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- Dakar
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 10,284,929
- Population
- SN
- Country Code
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Travel Blogs from Senegal
In Service Training
... including poultry and gineau fowl. Im going to skip the chicken raising considering they require a lot of vaccinations here in Senegal. I'll keep you posted on the rabbit situation. Once i get back to Kolda things will unfornunately start to slow ...
2008: a year to be entirely spent in AFRICA
... and last night for New Years, the party of the yougins, we had a disco at the school and I had a real good taste of modern Senegal dance. It was all really great but I felt like a spectator, an observer, not really part of it...looking at it all ...
JP et GG chez les Toucouleur (cf. Tintin au Congo)
Sur une piste longeant le fleuve, nous voyons un attroupement de femmes dans un village qui nous font de grands signes. Nous stoppons, sommes autorisés à prendre films et photos. Elles dansent et chantent pour nous et nous expliquent rapidement ...
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 ...
Foundiougne
We departed from Pointe de sarène and took a special car, the one which you can be 10 inside, to go to Mbour and from there a bus was supposed to go to foundiougne. We arrived at Mbour which is a typical city of sénégal, this is to say that there is ...
Quando a marcha compensa (Fr+Pt)
... à estrada. Actualmente vai a França uma vez por ano para trabalhar 2 meses durante a época das colheitas e depois volta para o Senegal onde não faz a ponta dum corno durante os 9 meses que restam. Casou com uma senegalesa e tem um kanuko. O kota é ...
Ending with a bang
... guide, Doudou, and a driver. Doudou went to university for geography and history and is a wealth of information about not just Senegal but Africa. Our driver was also named Doudou, so in French, I was with "deux Doudous" all day, which sounds ...
Ausflüge in und um Dakar
Die letzten Tage habe ich hier in Dakar bzw. mit Ausflügen in die Umgebung verbracht. Außerdem hab ichs mal wieder geschafft, mir einen Nerv im Rücken einzuklemmen oder so was, so dass ich tagelang ziemlich Schmerzen hatte. Dazu kamen ein paar ...
Birding Confessions
... friend with a knowing smile on his face, sensibly opted not to comment. For the three days we were wandering around Senegal he pointed out various feathered creatures as I feigned disinterest with decreasing success. By the time we returned to The ...
Cap Skirring
Wir sind dann doch noch nach Cap Skirring gekommen, Marius hat uns gefahren, mit Madame Cisse´ Auto. Die Gelegenheit wollten sich natürlich viele nicht entgehen lassen. Der Pick up hielt kurz und schon war die Ladefläche überfüllt von Leuten. Meine ...
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 ...
Day 97 : Palmarin - Somone
Today we went back to Somone to bring Sidy back there. Once arrived we left him go to work while we'd go to the Lagoon. After a quick picnic we had a long bath in the very hot water. Once finished we went back to see Sidy, who once again helped us out ...
Day 98 : Somone
Après être rentrés bien tard, nous avons passé une bonne nuit de sommeil et je me suis levé tardivement. J'ai alors entrepris, non sans mal compte tenu de vis bien rouillées, la réparation du phare gauche du Pinz et Mbacke m'a permis de faire ...
Vamos até Dakar (Fr+Pt)
Après deux heures et demi de marche sous un soleil impitoyable je me suis arrêté dans une station d'essence qui faisait penser à celles des films américains qui sont situés dans ces états pommés en plein milieu du désert, les bagnoles ...
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 ...
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 ...
Keur Massar (Fr+Pt)
Je décide donc de quitter Dakar carrément, mais c'est plus difficile de la traverser en sortant (la banlieue s'étend pour plusieurs kilomètres) qu'en allant vers le centre-ville. Mais je suis déterminé à laisser cet épisode derrière mon dos. 2h ...
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 ...
Back to Senegal!
... but greatly enjoyed another meal of big hunks of meat with sauce over rice with an appetizer of fluffy white French bread. The best food I've had travelling in a long while. Who would have thought I'd find it in Senegal? Next --> Mosques and ...
Joal fadiouth
As usual, we arrived there by night and we were looking for a hotel, we were walking but we walked for several kilometers, the thing was that we missed the hotel so we had to go back where we were. The day after we went to Fadiouth which is an artificial ...
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 ...
Ramadan: The Holy Conundrum
The days were long and hot but at 7:00 when the sun tucked itself into bed, Ndogo was wicked awesome. The family prayed together and then broke the fast with a fig and hot tea, why not water first to quench the intense thirst of Ramadan, well ...
the arrival
We had to take the plane around 9pm at paris orly but there were some problems: -the first one was that we were many people wanting to go to sénégal at this period so the company had to rent a german plane -unfortunately the plane was not at orly but ...
.... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...