For the trip to Dakar, we decided to test out the local bus service. When we arrived at the garage, the bus was already half-full & so we were cautiously optimistic that it wouldn't take that long for it to fill up. Well after months in Africa, one can still make naive mistakes! But 3 hours of waiting later, we were off, and many stops & 5 hours after that, the 260km journey was completed!
In Dakar, we were lucky enough to spend most of our time in the affluent, expat beach side suburb of Les Almadies. Here is the apartment we stayed in & the views from it:
Another little African luxury we got to experience was going to a real concert. The artist was Maurice Kirya from Uganda, he had a beautiful voice, it was nice just to hear some live music again. Some of his songs, storytelling & audience interaction were a bit cheesy, but coming from an African, it always sounds so much more lyrical & sincere:
Although it is a lot less overt than in Morocco or Mauritania, about 90% of the Senegalese population is Muslim:
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