Dakar Villas - Reviews and Rates

I arrived in Dakar after 12ish hours of flying/airport time around 2am on Sunday night/ Monday morning, with hardly any prior knowledge of Dakar or Senegal and no idea what to do when I got here. When my backpack finally came out through the baggage claim, its outside pockets had been completely emptied-- as in all the items in them were stolen-...

Greetings from Mauritania!   I am back from Dakar, am well rested and in high spirits.    It was definitely a good trip, but all the traveling has left me a bit weary.  It is good to be back to Awainatt.  I will just start at the beginning and yes, it will be censored...   I began by making stops in Aioun and Kiffa, visiting other PCVs and break...

9/2 i had a good friday evening out . Having ARRIVED at the office at 0730 in the morining - i left at 2010 at night .... It has been a v demanding week - pretty much days like that each day - followed by home at night to grab a bite and do more emails/rpts, then bed. Anyway last night - Peter (one of my two Reg Prog Mngrs - Raphael being the ot...

As a nice weekend break from my week of training in our Senegal office, I got the chance to visit Goree Island. Goree Island, also known as House of Slaves, used to be a be a slave island during European colonization from 1536 to 1815 (almost 300 years!). This was a tremendously humbling and enlightening experience.

Before I begin to recount my downtown scavenger hunt adventures and tales from the Village des Arts, I feel like I need to include a little Wolof lesson. I have now had three Wolof classes, and as everyone you meet on the street wants to stop to talk and teach you new words, it's very easy to find ways to keep up with learning a unique African d...