Senegal Customs - Correct | Customs and Immigration

April 9th, 2024 by m.reichardt

Senegal customs very easy, friendly and correct. Got new Passavant for 3 year old car for 5000 CFA with receipt.

March 2nd, 2024 by retailchaise19

No problems here. Car and luggage were searched on Gambian side. Senegal checked passavant, no problem. all smooth, 1h in total.

February 5th, 2024 by Toby2101

Everyone was friendly and helpful, CDP was correctly filled out, after the first border (only registrastion and CDP) , you need to ho further for ca. 500m on right side for the passports.
Direction was Gambia to Senegal.

October 16th, 2023 by benjamin.michaelis.net

Senegal to Gambia, didn’t stamp out cdp because we would soon cross back into Senegal

July 30th, 2023 by dutchdaf

Senegal to Gambia: very quick and friendly. managed to cross before 7 in the morning. Paid 3000cfa for the passavant (without cdp) which the locals were also paying. No money asked for stamps.

April 6th, 2023 by guipizzi

Senegal->Gambia

After passport scan I was taken to the office on the back. Officer asked for 5000CFA for a stamp. I said I knew I didn't need to pay anything and that I had spoken with the (Italian) embassy before coming to confirm. He insisted a bit but after 5 minutes he stamped the passport and let us go without paying anything. I reported this bribe attempt here: https://www.mofa.gm/contact
Not sure if it is the right channel but I encourage others to do the same.

March 5th, 2023 by travelove.org

Gambia - Senegal
Very easy, fast and friendly!
On Gambia side nobody felt responsible for stamping out the CdP, so we just went on to Senegalese side. No problem there, stamped our CdP in.
No questions about money, medicine or anything else. Fast and efficient, took us less than 1 hour to get through both sides.

February 28th, 2023 by boonsinca

Gambia to Senegal

Gambian side : very easy, didn't ask for any payment. Just a very extensive search of our vehicle although leaving the country which took more than an hour.

Senegal side:
We got a new passavant (we don't have. a CDP) for 2.500CFA.
one police officer asked 1.000CFA for a stamp. We refused to pay without receipt and told him we had called the embassy. He let us go without payment just afterwards.

February 20th, 2023 by kilimanjaro65

50 minutes Senegal to Gambia with drugs control, Gambia try to force us taking visa ( Switzerland) … after 10 minutes we got Transitvisa 24h for free. Stamp in ATA carnet without CPD …

February 10th, 2023 by chillaxplorers

Senegal to Gambia

Senegal correct. As descriped bevor. Gambian side tried to charge 10'000CFA pP. After unfriendly disscussion with up to 5 Immigration officers, we get stamp after 10min without paying. They take you to the office behind.

January 12th, 2023 by avaldesmolina

Senegal to Gambia
Senegal part east and friendly, nothing to pay, less than 5'
Gambia douane:
- After passport scan and fingerprint they conduced us to another room where two guys asked for 20€, be pacient, we declined to pay "as we have speak whith the embassy and they told us we have nothing to pay" after 15' or so they get tired of talling with us.
- for the Car without CDP we had to do a temporary passavant, cost 300 Dal. all the other people were paying so It seemed legal even though we didn't had a recipe.

September 19th, 2022 by Lemontree

Taking this border from Gambia to Senegal was nice and easy. On the Gambian side immigration and customs are on the right side of the road, just next to each other. Stamping the passports and CPD was done fast, we haven't been asked for money.
However, there were also people searching our car for drugs, especially weed and prescription medicine.

After a short drive you reach the Senegalese side of the boarder, where you can get the CPD stamped - small house on the left side.
After another short drive to a police station on the right side of the road, you will get the passports stamped. Also very friendly and easy.

June 19th, 2022 by thomaskintzinger

Best boarder in Africa so far. Fast, easy friendly and for free. They know how the Carnet funktions.

March 30th, 2019 by keller.pascal

Gambia side: very quick passport and CPD stamped. As we wanted to drive to Senegal side, a drug inspector stopped us and checked the entire car foe weed. We found a tiny little piece, smaller then a seed, and we had to go through the whole procedure. He was just searching for seeds or crumbs to get some money off us. After going trough a whole lot of paperwork, we ended up giving him a half broken compact camera and he seemed to be happy with that.

Senegal side: passport and CPD stamped in within 10mins.

Besides the weed detective, nobody asked for money.

November 19th, 2018 by unknown-roads.com

Small hut more or less at the entrance of the village after the bridge to the left.
Get my Carnet de Passage stamped after explaining where i entered and left countries before.

He asked something about a stamp i should do in Dakar after i entered through Rosso. Told him nobody explained me that. Was a little bit confusing and im not sure about the sense of that talk.

After the custom there is another small open counter also on the left side. Ckecked my passport.

Anyway got through without paying anything.

August 28th, 2017 by jkgeorge1579

We were traveling with 2 Swiss friends, and had already crossed into Senegal from the Mauritania border at Diama. They were not required to have a visa to enter Senegal.

When trying to re-enter Senegal from Gambia, they were told by Senegal immigration that they needed a visa, and tried to send them back to Banjul to the Senegalese embassy. He had an official looking form that showed which countries needed visas. All of our own online research showed that Swiss did not need a visa for Senegal. Eventually after lots of being yelled at by the officials, the immigration made a phone call and stamped them into Senegal. We think he was just waiting for money, but he never asked or hinted, so who knows?

December 12th, 2016 by pjmancktelow

Initial check in was incorrect. Its on the main road. This should be correct