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=== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor%C3%A9e Île de Gorée] (Jan 3-7) === | === [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor%C3%A9e Île de Gorée] (Jan 3-7) === | ||
This tiny island has a lot of elements from Shela village (Lamu island, Kenya, Hacker Beach Episode 2). It's located just in front of Dakar city, to the East. There's a ferry (going every hour until late night), which will take you to Gorée within 20-30 minutes, for 5200 CFA | This tiny island has a lot of elements from Shela village (Lamu island, Kenya, Hacker Beach Episode 2). It's located just in front of Dakar city, to the East. There's a ferry (going every hour until late night), which will take you to Gorée within 20-30 minutes, for 5200 CFA. The terminal is located next to the train station, and every taxi driver should know it. | ||
* [https://www.visiting-africa.com/africa/senegal/ile-de-goree-ferry-schedule Ferry schedule] (just show up whenever, they're on African time anyway) | * [https://www.visiting-africa.com/africa/senegal/ile-de-goree-ferry-schedule Ferry schedule] (just show up whenever, they're on African time anyway) | ||
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=== La Somone (Jan 11- | === La Somone (Jan 11-18) === | ||
... | La Somone is a small town North of Saly/Mbour. It is situated right next to a river delta on the Southern end of the nature reserve of Popenguine. It offers a veriety of shops and restaurants, and plenty of accommodation options. | ||
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Image:Somone-1.jpg|Somone Beach, in front of Africa 6 | |||
Image:Africa6-beach.jpg|Somone Beach, view from Africa 6 | |||
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=== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nianing Nianing] (Jan 18-22) === | |||
Nianing is a fishing village South of Mbour. We found a great place on the Beach called Bentenier, where literally everything is an object of art. (Remember Shela Fort? That!). A single room is 15K CFA/night. The entire beach in front of the village center is almost like an industrial fish processing facility, so if you want to find a place to hang out by the ocean, go a bit North or South of it. | |||
=== Ndangane / [https://wikitravel.org/en/Mar_Lodj Mar Lodj] (Jan 22-24) === | |||
"Siné-Saloum Delta's Ndangane is a minor traveller centre along the coast from where you can take a pirogue to almost any point in the delta. There isn't much to the town itself, but it makes an easy-going base for delta adventures." | |||
* https://www.lonelyplanet.com/senegal/ndangane-mar-lodj | |||
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Image:DSC04285.jpg|Going fishing | |||
Image:DSC04287.jpg|Baobab tree | |||
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Image:DSC04293.jpg|Sunset at La Nouvelle Vague | |||
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Image:DSC04301.jpg|La Nouvelle Vague, Bungalow guesthouse on Mar Lodj | |||
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Image:26287683 1934328746595853 301781642215686144 n.jpg|Tailor, creating a custom guitar bag | |||
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=== Banjul (The Gambia, Jan 24-31) === | |||
Welcome to crazytown. | |||
== Prospective stops == | == Prospective stops == | ||
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This one should come as no surprise, but as part of the francophone world, the use of English language is rather limited in Sénégal. Learn at least some basic phrases in French (please, thank you, hello, goodbye, etc.), and use them liberally. [https://www.duolingo.com/ Duolingo] has beginner lessons for lots of languages and is completely free to use. | This one should come as no surprise, but as part of the francophone world, the use of English language is rather limited in Sénégal. Learn at least some basic phrases in French (please, thank you, hello, goodbye, etc.), and use them liberally. [https://www.duolingo.com/ Duolingo] has beginner lessons for lots of languages and is completely free to use. | ||
Even better than French however is learning some phrases in the actual local language: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolof_language Wolof]. There are some minorities speaking yet other languages, like e.g. Serer, but Wolof seems to be the the local lingua franca of Senegal. | |||