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- Dakar
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- 10,284,929
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Familia Diallo (Fr+Pt)
Je ne m'étais pas trompé, la famille était super gentil et tout le monde m'a accueilli comme l'invité qu'ils attendaient depuis longtemps, tous se sont occupés de moi pour que rien ne puisse manquer. Mais rien ne manque jamais, on me donne trop, ...
Spécial Maxence: Babacar
Ouf! Nous avons échappé, en nous cachant bien,aux méchants bandits de Mauritanie. Nous sommes arrivés hier au pays de Mr Ukulélé, mais il n'est pas là car il a voyagé jusqu'à Ouagadougou. J'espère que nous le retrouverons là-bas bientôt. Par ...
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 ...
Pointe de Sarène
We took a bus which brought us near mbour, the place from where we could go further to the south, so the bus left us at the beginning of a track but we couldn't see the end of it. We've walked for 35 min and then arrived in a little village where the ...
Ziguinchor
... wäre die 12-Stunden-Tour sonst echt zur Qual geworden. Das jedenfalls ist die schnellste Variante des öffentlichen Personentransports im Senegal, vom Flugzeug mal abgesehen. Zunächst mal mussten wir in Dakar zur "Garage" bzw. gare routiere, von wo ...
Dakar-Popenguine-Somone-Sali-Mbour-Joal-Ndangane
As predicted I spent these days relaxing in and around Dakar... but not only I left an announcement at Centre Culturel Français as to get in contact with potential travelmates. It worked and I considered pursuing with Diallo (student girl from ...
AFRICA AT LAST
Spend last 4 days 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 ...
Day 15 : Dakar (Benjamin leaving)
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 ...
Réserve de Bandia
With the two french girls we deceided to go there because if you have your own car you don't pay for the 4x4 that they rent there. So at first we bought our tickets and our guide called "Mamadou", a very funny guy, and it was the beginning of the visit. ...
Day 96 : Somone - Palmarin
After a good night of sleep, we decided (as we had long-talked about it with Sidy) to go to his village. On the way we stopped at the traditional Joal and sacred Baobab (500 years, 32m circumference). Once we reached Palmarin, we looked for accomodation ...
Dakar propriamente dita (Fr+Pt)
... 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 ...
Bush camping
Bush Camp, 11/03 Miles Travelled: 16440 We are travelling inland now, toward the Senegal-Mali border. The roads are pretty good, but it's a long journey. We are "bush camping", meaning that we pick a spot where nobody's watching, and drive off ...
popenguine
After reflexion we decided to make this trip by ourselves and we went to popenguine, a little town near the coast where the people are very nice. We took the bus to go there but you have to see what kind of bus i am talking about, the one you wonder if ...
Podor (suite)
En fait nous avons passé la nuit dans la Maison de Guillaume Foy, ancien comptoir colonial restauré cette fois-ci le long des quais du fleuvve Sénégal. Hôtel datant de 1850 avvec de grandes hauteurs de plafonds, des fenêtres garnies de ...
Day 14 : Mboro Plage - Dakar
I got woken up by Ifra and Mbaye and went straight to the sea for a first quick wash and exercise. Then I joined the guys for a coffee, bread and butter, talks and smoke. We stayed there most of the day, receiving many young people from the village ...
Island of tears
... They try to reassure me but I can't help but be shaken by the venom of this kid, unlike anything I've experienced in Senegal or The Gambia.His slave reference is immature and unimaginative, designed to embarrass tourists and porters alike. I hope my group ...
Starting West African camping
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 ...
Mangrove
3 jours de repos dans la mangrove. Des scientifiques etaient present pour l inventaire de la reserve, et on pouvait les ...
A expulsão (Fr+Pt)
Depuis quelques jours je le sentais venir, la taquinerie avait cédé sa place à des remarques ironiques, je refusait de le croire malgré mon malaise grandissant, je me disait que ce n'était que dans ma tête, mais elles s'enchaînaient et de plus en ...
Day 12 : Nouakchott - Saint-Louis
... cyber-to-be's managers. So it took us only seconds to take the pist to Diama, 80 kms between the 2 countries along the Senegal River and the XXXXXX National Park. On our way we met only few people (apart from some police checks) including a Gambian ...
Day 6
So I am now on day 6 and I have finally found an internet cafe with a decent connection! After my induction I felt a bit more settled and got an idea of what things are going to be like in St Louis. Started my french lessons this week but dont think ...
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 ...
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 ...
A few pictures!
hello! thought i'd include a few pictures from the past six months. i'm hoping to add more within the next couple of ...
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 ...
Life in Kolda
... ideas for packages sent my way. Gladly, ill include some of my latest ideas. Jennifer Neves PCV BP 278 Kolda Senegal, West Africa Crystal light tea mixes any form of candy :) dried fruit Oatmeal or cream of wheat antibacterial soap (rainy ...
fishin' for food
Hello! I hope a pleasant Holiday season was had by all! I found my way back to Kolda yesterday on the 13 hour car ride from Kedegou with only one slight incident. Tabaski (Jan 10th) is the largest of the Muslim holidays and generally includes the ...
Cranky pants
Hello! Id like to start this message out by saying that i've never been so cranky in my whole life. For the past five days (today is day six) i have been fasting with my Senegalese family and friends. Ramadan began on the fifth of October and will ...