Mali and Burkina Faso

The largest country in West Africa, and home to the famous Timbuktu, Mali’s landlocked borders stretch from the Niger and Senegal rivers in the south, deep into the Sahara to the north.

Rapidly developing, particularly in the main cities, travellers will find here the highlight of West Africa; a place that resonates in history and today offers fine cuisine on offer, intriguing and colourful markets, vast desert scapes and ancient tombs.

The lucrative trade routes of the Sahara once made the region among the world’s richest, and the Niger, one of the grand old rivers of Africa, is still the lifeblood of the country; to journey along the Niger River route (on a slow boat to Timbuktu) is one of the continent’s great adventures.

Group Tours and Tailor-made trips to Mali & Burkina Faso

With its giant mud-built mosques, Dogon villages carved into cliff-sides and massive camel caravans traversing the desert, Mali makes for a stunningly surreal destination.

And Burkina Faso, or 'the land of honourable men' as it literally translates, certainly captures the imagination - how many of your friends even know its exists?
But with its relaxed pace of life, friendly people and wealth of interesting sights it wins the hearts of travellers again and again

From the deserts and unrivalled Gorom-Gorom market in the north, to the green country­side and strange rock formations of the country’s southwest, Burkina spans a rich variety of landscapes. The country, too, is home to a fascinating cultural mix, with the Burkinabé (people from Burkina Faso) almost as diverse as the terrain.

This may be one of the world’s poorest countries, but it’s also one of the most stable in the region and runs with an efficiency that’s the envy of many of its neighbours.