Dynamic Tours to Timbuktu and Beyond!
Speciality Tours
We are proud to say that at Maliba Tours we have a great network of individuals and organizations allowing us to accommodate any individual’s or group’s particular interest in Mali, Sénégal, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Bénin, and Togo. Through our local contacts and local knowledge we are able to design and lead special interest tours that are unique in their essence and special at their core. Here are some of the extraordinary tours and travel study opportunities that we offer. This is just a sample of what we offer. Feel free to contact us with your specific interests and let us help you put thoughts and desires into action by designing a great experiential learning tour based on your particular interest. Note: These programs can also take place in countries such as Sénégal, Gambia, Ghana, Bénin, and Togo. Also remember that Sénégal, The Gambia, and Ghana have some of the most popular bird-watching destinations and slave routes.
World Heritage Tours
Djenne Mosque - UNESCO World Heritage Site, S. Ngozi
On this tour you will get the chance to enjoy all the great cultural landscapes and events you heard of and dreamed of seeing. Places such as Timbuktu, Dogon Country, and The Great Mosque of Djénné will be presented to you with all their mystic and splendor. UNESCO has declared them World-Heritage for a reason and you get the chance to experience them first-hand. This tour can be taken in Mali, Sénégal, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Togo, and Bénin separately or as a multi-country tour combining any two or three countries.
Slave Route Tours
Intricate Handmade Wooden Door in Dogon Country
Embark on an enlightening tour of the West African coast where you can witness first-hand the slave routes through forts, castles, slave dungeons, slave markets, museums full of facts, and century-old accounts of village elders of Ghana, Benin, Togo, Sénégal, and the Gambia. Whether it is to make the pilgrimage to the motherland and pay respect to your ancestors, or it is to bear witness to the most humbling yet enlightening experiences, our slave routes tours will surely give you an insight and experience that will be forever memorable. This is an amazing spiritual journey for the student, the scholar, the religious, or the individual seeking to get an understanding of him or herself within the African context. This is history like you have never seen or heard before. Below are the countries we visit tours dates are open and you have the option to tour in one country (7 to 14 days) or do a multi-country tour (10-21 days)
West African Dance & Drumming
Traditional Dogon Dance Performance
Our Dance and Drumming residencies begin in Bamako, a crossroad where arts from virtually all ethnic groups of Mali meet. Learn dance steps and drumming rythms such as (dansa, djondon woloso don, Dydadi, and many more) from our own master artist “Cobra” who will then introduce you to other master artists of the National Ballet, the National Institute for the Arts, the Balla Fassèkè Multimedia Conservatory, and the Carrefour des Jeunes.
Bird-Watching Tours
Bamako-Kayes-Mandé-Mopti-Djénnée-Dogon CountryMali has excellent savannah and wetland habitats, which are home to more 600 bird species, including six endangered. However, Mali remains an underrated destination for bird watchers mainly due to the fact that accessibility to birding sites can be challenging which only adds to the fun of the adventure, if you ask us. Egyptian plovers, hammer kops, jacanas (lily trotters), pied kingfishers, cattle egrets and majestic crowned cranes can be seen year-round in the Niger Inland Delta. Most people like to visit in the month of February when species such as greenshanks, black-winged stilts, marbled teal and ferruginous ducks are out in their full glory.
