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- Dakar
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Dakar Slideshow
Dakar
Travel Blogs from Dakar, Senegal
Life is fragile
... incredibly intellectual person. His point of view is vastly different from mine and so we find ourselves disputing from time to time. I am happy that I chose Senegal and got the opportunity to live this experience here and make some incredible new ...
Teaching the Shooting Touch
Everything was set, as I looked around the renovated court. Campers eager to take the basketballs out of the bag and start learning. The eyes of each camper gazing at the coaches awaiting directions. The sun was as hot as ever beaming down making the day ...
Mad Max meets City of God
... t Langue de Baberie peninsula, for a few days we felt ready to face West African transport again. The bus from Saint Louis to Dakar is supposed to take about 6 hours, which was about accurate after a 4 hour wait it to set off. Dakar is supposed to ...
Live from Basketball Without Borders Africa
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 (Day 34)- I would first like to wish my father a Happy Birthday, It is still early here but I will call you around noon. I have been awfully busy, due to the fact that I have moved from my apartment to the hotel where the ...
Meeting & NBA's rendezvous to Dakar.
... for providing the camp with sufficient water supply, first aid equipment, refurbishing the courts and providing the most notable coaches from Senegal to run the different stations with me. We are even trying to get a NBA official to stop by during one of ...
Let the Games BEGIN!
... basketball my dream has not died but somewhat been altered. I also shared how received this amazing experience to come to Senegal and teach them basketball was not because of my awesome skills in basketball. (As most of them looked in ...
Dakar
On a hot morning I found myself squished in the boot of a station wagon alongside Ghalied travelling south towards Dakar. Somewhat apprehensive of arriving at Dakar after hearing various war stories of other travels heading North from this hard city. ...
"The Road to Success is always under construction"
... my first major road block of my 10 month journey. As some of you may or may not know, Islam is the prominent religion in Senegal. 90% of the people of Senegal are Muslims. August 11th marked the start of Ramadan. Ramadan is a time when Muslims around the ...
En direct de Dakar! :Reporting Live from Dakar!
BONJOUR!!!! It is just after 2 P.M. I am just now eating breakfast. I landed at 5 A.M. this morning the flight was smooth, I got some rest and watched "Invictus" and I thought it was a great introduction movie to my trip. I am now in the lobby of the ...
I Love This Game!
Monday (Day 25)- Today camp commenced with our regular routine of stretches and sprints and then we divided the campers into four groups. There is an older division ages (16-19) & younger division ages (13-16) division and they are also separated by ...
"The Return Of The Blog"
... junior league coaches. I have arranged to have two coaches from the SEEDS Academy (Sports for Education & Economic Development of Senegal) to run the stations with me. Everyone is glad that I chose Senegal as my first stop for my basketball journey. ...
Travelers' Advice
Random advice for future visitors to Senegal: don't eat overripe fruit (feeling the effects of learning this one the hard way...); re-apply sunscreen; even though you think a safari style hat with rim all around will get you made fun of, it will actually ...
Awakened too early
Greetings from Senegal--we are half-way to South Africa. The 7 hour flight was easy so far--nice plane and good food. But they woke us up to say we were landing in Dakar to refuel, change crew AND spray a stinky buy spray throughout the plane. Half way ...
"Laundry day is a very dangerous day"
... , my adventure this week was not the usual tourist adventure. It was the following. The hotel is probably the single nicest hotel in Dakar. If you see photos of it you image luxury paradise. To be honest, inside the rooms you feel a bit more like Motel 8. ...
Mass and urchins
Sunday morning several of us piled into a bus and headed out of Dakar in search of a monastery where we'd heard the monks were renowned for their Gregorian chant and hand-made products. Of course, you'd think we'd learn a bit faster, given that we've all ...
Safe if not entirely sound
... party crowd grabbing snacks before turning in for a very late, virtually nonexistent night. Where I'm staying is gorgeous. Dakar is beautiful too, with sandy beaches and rocky shores. Traditional Senegalese long boats can always be seen floating ...
Goal!!!!!
... anything! The game itself was amazing. I'll spare you the play-by-play, but you should know that Burkina beat Senegal in Burkina a while back but had since been eliminated from the Cup...lending that much more importance to a victory for Senegal. ...
Taxi ride
... a special event to create awareness and talk about solutions and possible intervention. We met with various people and chatted about Senegal and traveling, he and I reminisced about our time traveling in the States and the funny characters in our group. ...
Day out
... there before I leave! Several of us set out for a day trip Sunday, to the Lac rose (Pink Lake) where the Paris-Dakar rally ends up. I'm sorry, basically all I know is it's a car/truck/motorcycle race that starts and ends in the obvious cities, ...
The Man of Still...
... . Nothing. No one speaks English. This hospital is a large campus and no one apparently has emergencies in Senegal. And I am not getting any better. I can feel my fever getting higher, pain worsening, TD turned into ...
Crossing the Equator
Today we crossed the equator and there will be the usual ceremony attended by Neptune (The Third Oiler dressed up…poor sod) tonight, Word is if we play our cards right the Captain may order extra rations and a grog of watered rum. My eyes however ...
The Journey Meets an Octaogn...
... the entire country hadn't any ATM's. They agreed to spot me the fare and anything else I needed until we arrived in Senegal. Extremely grateful and cheerful all 7 of us squeeze into this station wagon 7 hours to the border. This ...
Ile de Goree, Senegal, October 27, 2007
... several miles out in the harbor with a French/Dutch colonial town and fort, is a short excursion by frequent tour boats and Dakar's star attraction. Goree is neat and clean and picturesque in the way that tourist spots are expected to be, more like ...
Dakar, Senegal, October 26 - 27, 2007
... the finer things all come with a very steep price tag and most of the population just does without, many virtually without anything. Dakar was the first place I noticed it but it turned out to be the case for most of West African cities that most ...
Crocs
Today we explored Banjul, the capital of The Gambia. We started at the National History Museum and continued on to a crocodile pool frequented by local women hoping to get pregnant. Legend has it that a bath with the crocs helps improve fertility. Not ...
vive lelectricite senegalaise
... mboro sur mer... cest a 3 heures de car de pikine mais cest telllllllllllllement beau la bas... dailleurs les plages du senegal sont assez exceptionnelles en general je dirais! cetait bien agreable nous etions 86 petits toubabs a festoyer tous en coeur ...
New Years Day in Dakar
We arrived in Dakar almost precisely at 5:00 AM (Midnight back in Baltimore) and wished each other Happy New Year. Dakar International airport was no big city transportation center. The plane we got off seemed bigger than the terminal. ...