Country Info
- Dakar
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 10,284,929
- Population
- SN
- Country Code
Dakar Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dakar, Senegal
Ending with a bang
... in Dakar after 12ish hours of flying/airport time around 2am on Sunday night/ Monday morning, with hardly any prior knowledge of Dakar or Senegal and no idea what to do when I got here. When my backpack finally came out through the baggage claim, ...
Ausflüge in und um Dakar
... wir samstags nachgeholt. Durch den Salzgehalt leuchtet das Wasser rosa. Bekannt in Europa ist er hauptsächlich, weil dort die Rallye Dakar endet. Wie bereits erwähnt ging es mir nicht besonders gut, so dass ich während der Überfahrt mit einer kleinen ...
Cap Skirring
... zu dem Preis, zu dem der erste Taxifahrer uns auch gefahren hätte. An diesem letzten Abend vor der Rückkehr nach Dakar waren wir erst in Philipps Bistro direkt am Flussufer, wo man ganz wunderbar bei einem kalten Gazelle den Sonnenuntergang genießen ...
Dakar
... steht sehr malerisch ganz in Strandnähe in einer kleinen Bucht. Dort bot sich mir dann auch das typische Senegal-Postkarten-Motiv: Fischer, die mit ihren Pirogen aufs Meer rausfahren, dem Sonnenuntergang entgegen. Kitschig schön. Abends gings wieder ...
Vamos até Dakar (Fr+Pt)
... 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 ...
Keur Massar (Fr+Pt)
... , moi 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 ...
Toubab
A friend told me before I left Mali for a 4-day excursion that Dakar, Senegal was a great combination of the Europe and West Africa, but I thought of Dakar as a Bamako 2.0. Just seconds outside the airport and I saw all the signs that I was in fact in ...
O Visa (Fr+Pt)
... com muito melhores modos transmitindo-me porém a noticia que ja esperava « não podemos fazer nada, és como um fantasma no Senegal, agora so tens é de chegar a fronteira com a Gâmbia e explicar a tua situação. Eles serão ...
Cultural differences
... children from each m other, as well as in-laws, distant cousins, and sometimes family friends all in the same compound. Here in Senegal, families are your support system, and noone is left on their own. The perception of the "American norm" to turn 18 ...
Allah taw-en Nargaro!
Allah Taw-en Nargaro! ( may God find us next year) Alhumdouliliah, the fast is OVER. Though most of you are not celebrating the start of a'new year', I send my best wishes for health, happiness, and ..in the spirit of the Senegalese..money, to all of ...
Getting there: a long ride through Senegal
... stare at us wide-eyed tubabs in our "Gambia Tours" bus, peering from the windows of our self-enclosed cage, barreling through Senegal, only extending our touch towards the people on the streets for a random purchase of candy or cigarettes (not for me, ...
transport blues
... is the 28 or so hours it took me to get here. I went to the garage in Kolda on Monday around noon. In Senegal all transport by vehicle is arranged at the garage, which is usually a shaded structure with dozens of women and children selling things ...
the arrival
... come from munich - the last thing is that there was too much snow so the plane could take off later We finally arrived at dakar where some friends of our friends were waiting for us ( foryunately because it was 4am) and they brought us to their house. ...
.... Dakar, presque la fin du voyage
Après la nuit en bus, ou j'ai quand même pu dormir un peu je suis très curieux de cette ville... on voit que c'est très différent de ce que j'ai vu jusqu'à maintenant... il y a beaucoup de "blancs" et on trouve de tout.... Après tous ces efforts ...
Sarre Kemo
Hello! I hope you all had a nice 4th of july! I certainly missed the yearly family get together in Maine. Here in Kolda we did our best to recreate the american experience with some loud music, and lots of good american style food. On the night of ...
Holidays in Dakar!!
Having said that spending 3 months in Malaysia is not that usual for me, spending Christmas in the sun in Senegal is even more unusual ! I think that this year is one of the years in my life when I have seen sun the most!! I love it!!! Even ...
Skiving in Senegal
... day weekend that would definitely without question be a holiday appeared the perfect opportunity to visit the Dakar, the capital of neighbouring country Senegal. The main section of the journey involved a 6 hour car journey from the Senegalese border ...
Second Round of Pictures!
Hello hello, I've been in Dakar doing some research and prep work for some of my projects, that and I needed to get out of the village for a bit, I had my first feelings of bitterness or perhaps you could call it the tiredness of the ...
The pink lake
... and to enjoy as much as we can. They brought us this day see the pink lake which was the arrival of the Paris-Dakar. This is a big lake with a special plankton which gives the lake its color. This plankton gives also the color of prawns and flamingo. ...
Gorée (Fr+Pt)
J'étais à la maison en train de me renseigner sur Gorée que je ne comptait pas visiter du à mon manque de fonds, quand Tata Annette me repérant largué dans une telle tâche s'est dépêchée de me trouver un moyen de bidouiller un moyen de me faire ...
Senegal luxe
... , Julie, Kareem, and I went with their friend Izzy to the Sine-Saloum delta, where a major river meets the ocean south of Dakar. The drive itself took about 3 1/2 hours, about half of that on dirt roads that have seen better days. Kareem had a ...
Petit Paradis
Enfin du repos dans ce charmant hotel. Avec la formule que je prefere cad un hotel de standing avec un dortoir qui coute pas cher avec vu sur la mer (à 2 m de la porte) et surtout je suis seul dans le dortoir. Donc pour 5 euros/jour j ai un endroit ...
Giving Thanks
Hello! A Happy Thanksgiving to you all. I'm going to keep this message short because im running low on time before i have to make the mashed potatoes for the thanksgiving dinner im having with the other volunteers currently staying at the regional ...
The last blog from snowinsenegal...I'm coming home
Hello everyone, So this is it. The last entry I will make from Senegal and I'm feeling really good about it because its just time for me to go home. I've learned more in two years living in Senegal about development than I think I ever could back ...
Senegal på egen hand
... vårt beslut är detta citat från Wilnas blogg ”Mauritania sucks”. Efter fyra sköna dagar i Dakar var det dock dags att lämna Senegal via en låååååååååång längre längst busstur.......... Fortsättning följer i nästa nummer. ...
Its a long way to Africa
... love her, keeps telling me we have 10 hours to go till we lie flat. We are currently on the ground in Dakar for refueling and new passengers. We are eyeing a 5 across empty row in the vicinity….hopefully the good people of ...
The Fembaade
No, 'Fembaade' has nothing to do with the Pulaar feminist movement.. Hello! Lots of news to share this time around, i'll try to get it all down as short-windedly as possible. the most recent adventure: I have been friends with Fatou and Moussa ...
worst last few days
DAY 1 Crossing the border back into Senegal was a unhindered task for some reason. I was expecting the usual demands for money in return for all the unnecessary paperwork. This didnt end here though. Very soon all the hustlers swooped down and gathered ...
The day the ratio was reversed!
I had a quiz today in Islam. It was only six questions and we had to use a scantron to bubble in our answers. What a waste of paper but I don't blame him for not wanting to grade them when he could be outside sunbathing instead with the time ...
A year of travelling!
So much planning, dreaming, waiting and finally we were on our way, starting our trip of a lifetime. From South America, to Cuba, USA, UK, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Greece, the Pyrenees, back to the UK, then off to the mighty continent of Africa. ...