Dakar, 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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Dakar
Jan 19, 2003 (10 photos)

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

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 ...

Going home!
Oct 28, 2008 (2 photos)

... Joline 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 12, 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 ...

Island of Gorée
Dec 20, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 to see the different places that are beautiful.

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 ...

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 ...

Edioungou
Jan 11, 2006 (14 photos)

... . In der Stadt gibt es ein großes Denkmal für die Opfer des Untergangs der Joola, der großen Fähre zwischen Dakar und Ziguinchor, die vor ein paar Jahren wegen Überladung und mangelnder Wartung gesunken war. Damals sind ein paar tausend Leute ums Leben ...

Recepção calorosa em Dakar (Fr+Pt)
Nov 5, 2008 (3 photos)

... irresistivel. Logo me mete à vontade dizendo que a trate por « tu », explicando que no wolof (lingua nacional mais falada no Senegal) o « você » não existe. Domingo, dia que se seguiu ao da minha chegada, é dia de refeição em familia. Uns 20 ...

Will the Travelling Never Stop?
Mar 6, 2006 (1 photos)

... Boston to New York. Seven hours is not nearly as long as I would have thought, and the flight from New York to Dakar, Senegal was over before I knew it (really should have opted for sleep over watching Elizabethtown, it was a terrible movie anyway) and ...

Impaaaaalaaaaa
May 23, 2009 (14 photos)

... them) and put them in our lap so that security could make sure no one intentionally left a bag on the plane and got off in Senegal.  Finally we were ready to go.  They had to spray the plane once the doors were closed in order to kill any bugs ...

Dakar dafa lekk xalis!
Feb 19, 2008

... few day trips to national parks as a mini vacation.  I was working hard on SeneGAD stuff which is Peace Corps Senegal's Gender and Development committee to help volunteers work with girls and boys, women and men to learn to integrate gender equality ...

Stopped for fuel
Feb 7, 2009

We stopped for fuel in Senegal but were not allowed off the ship  :(

Slummin' it in Senegal
Apr 9, 2006 (4 photos)

... & mouse turd" checks were not necessary, we plunged back into the developing world by flying from Casablanca, Morocco to Dakar, Senegal. We arrived at 3am and approached the airport exit with our "scam/crime" antenna fully extended. Amongst travelers, ...

St. Louis
Jan 20, 2006 (5 photos)

... mit Pailletten, Samt und Satin. Aber das entspricht der Erfahrung, die ich auch schon in Dakar gemacht habe: Das Wort "overdressed" entbehrt im Senegal (oder zumindest in den größeren Städten) jeglicher Bedeutung. Du kannst in einer fliederfarbenen Abendrobe ...

Dakar propriamente dita (Fr+Pt)
Nov 5, 2008 (10 photos)

... de Gorée é reservada aos endinheirados que possam desembolsar a soma necessaria para se alojarem nos hoteis à beira-mar. O Senegal, como a maior parte dos paises não produtores de petroleo e sobretudo paises africanos que estupidamente acabaram por se ...

"Laundry day is a very dangerous day"
Aug 30, 2007 (2 photos)

... , my adventure this week was not the usual tourist adventure. It was the following. The hotel is probably the single nicest hotel in Dakar. If you see photos of it you image luxury paradise. To be honest, inside the rooms you feel a bit more like Motel 8. ...

Dakar-Popenguine-Somone-Sali-Mbour-Joal-Ndangane
Oct 1, 2007 (5 photos)

... little Nabou, Imam and Bilal). I want to especially thank Marie and Carole for hosting me during these weeks spent in Dakar.   I thought of pursuing the trip with Djibril and Angelica, but this couldn't happen. Then I decided to further look for a ...

Mass and urchins
Aug 26, 2007 (9 photos)

Sunday morning several of us piled into a bus and headed out of Dakar in search of a monastery where we'd heard the monks were renowned for their Gregorian chant and hand-made products. Of course, you'd think we'd learn a bit faster, given that we've all ...

AFRICA AT LAST
Jan 18, 2007 (1 photos)

... acclimitizing to 31 degree celsius weather, sand, dirt, dust, air pollution, innmerable touts selling goods and services.  Dakar is a big sprawling somewhat chaotic city.  Board Dakar-Bamako express train, now owned by a Canadian company for a ...

Day 15 : Dakar (Benjamin leaving)
Jul 18, 2007 (46 photos)

Benjamin left today. He woke up early as he was still a bit sick, and we gently got ready to go and meet my former colleague at USAM (Union sportive de la Marine), where Ben and I played a game of Pétanque. Once his tennis achieved, Paul had a drink with ...

A expulsão (Fr+Pt)
Nov 5, 2008 (2 photos)

... séjour chez elle. Pas de problème, allez hop, prochain arrêt : inconnu. Une seule certitude, ce sera en dehors de Dakar, je veux m'éloigner toute de suite. Les mauvaises expériences comme les bonnes sont acceptées comme faisant partie du parcours, je ne m' ...

Day 14 : Mboro Plage - Dakar
Jul 18, 2007

... was nice, with many baobabs around, and a side-of-the-road refuel with a pleasant encounter with kids. Entering Dakar through Rufisque was particularly a nightmare because of usual massive traffic congestion. My buddy Quentin picked us up at a meeting ...

Starting West African camping
Oct 29, 2005 (6 photos)

Miles traveled: 15978 Bonjour from West Africa! We are in Dakar, Senegal, on the very westernmost tip of the African continent. This is Nathan's 5th time and Anna's 3rd time to sub-Saharan Africa, with its many cultures, peoples, scenery, and of ...

Safe if not entirely sound
Aug 18, 2007

... of the work I will be doing Monday. We'll get to that, too.   First of all, at 6 in the morning, Dakar is a happening place! Several nightclubs were overflowing with revelers all along my drive to the hotel and a French chain bakery's parking lot ...

Vamos até Dakar (Fr+Pt)
Nov 3, 2008 (5 photos)

... je refuse je risque de passer au moins la nuit  à la frontière et rater l'occasion de ce passage qui me ramènerait jusqu'à Dakar, devant après en trouver un autre. J'étais fatigué et ayant comme seule envie d'avancer j'ai acceptée la proposition. Il y a au ...

Keur Massar (Fr+Pt)
Nov 7, 2008 (5 photos)

... je vais à gauche pour reprendre la route national vers Mbour. La prochaine fois, inch allah.   Determinado a sair de Dakar no proprio dia, avanço com o unico desejo de deixar km nas costas, passo pela autoestrada, entro na estrada nacional, ...