Country Info
- Dakar
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 10,284,929
- Population
- SN
- Country Code
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Senegal
Travel Blogs from Senegal
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Update #1
... no. It should have been as simple as that but it is actually impossible to make collect calls or use foreign calling cards from Senegal. Finally some nice guy let Sarah use his cell phone to make the call and we were able to get it sorted out. ...
Tabaski
Huch, 6. November schon, zwei Wochen lang hab ich nicht mehr geschrieben, dabei ist eigentlich doch eine ganze Menge passiert. In St. Louis bin ich schon ziemlich daheim, am Campus kenne ich mich in der Zwischenzeit gut aus und auch die Stadt habe ich ...
arrival
While exiting the airplane in Dakar Denise (girl studying with me) was told by a senegalese person that in Europe poeple get killed by time. In Africa it's the people that kill the time. Only after a few days here i can say i totally ...
lazy sunday
sun 17/2 I had a super lazy day .... late rise, off for a lovely sunday buffet lunch at a club called the "TERROU-BI" where there is also a tremendous pool. Thoiugh they are having some building work done there at the moment, it is still a lovely ...
Joal
Went to Joal today for a little fishing A 2 hr drive frm Dakar, Joal was once a small fishing village...but now is a touristic centre and has grown over the years...it now holds similar reputation as Saly a very popular town among tourists coming from ...
School Visit
While here in The Gambia we have met many school children who have asked for pens, balls and other school supplies. While we can't help them all, we did stop at at rural school today, where Pegasus passengers throughout the season have pitched in to ...
Die Gesänge der Bruderschaften
... , gefährlich und definitiv zu stark!) zu sein und es lässt mich hoffen, dass die maghrebinische Al-Quaida im Senegal nicht Fuß fassen wird können – ganz im Gegensatz zu den Nachbarstaaten Mauratanien oder Mali, wo gestern in Timbuktu (wo ich ja ...
Hello Everyone!
God has put me in a unique position and I only have one road to take. I have seeked the knowledge and know too much to turn back now. Although this path can seem challenging it is nonetheless rewarding. Through perseverance in my effort to help people ...
Morning already?!
Just when I was finally falling asleep, ready to get a good nap in, the time turned from about 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. just like that! I couldn't believe it. Why was the sun out!? AHHH. It felt like we had just eaten our late night ...
chez omar
kafountine, chez omar... campement dans le jardin... Singe qui passe dans les arbres au dessus de ma tęte lorsque je me réveille... Julien rentre en France... Une page de mon voyage qui se tourne... une nouvelle ā ...
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 ...
A tough week
... 't support me or try and help me, they just leave me. I think that is generalmly the way stuff is done in Senegal schools though Tuesday afternoon I went to see a project which works with street kids... Looked so much more relaxed and fun ...
Hustling the hustlers on the streets of Dakar
Dakar is a buzzing, colourful and vibrant place of crowded streets where bright and battered car rapides, aging buses, taxis, animals, stall holders, cart drivers, and old women with impossible loads balanced on their heads compete ...
Birding in Tendaba
This morning we woke up early and boarded a motor pirogue with our naturalist, Assan, and explored some of the small, mangrove-lined "bolongs" that feed the river. We must have spotted over 20 species of birds, from kingfishers to eagles. We also spotted ...
Africa: Take 2
... more about all this tomorrow, but for now, here's an excerpt from an email I just sent my parents: I made it safely back to Senegal, though I didn't sleep much on the plane. I was able to catch a taxi from the airport to my homestay, then my mother ...
camping
More exciting news.. we finally have electricity in the apartment! We didn't have electricity for the first week and when it was finally turned on the water was shut off. Yay...no water, back to washing my hair in a bucket.. and the extended camping ...
The arrival at Dakar and the journey to Saly
Good evening! At 22h50 (more or less), we finally landed at the Dakar International Airport. When arriving at the terminal, in front of us 4 huge queues for the customs police. It took us about 30 minutes for passport check and enter the country. After ...
Goree Island
As a nice weekend break from my week of training in our Senegal office, I got the chance to visit Goree Island. Goree Island, also known as House of Slaves, used to be a be a slave island during European colonization from 1536 to 1815 (almost 300 ...
Pictures of Slavery
It was incredibly humbling to be in the place where for 300 years, human beings were captured and held like animals, until the day when they were herded through the door unto the slave ships. Many died in this place, many more died on the slave ...
Update # 4
Bonjour tout le monde!!! I had some free time so I thought I would go ahead and drop the 50 cents for an hour's worth or Internet and send and update on my "adventures." Sarah and I left Dakar on Wednesday and headed to Saint Louis. We ...
Trip to Pikine
... group and followed us out to our buses to tell us goodbye. It was a crazy but amazing start to my trip here in Senegal. I was joking with Mom that it may have been a better transition into international travel if I would have experienced Mexico first, ...
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 ...