Senegal travel stories

Gandiol, Senegal

http://www.markspark.com/ The coast from Dakar to Mauritania is a remarkable stretch of powerful surf and wide bright sand. Paco and Lamin decided one day to take me 20kms south to a deserted isla...

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Colonial capital, Senegal

http://www.markspark.com/ Three hours through the heat of senegal crammed into the preferred mode of transport (a peugeot 504) lies the old french colonial capital of west africa. Crucial for expa...

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Getting comfortable, Senegal

http://www.markspark.com/ It took me a while to relax. You can actually defuse the street life (well, there is that one guy who spits at me still) by smiling and indulging them a little. I have re...

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Shipwrecked sailors

http://www.markspark.com/ The afternoon that I arrived on Goree, there were two navy gunboats moored at the dock with about a hundred officers-in-training who had come to the Island for a day-trip...

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Island life

http://www.markspark.com/ If you stay overnight, the invasion disappears, and island life reverts to itself. There's an amazing sense of community on this little island -- and all the inhabita...

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