Dakar

En blogg fra en 5 ukers tur med Rosa Bussarna fra Senegal gjennom Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana og Togo til Benin; november til desember 2010. Jeg regner ikke med å få anledning til å oppdatere bloggen så veldig ofte, men jeg skal gjøre et hederlig ...

From Central America with Global Brigades to Democratic Republic of Congo with International Medical Corps, back Haiti with IMC, through South America and off to SE Asia...

After a dusty journey from Banjul to Saly in Senegal last night - we have now arrived in Dakar.  The expressway into the city made life a little easier however the road through Rufisque and Tiaroye is still very congested. We stayed in ...

... 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 ...

... , one of the darkest periods of mankind flourished for over three hundred years. We have now reached warmer climates as we sailed into Dakar, the morning foretold of a warm day in the low 80 degrees with high humidity. No rain clouds, but we felt a ...

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 woman behind the counter couldn’t quite work out why I kept asking her for lots of plastic cutlery! The flight to Dakar was also uneventful; sleeping, watching Friends in French and playing chess were on the agenda there. We arrived in Dakar to ...

... little Nabou, Imam and Bilal). I want to especially thank Marie and Carole for hosting me during these weeks spent in Dakar.   I thought of pursuing the trip with Djibril and Angelica, but this couldn't happen. Then I decided to further look for ...