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Travel Blogs from SAINT LOUIS SENEGAL, Senegal
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Spring cleaning and some darn good feelings
... - 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 ...
Holdays and St. Louis!
... Xmas 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 ...
The Desert
... went on a camel ride across the dunes which was very bumpy but such good fun and a great way to do it! Headed back to St. louis at lunchtime with luckily no flat tyres on the way! Back to work now which is going really well...the talibes in my Daara are ...
Sand, heat and bugs not dipped in Chocolate
Asalam Malekum Im still in Senegal. And some days its still hits me and I say "wow Im in Africa" this usually happens in the mornings when I wake up sweating because it is just so hot out; You can imagine that this does not lend itself to ...
The Circle of Life
Its amazing to feel all better. Life is truly beautiful again and I want to do and explore again. Some amazingly wonderful and not so wonderful things have happened lately: We had our first really big downpour. It was intense and ...
Day 12 : Nouakchott - Saint-Louis
... Mercedes's clutch was broken. We arrived at night at the lay-back backdoor entrance of Sénégal. We soon reached Saint-Louis after 5 administrative steps at the border. Once Eiffel's Faidherbe bridge crossed, we stopped at the Flamingo restaurant to ...
Day 6
... ..pretty used to that now too! Have tried some very weird food so far..not loving dried fish which is really popular in St. Louis. After lunch its 3 hours of french lessons at a school round the corner. Dinner is usually not until 9pm ish and so far has ...
First days
First few days here and everything is good...overwhelming at first but now I am settling in. my host family are lovely and luckily the dad speaks english!!!! starting my french lessons today so hopefully things will get easier in that respect:. Did my ...
Saint louis
We finally arrived at Saint louis a beautiful and rich city which remembers us the mood of Europe. There is indeed in this city drinkable water, showers and many things that we didn't find elsewhere. We spent the first in Saint Louis, visiting with Bago a ...
The Settling In
So the three days following that awful morning were in fact my first really sick days in Africa. I had a wopping headache that no amount of medicine or visits by the motchkat (medicine man) could lessen and I couldn't keep anything down. The ...
C'est parti pour le Senegal
Apres avoir utiliser une peugeot 504 pour 10 personnes, je suis arrivé vers 20h a Saint Louis ancienne capitale du senegale et point de transit important sur la route de l aeropostale. C est une ville qui possede son charme colonial et ou on peut ...
Ngiuth: My new Home for the next two Years
Hello Everyone! So here I am in Nguith with my new family. I am lucky to have Internet connection in my own home although if its too hot like it was yesterday the computer stays off...I think it was like 110°F yesterday and I've been eating so ...
A difficult morning
... on...but I promise they are coming. Also many of you have asked for my address again and so here it is: B.P 79 Linguere Senegal West Africa Also I have a list of some new things for care packages so please hold off all packages till I send it and ...
St. Louis, Africas equivalent to Cuba
... Mauritanian border when we arrived at 18:30. After the big headache and waiting for the guys at the Mauritanian border, entering Senegal was just the same big pain in the ... We crossed the river to commence another long wait and paperwork nightmare. ...
Sub-Sahara
... baby from Nouakchott to the border crossing of Rosso, from where we hitched a ride on a ferry to cross the border (the Senegal River marks the boundary between Mauritania and Senegal) and then got a 'sept'-person taxi (only eight adults and one baby this ...
The Travelling Growth: A year on
So it has been a whole year since Shaun had placed a sharp razor to his manly face, aiming to be clean shaven for a his last day of work. This therefore announces the first anniversary of 'the travelling growth'. He has done it, 'the travelling growth' ...
Chez Dimbo
... , Dimbo Cisse, came to pick us up at the taxi depot. For the past three days, we have been relaxing, exploring Saint Louis and its wonderful (although expensive) restaurants, and learning more about Dimbo and his lifestyle. The Rules of Chez Dimbo ...
Yes, My Name is Nabou
... some fun to my life which is always welcome and encouraged. That said, I wish everyone a very happy 17th of the month! Saint Louis has been marvelous (despite the housing issues in the previous entry), and both Sam and I have really enjoyed our time ...
Senegal
Sur la très bonne idée de mon oncle Yves, je vais vous transmettre mon numéro de compte en banques afin de subventionner mes voyages à venir... Cela permettra de continuer à me faire rêver à vous le faire partager... Qui vote ...
How to Survive a Village Stay
I woke up this morning in the European-ish city of Saint Louis in northern Senegal. I'm staying in a hotel that has air-conditioning, limited amounts of mosquitos, and hot showers. I didn't think I would feel hot water for another two and a half months, ...
Taxi Trouble
... with Sam and our crazy uncle, Dimbo. Riding in the taxi for five hours and having to stop halfway to Saint Louis in the desert-like atmosphere of rural Senegal because our taxi broke down gave me a great deal of time to think about why I hate taxis and ...
Senegal! 847km later
... we lee on the very crossing...it was fun and we were centre of attention! Time caught up and we got into Senegal at 7pm which meant a night ride to st Louis. Golden rule don't ride at night...you might just hit a goat! They say after the storm... We rode ...
A Change of Pace
... family planning clinics, have organized aid for persons with disabilities, are working in hospitals, and have opened several orphanages in both Saint Louis and Dakar. I haven't developed much of my project yet, but I do know that I want to return to Saint ...
Senegal
... when we arrived for what was ultimately a surprisingly smooth entry process into our third official country of the grand tour. Senegal immediately struck me as an entirely distinct culture from that seen in our last few weeks as we entered Black Africa ...
Yes, there is also Saint Louis in West Africa
... colonial architecture in decay, a lively port with 200 fishing boats leaving altogether at dusk, Saint Louis also features a spectacular show of electricity cuts. Senegal is facing an electricity crisis and tourists are facing some issues when eating ...
St Louis
... have drunk a few. That night I also met Ghalied the South African with whom I would spent the next 20 days at St Louis. Saint-Louis was named by the French after their king and use to be the capital city in Senegal up till 1958 and was previously the ...
Sans GPS, Still Not Lost
... to do would have been to hold it in his hand (as its very name suggests!). At least, while venturing into places like the Saint-Louis market. Hindsight is truly 20/20. The pity of it is that the device is an old model with little commercial value. Its ...
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