Black and White Safari

Professional people, cool tour and the most amazing tour guide Saffie. I fully recommend this company for anyone visiting Gambia. Saffie was extremely professional, on time and most importantly great company. Sophia also made each each step in the way feel seamless and helped my experience. Samba, Bax and Diouf all did there part as well. Armstrong the owner who arranged our trip was also amazing and extremely professional. The communication was very very good. Thank you so much.

All amazing we had Muhammed as tour guide. We only have great words about him. They were in time super professionals all really good information was given in the entire trip. We did the 4 wheel trip with boat trip in the mangroves. Super recommended.

Really nice tours! We chose the 4-wheel drive, which gives you a great overview of Gambia. And the James Island tour, about the history of slavery, is very interesting. It's nice to drive around and see so many things. Drinks are included, and the guides are excellent; they're very friendly and knowledgeable.

We did a day Safari with Black & White and it was excellent. Armstrong, the owner came to see us in our hotel the day before to answer questions and tell us the form (what to expect, what to wear etc). On the day, Muhammad arrived promptly and proceeded to guide us through the ferry, border control (the Safari is in Senegal) and every aspect of the day. Muhammad was a remarkable young man, fun, bright, competent, caring and kind. He looked after us beautifully, glided through every situation, was concerned for us and our welfare and utterly determined to ensure our every need was met and that we had the best time. I can’t recommend B&W more highly. Coming from a 50 something who has visited 60+ countries and had experiences all over the world, this is a fantastic day out, run and managed by charming, competent people.

We paid approximately $125 per person for the all day tour "called Four Wheel Drive Adventure" on their website. The tour price covered all activities except food and gratuities / gifts. It turned out there were only 2 of us booked on the tour, so we had a private tour in a 4-wheel drive SUV and 2 guides (Armstrong and Yaya). They communicated very well over WhatsApp prior to our day to answer any questions and then were waiting for us right on time. We walked outside the port entrance and met them there and started our day - which covered SO MANY unique and interesting places all over The Gambia from crocodiles, to markets, to monuments, fishing villages, and local schools - this was a GREAT tour to see how folks really live in this country. One of the guides escorted us everywhere and explained things and also answered any questions we had. While many places we visited were not modern and clean like some tourists may be used to, we always felt safe and were not bothered by anyone. Definitely there was a decent amount of walking in warm temperatures and you are going to see some people living a hard life, so please be a courteous traveler and don't take pictures of such things (as you would not want others to do to you). I should advise tour participants about the stop at the school, which was so inspiring and we saw so many cute children....but you should know the guides and school teachers do ask for monetary donations for the school at this stop....which could be awkward if you only have a small number of participants and if some did not plan on a donation and did not bring a lot of currency. We brought a giant $30 bag of candy (we visited on Halloween) and they really did not pay attention to it at all. We don't regret that part of the tour and wouldn't want to miss it as it was informative and educational and very sweet interacting with them.....but if you aren't expecting a monetary donation request and didn't plan for it, it could be really awkward. Overall, we loved the tour as we got a GREAT sense of The Gambia that was more authentic than most packaged tourist tours, has great variety (museums, markets, monuments, schools, animals, etc.) and we saw so many memorable things (the fishing village is an incredible site and should not be missed!), and the guides were super friendly and educational. Definitely recommend this company and this particular tour.