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- Dakar
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- 10,284,929
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- SN
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Senegal Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Senegal
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. ...
Senegalese travel
Yesterday was a long day. It started at the beach, in the pouring rain. The plan was to leave around 8 or 9 AM for Djiam Niajo to catch a car to Tambacounda. The total travel distance was not more than 500 km. No problem...one would think. The rain ...
lekki
Hello! Though no great adventures have taken place in the last two months(that immediately come to mind) , i thought it was about time to post an update to let everyone know im still plugging along here in Kolda. I think i'll use this update to ...
life as a trainee
... has been VERY excited to hear what ive learned each day, and its fun to try and explain. The people here in Senegal are wonderful! Everyone jokes around with one another all the time. One of my favorite experiences thus far was walking through town ...
Coming Home
... I have an amazing number of stories like this, some from my own experience and some from the experiences of my friends here in Senegal. It certainly hasn't been dull. I look forward to seeing and talking to all of you about my time here upon ...
GETTING READY FOR MADAGASCAR
Back at the Cafe Viavia. Fly out tomorrow to Johannesburg and then the next day to Antananarivo, Madagascar. Toured the Ile de Goree(Goree Island), and viewed one of the many West African ports that shipped thousands of Africans as branded ...
An awesome rage at the end of a dusty road
... to bribe the embassy. Funny that, it wasn't what we were doing at all, but let's just say when we finally entered Senegal, the customs officers contradicted the embassy and, well it was an 'interesting' border crossing. First stop in Senegal was St Louis. ...
address information
... well wishing and support. For the first three months my address will be: PCT Jennifer Neves Corps de la Paix B.P. 299 Thies, Senegal West Africa Once i move to my own place i'll send word about the new address. A couple tips for those ...
Back in Theis
... thin in two months, but for now he still laughs. From what I've been able to gather there are two cities in Senegal that need urban ag volunteers and that speak primarily Fulakunda. I will likely be located in either the city of Kolda or ...
Lost at Sea
Today I learned how to use a sextant in my physics for mariner's class. If I am ever lost at sea and have my sextant and a watch, I can figure out my latitude and longitude. A lot of my buddies on board said they were definitely going to get ...
Friday the 13th
The sea was rocky today. I think it knew that it was Friday the 13th. After global studies I had my physics for mariner's midterm. It wasn't too tough but I got all the true/ false questions to be false so I guess I will see if that was ...
Sub-Sahara
... baby from Nouakchott to the border crossing of Rosso, from where we hitched a ride on a ferry to cross the border (the Senegal River marks the boundary between Mauritania and Senegal) and then got a 'sept'-person taxi (only eight adults and one baby this ...
Dakar
More embassy business this morning (hopefully the last) with cote d ivore and Gabon. The Ivory coast border with Ghana is shut due to an attempted coup, it's seems both countries are blaming each other. We were able to meet with the ambassador for cote d ...
The Travelling Growth: A year on
So it has been a whole year since Shaun had placed a sharp razor to his manly face, aiming to be clean shaven for a his last day of work. This therefore announces the first anniversary of 'the travelling growth'. He has done it, 'the travelling growth' ...
Saare Fodde
Hello once again! Its time for the next installment of my adventures in Senegal. I have posted some pictures in this update, as well as in a previous one. Most of the pictures in this update are from a recent trip I took to Saare ('village') Fodde ...
Senegal and Gambia
... to lose all the weight you put on in the last couple of weeks! At our last update we were just preparing to enter Senegal through a notoriously bad border crossing and we mentioned 2 Frenchmen in the 2CV trying to get to Dakar, but being shipped off on ...
Trek for Cheese
Happy Holidays! I'll admit the 90 degree weather makes it difficult to feel the Christmas spirit, however ive found myself a substitute: the spirit of adventure. This brings me to the title of todays entry. As you may or may not know, cheese is not ...
Chez Dimbo
... and his lifestyle. The Rules of Chez Dimbo (and why I hate them): 1. One must speak English. I didn't come to Senegal to speak English, but I don't mind speaking English with Senegalese people when they want to practice. In this situation, I HATE ...
Toubabs to the Rescue
... way home, I made an ACTUAL rescue when Rachel and I decided to pick up the cutest white (toubab) kitten ever to be spotted in Senegal. We decided that it's a boy although it's a little hard to tell since he can't be more than two weeks old. We fed him ...
Etchwar
... with a bit of a stomach ache despite the Dramamine I had taken). We stopped for a night in Tambacounda, a small city in southeastern Senegal, where we stayed at a hotel that had a pool. A pool! It was glorious finally being able to swim in a body of ...
Bassari Village Stay
... and our assistant program director, Bouna, to meet my new Bassari family. The Bassari are an ethnic minority group who live in southeastern Senegal as well as parts of Guinea, and as I learned from my short stay in the village, the Bassari truly live off ...
Don't Worry, Be Happy
... cement walls, and imagined what my life would be like if I were to live in this place, in this wonderfully vibrant country of Senegal. I see myself waking up before the sun rises and while the moon is still high in the sky to go for a morning jog as ...
Sour milk sunday!
... drips constantly off your body because the humidity is so high, and temperatures are in the mid 90s. im in the far south of senegal, so my seasons are not the same as in the north. their rainy season starts later and ends sooner, by almost two months. ...
I've already replaced my family...
After an incredible lunch of rice and chicken, a brief orientation meeting, and another amazing meal of beef and vermicelli, some of the other students and I decided to hit the town and explore. We had no clue whatsoever where to tell our cab to take ...
Little Coast, Big Adventure
... house, my university, even my friends and family will have changed and will seem as foreign to me as this country of Senegal once did. Rooming with my friends Biz and Libby, we stayed up late every night talking amongst ourselves or with other students ...
Lac Rose to Fatick
Not much mileage today only 192km, we got our Gabon visas early and headed straight out of Dakar to lac rose ( that's French for rose lake haha) also the official finish line for the Paris Dakar Rally before it moved to south America! Tick the list! ...
Iwol
... my grandmother lived to an amazing age at 99! In addition to this quiet, calm old woman, we explored the largest baobab in Senegal located near the Bedick village of Iwol. One of the other students decided it would be a good idea to climb up but ...
Insomniac Reflections
... 3am as I laid in bed, waiting for the electricity to come back on so that I could stop sweating I can't sleep. I'm in Senegal and I can't sleep. I traveled back to the capital city of Dakar from the northern city of Saint Louis today - six hours on a ...