Country Info
- Dakar
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 10,284,929
- Population
- SN
- Country Code
Dakar Slideshow
Dakar
Travel Blogs from Dakar, Senegal
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 ...
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 ...
Bel Air Beach
I had strange dreams last night! I did however have a good, long sleep. I woke up to the sight of crabs running around on the beach. There are also some magnificent birds nesting and flying around the tress on the beach. Firstly, there are the larger ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mosquito Net
Yay I have a mosquito net! No more waking up in the middle of the night to my face being an all you can eat buffet for every mosquito in Africa. Okay well its not that bad but seriously it is so hot here at night that we sleep with the door open and of ...
Dakar and fond farewells
... you could imagine (we were eating lunch and someone tried to sell me and Lucy a bird!!). I loved seeing another side of Senegal and enjoyed being a tourist for the weekend as well. Visited the Ile de Gorée, a tiny island about 4km on a ...
First leg of the 17 hour flight is over..
... he will see to it. As we reflect on this miracle, we do the happy dance in our seats as we decent into Dakar, Africa for a quick refuel. We switch seats with our kids and get ready for breakfast and hopefully sleep on the second leg of ...
Arrival in Senegal ...
Well arrived in Dakar ... after 5h30 of flight ... it's like taking the bus ... to realise that the airport of this capital is quite as big as the one in Deurne-Antwerp ... with the only difference that in Antwerp, the don't lose power every 10 minutes ...
St. Louis - Dakar
... . Mit den verfallenden Kolonialbauten und den Pferde- und Eselskarren, die hier immer noch üblich sind,hat der auf einer Insel im Senegal River liegende alte Teil von St. Louis noch immer einen Anklang an die Kolonialzeit. Die Brücke, über die man die ...
& now the ends come & I must face my final curtain
Well here it is - my final blog of this trip {unless something really exciting happens in the next 2 days!!!!!!!!!!} We got into Dakar last night and it is much like any other big African city like Douala or Accra. Last night I had the room to myself ...