Bianou festival

Agadez, Niger

The duration of the organized tour is 8 days. It is suitable for groups, works councils but can also be done individually. According to the needs, the tour can be customized by our travel agency.

Bianou is a typical Tuareg festival of the city of Agadez whose origins are very distant. The real celebrations last three days, although preparations are prepared 23 days in advance. The date of the festival varies from year to year. Each neighborhood has its own colors and flags. The men wear a rich boubou, large indigo-colored dresses, turbans with the characteristic shape of a rooster as well as the inseparable gri (the talisman brings luck) and epees, spears called takoubas. To the sound of drums, they sing and dance through the streets of the city to reach the sultan's enclosure and symbolically gather around the "Etebel", the drum emblematic of the unity of the Tuareg tribes.