Senegal Travel Blogs

Senegal
Mar 3, 2005 (7 photos)

... Corps bureau, which was located across from the Grand Mosque in the Medina quarter, which felt very African indeed. Senegal is an extremely Muslim country, which means that the streets become significantly less trafficked at prayer times. Cars will ...

bodies carved from ebony
Nov 7, 2007 (55 photos)

Day 21.   7 November 2007 (Dakar, Senegal)   We're having breakfast when we're told the ship has been cleared.  We're warned that the dock is covered in oil and dirt so we should be careful and be prepared for our shoes to get dirty ...

Time difference in the dark side of Dakar
Apr 23, 2006 (3 photos)

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St Louis
Jan 13, 2003 (7 photos)

... them in buckets on their heads. Sunset there was really nice. We left Nouakchott early on 8th Jan to head for the Senegal border, we couldnt spend longer in Mauritania as our visas were running out. We were aware that there were 12 police checkpoints ...

Dakar
Jan 19, 2003 (10 photos)

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Dakar in our entry from Bamako, Mali. Cheers, K & S

Spring cleaning and some darn good feelings
Jul 20, 2007

... - he taught himself English and recently just got first in his whole school and he gives me such hope for the future of Senegal) has been helping me with my community entry research and I recently just completed a map of my town.  Two evenings during ...

De Nouakchott à Richard Toll (Sénégal)
Feb 4, 2008 (5 photos)

Nous avons décidé de quitter la Mauritanie par le Sénégal pour éviter d'exposer davantage nos vies qui vous sont précieuses. Le hasard a fait que nous avons retrouvé Jacques (Routard armé d'un vrai 4x4, c'est à ...

Dakar!!!!!
Feb 26, 2009 (94 photos)

... 't really know who organizes the tournament, but teams from various Peace Corps countries, as well as teams from the UN and Senegal competed.  The Mauritanian Pirated won, of course, so it made the trip that much better.    I pretty much just ...

New Year's Eve in Africa
Dec 31, 2007

It would be truly amazing if I gained weight on this trip. I am stuffed after a big dinner (so yes, I did eat the food over there-at least for a little while). I am slowly becoming more optimistic about the trip despite our last few meetings with the ...

Going home!
Oct 28, 2008 (2 photos)

... took us to the airport.  We checked in and back to the USA! Long fligiht.  Eight and a half hours to Dakar, Senegal and another nine and a half to Atlanta...then to Indianapolis.  All in darkness.  We were happy to get back home.  ...

Tabaski
Jan 11, 2006 (14 photos)

... Lauten haben, er findet das total lustig. Mutong, Restaurang, Orangschensaft... Jedenfalls ist das jetzt mein erster Abend im Senegal, der nicht erfüllt ist von Schafgeblöke. Direkt hier vorm Haus war eine kleine Herde "Mutongs" auf dem Mittelstreifen ...

When mango season ends, the mangos are sour...
Dec 29, 2008

... ; They made a perfect head wrap!!  Then we met my father in Dakar and had a wonderful two weeks touring the coast of Senegal, relaxing on the beach to riding camels in sand dunes, mom and dad even salsa danced to sabaar drumming!  We slept in a ...

de Matam à Bakel
Feb 7, 2008 (5 photos)

Nos célèbres reporters ont décidé ce soir que les 1/2 finales de la coupe d'Afrique de football étaient plus importantes pour le contact avec les populations que leurs élucubrations plus ou moins humoristiques quotidiennes. Néanmoins par amour du ...

Island of Gorée
Dec 20, 2005 (5 photos)

The island of Gorée is nice, calm, colourful we felt relaxed there, except some people who are always on you to sell you something that you don't care. We arrived there by boat which takes 30 minutes to go there from Dakar. The best thing is to walk and ...

Holdays and St. Louis!
Jan 10, 2009 (44 photos)

... Day.  It was a nice start to a great little vacation.   After Xmas, we all started working our way down to St. Louis, Senegal for a week of relaxing.  I wish I had more to tell you, but that is pretty much all we did.  I stayed in a ...

Travelers' Advice
Aug 21, 2007

Random advice for future visitors to Senegal: don't eat overripe fruit (feeling the effects of learning this one the hard way...); re-apply sunscreen; even though you think a safari style hat with rim all around will get you made fun of, it will actually ...

Not off to a good start
Dec 3, 2006 (5 photos)

Our joyful reunion was in try Banjul airport style: Him standing for two hours waiting for luggage in the steaming heat, me climbing up onto a post to try to see him, frantically waving through the crowd, pushing through the throng and me jumping like a ...

It keeps getting better and better Alhumdililhy
Aug 17, 2007

So I know its been about a month since I last wrote so this is gonna be a long one so be warned and advised that a nice tall glass of iced tea and a lemon (wow I wish i had me some of that right now!) would be nice to have near by. Ok so at this moment ...

Stuck on a runway waiting, first African sunrise!
Jul 16, 2007

South African Airlines decided to be really cool and make us change plane in Dakar Senegal, at 5:20 in the morning, before they had planed everything out. We ended up sitting on the plane for a really long time before they let us off. Then when we were ...

Nguith: My new home
Apr 17, 2007

Asalam Malekum! So Im writing this e-mail over again because last night there was a power outage...it happens quite freqently in fact and usually it means a nice candle lit dinner with my awesome host family but this time it also erased my e-mail, the ...

Maxence story (3ème épisode)
Feb 6, 2008 (4 photos)

Décidément, pas de chance! Le papa de Babacar, Gaoussou a été malade cette nuit car il a mangé hier soir du foie de hyène grillé. La hyène mange les animaux morts qui sont pleins de petites bestioles qui mangent le ventre de Gaoussou. Mais Papy lui a donné les ...

2 week update
Apr 24, 2009

Hey Everyone! Thanks for all the nice messages and sorry I cant reply individually. Things are going really well now that I have started on my placementsso time is flying by! On Monday to Wednesday mornings I am helping out with 4 and 5yr olds at ...

Two Braids are Enough for Me
Jan 3, 2008

I woke up early to take my last warm shower before we headed into "the bush." I braided my hair, hoping it would disguise any dirtiness. I donned the skirt Allison gave me for Christmas along with a turquoise shirt-for my 'Aéropostale goes to Africa' day. ...

Edioungou
Jan 11, 2006 (14 photos)

Seit vorgestern Abend bin ich zurück in Dakar. davor hab ich drei Tage in Ziguinchor verbracht, eine im Dorf bei Oussouye und zwei in Cap Skirring. Außerdem hab ich ausführlich Bekanntschaft mit dem ÖPNV Senegals gemacht, war am Strand, im Meer schwimmen und ...

Video Killed the Radio Star
Mar 7, 2006 (2 photos)

... people in this town are also all quite tall and lean. Like really really tall. I don't know if that's the Wolof or Senegal, but it's true. They're also really dark, almost ebony. It's amazingly beautiful and makes me realize how much American blacks must ...

African Safari
Jan 2, 2008

The New Year made us ambitious. We had planned on rising early to catch the sunrise and though Emily's alarm did not go off, the boys came by to wake us up. We hurried and since we did not need to pack until later, we rushed out to look at dawn streaking ...

Acelarando o ritmo
Nov 7, 2008 (10 photos)

... -se « missionarios de Sérigne Touba » e são indigitados pelos seus Marabouts a irem mendigar num ponto qualquer do Senegal para depois reverter esse dinheiro para os agricultores que estão na penuria. Quanto tempo têm de mendigar ? O Marabout é ...

The Desert
May 18, 2009 (2 photos)

I took my first trip away this weekend to a place called Desert de Lompoul. We left on Saturday morning in a 4x4 and stopped off at a few villages on the way...amazing to see how the rural people live! Such a slow and peaceful way to exist! Then we had a ...

Mbam
Dec 26, 2005 (10 photos)

... ). For them the sugar is very expensive and they traffics of it at the border of gambia because it is sold cheaper than in sénégal so some people trade it. But they gave us coffee, bread, butter and sugar. We decided to eat outside because outside there were ...

Du Sahara à l'Afrique Noire : quelques réflexions
Feb 4, 2008

... ;                     DU FLEUVE SENEGAL,                        ...