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Travel Blogs from Tambacounda, Senegal
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New Year's Eve in Africa
... it is a way of trying to assert one's authority.) Again, the majority of the day was spent on the bus as we traveled to Tambacounda. We stopped in a small village, where a woman was kind enough to bring us to her home to use her bathroom. Though it was ...
Day 99 : Ngaparou - Tamba
Aujourd'hui nous avons quitté Sidy, Ngaparou et la Petite-Côte avec Kaly pour rejoindre Tambacounda. La route jusqu'à Kaolack était excellente. Comme nous étions en surnombre, un policier nous a réprimendé lors d'un contrôle, mais nous avons ...
counting down the days
Hello! counting down the days to what you ask? ..well, im getting ready to take my first real vacation from Senegal since arriving here a year and a half ago. For the sake of sanity i should have taken some time away before now, but whats done is ...
Giving Thanks
... make the mashed potatoes for the thanksgiving dinner im having with the other volunteers currently staying at the regional house in Tambacounda. My energy stores are waning because of the thanksgiving eve dance party we threw last night...and into the wee ...
An awesome rage at the end of a dusty road
... to bribe the embassy. Funny that, it wasn't what we were doing at all, but let's just say when we finally entered Senegal, the customs officers contradicted the embassy and, well it was an 'interesting' border crossing. First stop in Senegal was St Louis. ...
Niokolo-Koba, Senegal, October 28 - 30, 2007
... mashed potatoes, and ratatouille. We continued on the next day via the badly pot-holed road through Tambacounda, eastern Senegal's largest city. Most of the distance was sparsely populated with only occasional villages with thatched roof dwellings ...
Day 2 .. the longest trip of the TT 2011 ... 480km
... be desintegrated ... but it was still a lot of fun and excitement ! Second part of the day was a "liason" to Tambacounda .... 300km of highway ... through little towns, villages, etc ... boring but we have to cross 5 countries in 15 days ... ...
The first of many LONG days...
... and realized that if we didn't leave Basse right then, there was no way we would make it to our ultimate destination, Tambacounda (~2 hours from Velingara), that night. So the man who took our money hours before told us that we're waiting for one more ...
Ready for anything.... bring it on!!!
Unsuccessful at getting the truck out of the sand the night before we were all up at sunrise having another go. With the Baobab trees silhouetted against the sky it was all (or most...usual suspects not getting involved) on deck. Harder than it looked we ...
de eerste dagen Senegal
... en de oliefilter van Nettie vervangen. Een uur later zijn we weer vertrokken. We rijden verder in de richting van Tambacounda. We stoppen onderweg, net voorbij Birkelane, om een slaapplaats te zoeken. We vinden een rustig plaatsje naast de hoofdweg. Hier ...
Welcome to Senegal
... to sing! Anyway like I say just a couple of heavy driving days and bushcamps- however as the observant among you will note- I am now in Senegal. We are off to Niakolo National Park today for a couple of days- hopefully I'll see a hippo or two (and have a ...
Long and dusty road - complete with potholes
... ;5 yards. The track resembled a piste bashed ski run in places with the tracks left by a Caterpillar so trying to listen to a CD or even the iPod was useless. After 3 brief stops we arrived in Tambacounda at 18.30hrs. A long and very dusty ...
Timbuktu and back
Okay at last Ive got internet access and I can begin to boast about my side trip to timbuktu. We hired a jeep and 4 of us took 5 days to get there and then return and get back to catch up the truck. Grand Pere, the fixer who has been called GP since he ...
Just another day in Tambacounda, Senegal.
... exchange 10,000D for CFA, and what the rate would be. (Keep in mind, this amount is close to one's annual salary in Senegal and we were asking to exchange this amount right then and there). The rates they were giving us were horrible, but really we ...
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