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Image:Somone-1.jpg | Image:Somone-1.jpg|Somone Beach, in front of Africa 6 | ||
Image:Africa6-beach.jpg | Image:Africa6-beach.jpg|Somone Beach, view from Africa 6 | ||
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=== Ndangane / [https://wikitravel.org/en/Mar_Lodj Mar Lodj] (Jan 22-24) === | === 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." | "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 | * 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. | |||