What motivates us is to build the inner strength of every human being and to allow every tree to grow its roots.
The Aduna’m Centre offers cultural and sportive activities as well as sustainable agriculture. It was created by the DIALLO family who have been investing into the attractiveness of their homeland for the last 40 years.
Issa Diallo and his brothers and sisters established the Aduna’m Centre to continue the pioneering work their parents had begun.
The Aduna’m Centre is based in a remote area of Senegal, yet via its activities, it allows to build economic, cultural and social bridges with the rest of the world. Furthermore, it helps develop the local culture.
This unique place offers eco-touristic holidays in the region of Fouta Toro, North of Senegal. Visitors will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the everyday village life.
The Aduna’m Centre is located in the North of Senegal, in the Fouta Toro region.
Nearby, the Great Senegal river flows by until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean in the city of Saint-Louis du Senegal.
Aduna’m is part of Médina N’Diathbé, a traditional peul village. Peul are the ethnic tribe traditionnaly living there.
The French TV travel programme “Echappées Belles” dedicated an episode to the region of the Senegal river. Click here to watch!
Fouta Toro is the oldest inhabited territory of the region.
When visiting villages and traditional markets, you will still come across ancestral traditions where trade, craftmanship and farm work have remained authentic.
The Aduna’m space consists of 40 hectares; 4 hectares are dedicated to agriculture and cattle breeding. In this way, we aim to become autonomous in our food production.
The Centre offers temporary and permanent lodgers 30 beds and all the basic commodities (water, electricity, internet).
It also provides common areas among which wellness and cultural spaces.
Double Rooms
12 double rooms are available. They all include:
A twin bed, a bathroom (cold water only) and dry toilets*.
Fee per night
23€/ 25.5$/19.6£ (ou 15 100 FCFA), breakfast included.
Traditional hut
We also offer accommodation in 10 traditional huts with a twin bed.
All the necessary commodities (toilets, shower, electricity, Internet) can be found nearby in the shared area.
Fee per night
15€ / 16.8$ / 12.8£ (ou 10 000 FCFA), breakfast included.
“A life in harmony with nature and a space for self-development”
* Following our ecological principles, we offer dry toilets whose content will be composted in the garden. For people with reservations against dry toilets, we also offer flush toilets.
All our food is home-made with the fresh ingredients harvested from our fields. We cook our traditional Senegalese dishes on a wood fire.
Take advantage of our healthy dishes, cooked with fresh organic vegetables. Our experienced cooks will be happy to introduce you to our savoury Senegalese dishes!
4,50€ / 5,2$ / 4£ (or 3000 FCFA) per meal
Indoor and outdoor relaxation areas
Aduna’m will offer you the ideal eco-touristic holiday in Senegal.
You will enjoy the traditional and comfortable accommodation; you’ll be able to take part in the life of a local community in the heart of a green oasis.
You are welcome to contribute to the farming or cultural activities and to relax in the designated areas.
Internet
Our interior relaxing area is equipped with a computer and internet access.
– Organization of cultural and sportive events;
– Argo-ecology;
– Eco-lodge for ecotourism and private events.
You can help Aduna’m reach this goal:
-By becoming a voluntary helper: Come and share your know-how with Aduna’m!
– Via a sponsorship: Become sponsor of Aduna’m with a financial contribution
– By visiting our eco-lodge
If you want to donate to the Aduna’m non-profit organization: Click here
To know more about our workshops, or to book your event, consult our news page or contact us!
Aduna’m is regularly organising workshops for beginners and advanced participants.
One of our goals is our hosts’ mental and physical wellness. The surrounding nature is mesmerising and invites to meditation.
The story of Aduna’m is closely linked to the story of capoeira in Senegal. Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art-dance that has its roots in Africa.
Experienced capoeira masters often travel from Brazil to Aduna’m to give classes.
Aduna’m is also a place to practice African dance and yoga.
Hosts can enjoy:
All the classes include a transfer from Dakar to Aduna’m.
More Capoeira worshops to come!
See 1st edition in video
of “Capoeira meets Yoga” workshop
To discover, learn or simply taste, enjoy the agro-ecological area of Aduna’m!
Three hectares of our site are dedicated to growing vegetables, fruits and cereals.
Cattle, sheep, goats, hens and roosters accompany the life of the space while a borehole provides water.
Would you like to do woofing in Senegal? Discover or know more about agro-ecology?
Contact us!
We first and foremost aim at becoming autonomous with our food production,
but further goals are:
Team building, workshops or wedding, organize your own event in the Aduna’m area!
You want to organize an eco-tour in Senegal? A cultural or sport session for your colleagues or friends?
Organize an event in an amazing natural area? Make yourself feel at home at Aduna’m!
a sustainable search engine
Magali, from the Humuni association, conducted a superb interview with us as part of her project Partageons Demain!
We also interviewed the members of the Mélodie Art’s associationwho made a stay at Aduna’m in July 2019.
The ConsoGlobe site published an interview with us in their series “Portrait of eco-actors”.
We welcomed a group of young musicians from Reunion looking for their roots. Discover their interview !
Our YouTube channel
the memories (guestbook)
Un grand merci à David, Victoria, Eleanor et Alexander Russell pour leur soutien. 73 arbres financés, un bond en avant pour la forêt-jardin de l’Espace Aduna’m, un pas de plus vers Dame Nature.
At Bountou Pikine station in Dakar you will have the choice between:
7-place car (20€ / 22.40$ / 17£)
9 to 11-hour journey
Van (14€ / 15.7$ / 12£)
13 to 15-hour journey
Bus (11€ / 12.3$ / 9.3£)
12 to 14-hour journey
To book an ecotourist stay, for any information, for workshops or woofing, or for any special asking use the following form:
