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Tour of Grand Bassam
Tour of Grand Bassam
Tour of Grand Bassam
Tour of Grand Bassam
Tour of Grand Bassam

Tour of Grand Bassam

By The Real Experience AS
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$489 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

This tour is the perfect combination of historical sites, local life, and nature. You will start walking for 1 hour around Qartier France and your guide will take you to all the landmarks of this UNESCO site. After that, you can relax on the canoe with a drink and some snacks while you are being taken across the lagoon of Bassam and admiring the mangroves and palm trees.

You will reach the traditional village of Monduke, with its multiple coconut trees and its houses made of local materials like palm tree leaves and African bamboo. Here you will be able to see how the fishermen pull their boats loaded with the catch of the day into the shore while their wives sell the fish to the visitors on the sand. An unforgettable experience.

Row back to the starting point with a stop in the village where the N'Zima people smoke the fish. Taste this delicatessen while sipping on a beer in a Maquis at the end of the tour.

Activity location

  • Musee National des Costumes
    • Boulevard Treich-Laplene
    • Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Lagune live, plein air ideal en famille
    • Grand-Bassam, District du Comoé, Ivory Coast

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Tour of Grand Bassam in Multilingual
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • Opening hours: Sun 8:00 am-3:30 pm
  • English
Price details
AU$489.30 x 1 AdultAU$489.30
Total
Price is AU$489.30

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate transport
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance to Museum
  • What's includedWhat's includedGuide

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Musee National des Costumes
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
The National Museum of Costume is an impressive colonial-styled building that houses a wide array of ancient cultural artefacts and collections from all over the country. remarkable for its collection of vintage photos, the most curious of which must be that of a pith-helmeted French colonial squeezing the breast of a naked N’Zima woman. The scale model villages downstairs examine the habits and customs of Ivory Coast’s indigenous people. The basketry, textiles, masks, ceremonial outfits and indigo goods are also worth a peek. The range of mannequins illustrates the various religious and ethnic traditions of the country: a loin-clothed Baoulé monarch is draped in gold jewellery, an Abouré féticheuse tasked with educating children about sex clutches a wooden penis and broom to deter malevolent spirits, and a Kru chieftain poses in a suit of tree bark and leather.
Marcel Treich-Laplene Monument
  • 20m
By far the most interesting thing to see in Bassam is the 1.1- km2 open-air museum of colonial buildings constructed between the 1870s and the 1930s. Most are dotted around the easily walkable Boulevard Treich-Laplène
La 1ere boutique CFAO installe a BASSAM
  • 5m
It spearheaded trade and industry in the high colonial period.
Grand Bassam
  • 20m
The Governor’s Palace, opposite the Courthouse on Boulevard Treich-Laplène is in good shape – its stucco walls were recently re-lacquered and its lengthy veranda was redecorated with sea shells. The dual staircases weave elegantly towards each other along the façade and meet and curl inwards to form a semi-circle at the main entrance.
Grand Bassam Cultural Heritage House
  • 10m
Continuing east along Boulevard Treich-Laplène, on the corner of Rue Sacre-Coeur, is the Post Office and Customs House, built in 1893 out of prefab materials shipped from France. Composed of a central tower and a green-shuttered ground floor, it has been smartly renovated under the terms of the UNESCO project and is now home to the Maison du Patrimoine Culturel, a cultural centre that arranges history-themed events and has a permanent exhibition of photographs depicting 150 years of important Bassamois people, places, and events.
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  • 1h 15m
  • Admission ticket included
Enjoy a Canoe tour on the lagoon of Grand Bassam. Slide on the water past mangroves and palm trees. Take a 30-minute ride to the village where the N'zima people smoke the fish and then go back (preferably at sunset) to the starting point for another 30 minutes.
Mondoukou
  • 45m
Visit this fishermen village with houses built entirely with palm leaves and African bamboo. Watch the ghanaian fishermen coming to shore and unload the fish, while the women get ready to sell it directly on the beach.
Assoyam
  • 20m
Visit the village of the N'Zima fishermen and see how they smoke the fish.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESMusee National des Costumes
    • Boulevard Treich-Laplene
    • Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLELagune live, plein air ideal en famille
    • Grand-Bassam, District du Comoé, Ivory Coast

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