Country Info
- Dakar
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 10,284,929
- Population
- SN
- Country Code
Dakar Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dakar, Senegal
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 ...
Big surf and an injured pelican
16th December Drove to just outside Dakar, the capital. The surf boomed into the bay. The campsite has a 'tame' rescued pelican with a broken wing. Camped. 17th December We got visas for Sierra Leone. Camped. 18th December Awoke with a bad ...
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. ...
Walk along the Coast
After lunch we took a walk along the Atlantic Coast, very scenic, couldn't take enough pictures. The beach was about 50 feet down a cliff. The girls climbed down and walked out along a jetty. I stayed up top and ...
Back to Dakar
After a final dinner aboard the Pegasus we set sail for Dakar, where we disembarked this morning. From the port we headed to the famed pink lake outside the city. There we learned how the lake is mined for salt and visited a Fulani village. While there, ...
I have arrived!
Salaamaalekum! (Peace be with you, a common greeting) I have arrived in Senegal and am currently at the Suffolk University Dakar Campus (yes, the Suffolk in Boston, but it's a campus they built that draws students from Senegal and West Africa, not ...
Update #3
Hello again!!! I had sometime left over on my card so I figured I'd share another amusing story since there weren't as many in my last email. While my sister and I were at Kayar (the fishing village) we of course stood out. So we were ...
au senegal enfin
allo gang de vous autres!! Desole si je me suis fait attendre avant de donner des nouvelles; il y avait des problemes d Internet a Dakar a mon arrivee donc jai du attendre d etre a pikine pour vous ecrire. Pikine est une banlieue de dakar cest cool ...
Another Flat?!
Dear Cruel Cruel World, I am currently en route to Thies where all the volunteers of Senegal have a two day conference, referred to as All Vol (All Volunteers). The night bus is not exactly the preferred mode of transportation (also not exactly forbidden, ...
When the Vacation is Over
Salaam Malekum. Well, after spending a year and a half working and living in Dakar, I am finally starting my blog :)...and preparing to return to the U.S. So welcome to my travelblog which will not only feature my attempts to breath in and ...
The 4 year old Racist in my Preschool Class
A 4 year old's proof that we need to work harder to eliminate racism Today, as I asked my 19, 4-year old preschool children to make a line in pairs of two, before entering class, I decided myself to choose their partners, mixing students who don’t ...
There they go…getting all Senegalese on me..
I cannot contain my laugh, all too often I find myself in a situation where the people I am with 'get all Senegalese on me'. It can happen anywhere, for example, a meeting at work. Last Friday we met with a group of French people who are creating a ...
Caroline & Nick's week together
I have had an absolutely wonderful week with Nick in Senegal even though he has been working hard for much of it. The first thing to note is that there has not been a single cloud in the sky for the whole week- just brilliant blue skies, sunshine and ...
Exploring Dakar
... older man directing the others as to who could follow us and who should get lost. At one point I decided to buy a t-shirt with Senegal flag on it. We stopped at a shop and the vendor wanted 10,000 CFA which is about $20. Amber said ...
The Orphanage
I finally got some sleep...yay!! I slept from about 11:00 pm here to 11:30 am here. It was nice to get that much sleep. I needed it for sure. I got up and took a shower and called Mom to figure out a taxi for me to get to her school. I had no money, ...
Retour à Dakar, Gorée et Lompoul-sur-mer
... si mal. Chez les pères maristes, nous avons simplement pris le temps de mettre nos maillots pour ensuite partir à la plage de Dakar. C’était beau! Les vagues y étaient cependant plutôt fortes. Je me suis beaucoup baignée, et ai mouillé mes ...
Because Only Pretty Girls Like You Come To Dakar!
... to take something home that was Senegalese so I can look at it in say 10years time and say oh yes I got that from Senegal... but I keep forgetting that Gambia and Senegal are so similar that most things are the same – including the tacky souvenirs! ...
The Accidental American... Somewhere in Africa
... there's nothing like that here. By some quirk of fate, or some butterfly that happened to flutter by, I find myself in Dakar, Senegal. This is how most of life works really, isn't it? Is natural evolution really anything other than a ...
sidenote:
Today I had an epiphany, a reality check, or a revelation, whatever you want to call it. I was thinking about my life, what I am doing in Africa and WHY and HOW I got here. I understand this experience will change me, and I came into this accepting that ...
Dakar
... sie erst gegen 7 wieder eingetroffen sind. Ich habe mir am Nachmittag mit Talbot die Ile de Goree angesehen, eine kleine Insel vor Dakar deren traurige Berühmtheit auf ihre Rolle im Sklavenhandel zurück geht. Heute ist es ein idyllischer Ort mit bunt ...
Hello Madam Secretary!
I must say this week has been one of the most interesting that we have had thus far. It has been filled with both highs and lows, and everything in between.We started out the week with a Counterpart Workshop in order to prepare both ourselves and our ...
Spiritual Guide
... religion and in this particular case Islam. Unfortunately, Islamic extremism has tainted the vision that many have of religion. In Senegal, and more specifically Sufism, God is love. This love for God is practiced in the way that you interact with ...