Bridge
Tendaba Camp
Baobolong Camp hotel in Georgetown
Special Tours
One week‘s birding in Senegambia
Day 1
Pick up at 7.00 from your hotel reception, travel to Tendaba Camp for one night.
Day 2
After breakfast at Tendaba Camp, we drive to Georgetown for a night. Lots of birding along the way.
Day 3
After breakfast at Georgetown we will drive to Bassa to a border crossing to Walligara town in Senegal ....
3 days birding in Senegal
Day 1
After breakfast we will drive to Banjul and cross with the ferry to the north bank of the River Gambia to the border. We will drive to Kaolack to visit the roosting area of the African Swallow Tail Kite and Lesser Kestrel on an island called Khusmarr. Then to the hotel in Kaolack for our night stop.
Day 2
After breakfast we will drive down to Toubakouta in the Saloum Delta National Park ....
One day in Senegal
One day tour to Senegal and back to your hotel. Pick up at the reception by 6:00. We travel to Banjul and take the ferry crossing to Barra, then 15 minutes drive to the border. After another ten minutes we will be at the entrance of Fathala Game Park, where we will do a round tour in the countryside. Lunch break in the park, returning to your hotel around 6.30
Our Tour with Pa - January 2024
by Dave & Bob Culverhouse
Two of us did a week’s birding in The Gambia. To help us get around we had a highly recommended bird guide, Pa Jallow, for the whole week.
Since we are both over 70 years old, Pa adapted his tours to what we could easily manage. He took us to several different habitats – open grasslands, forests, wetlands, sandy shorelines and dunes.
One particular favourite was Kotu Bridge & Creek, where the birdwatching was sensational. Pa took us ‘up-the-creek’ in an old punt, where Giant, Pygmy & Pied Kingfishers were all active at point-blank range, plus Umbrella Birds, Spur-winged Lapwing, Western Reef-Heron, Cormorants and so on.
The Gambia has about twice as many bird species as the UK, and that in such a tiny country! There are so many variations of almost everything, including Kingfishers (8 species), Swifts (5), Swallows & Martins (17), Hornbills (7), even Nightjars (8)!!!
It was normal to look up and see 20+ Hooded Vultures, plus many Black Kites. At one stop, a farmer was hand-digging his plot – surrounded by about 15 vultures, plus a few cattle egrets, all within a few metres. An unforgettable sight!
If you book Pa, he will happily take you further afield to ever more exotic sites (also in Senegal) to find your particular target birds. He’ll also provide you with all the practical information and advice you might need.
We had a great trip, so thank you Pa!
Individual Tours
£40/per person
half day trip
Brufut Wood
Includes:
Guide fee
Transport
Entrance tickets to parks
Water during the tour
£60/per person
full day trip
Abuko Nature Reserve and Lamin
Includes:
Guide fee
Transport
Entrance tickets to parks
Water during the tour
£60/per person
full day trip
Farasutu Forest
Includes:
Transport
Guide fee
Entrance tickets to parks
Water during the tour
£40/per person
half day trip
Tanji Reserve and river
Includes:
Guide fee
Transport
Entrance tickets to parks
Water during the tour
£60/per person
full day of birding in Kotu
Kotu Creek
Includes:
Transport
Boat trip
Guide fee
Water during the tour
£40/per person
half day trip
Boat trip on the Kotu Creek
Includes:
Transport
Boat trip
Guide fee
Water during the tour
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Pa Ousman Jallow
Brikama Town
West Coast Region
The Gambia
West Africa