Senegal – A Selection Of 27 Pictures

By Gilles & Heidi on 1. May 2004 in Africa – Photos, Photo Galleries, Senegal, Senegal – Photos

Lady patiently waiting for the bus to leave the Gare Routiere in Cap Skiring

We visited twice Senegal: once we focused on Dakar and La Casamance down south (April 2002), the second trip we discovered Saint Louis and the north of the country (April 2004)… Those are the first pictures we shot with a digital camera!

: Street life on the island of Gorée: two women with their traditional colorful & beautiful Boubous

: On the Casamance river, giving a lift to a woman with her little daughter …

: Driving partly on the embankment is the Senegalese way of avoiding potholed roads!

: Waiting for a Taxis Brousse at the Gare Routiere in Serecunda … Our question: “When does the next taxis come or leave?”, was answered with “We do not know, you have to wait!”. Heidi kept cool, Gilles maybe a little less!

: illes after 2 days in a Taxis Brousse … A little bit dusty, isn´t he?

: In the Gare Routiere of Ziguinchor, young Talibés take a rest from collecting donations and play the “Baby Foot”. At every Gare Routiere in Senegal, you have more people hanging out, selling or looking for odd jobs than people travelling

: After having been bumped from our flight back to Dakar, we took a Taxi Brousse to Ziguinchor the next morning with 2 other people who had suffered the same fate. Here we encontered another obstacle: the army would not open the bridge until 08:00 am due to rebel activities …

: Fishers painting one of the traditional pyrogues … Next to it a pile of oyster shelves mixed into concrete for building houses

: Visiting a Marabou … You go there when you are sick, when you look for advice, for a wife / housband, …

: Grinding cereal

: Under the Palmeraie of the Hotel La Paillotte, on the beach. We negotiated the right to use their deck chairs if we had lunch there. Good deal!

: Pont Faidherbe crossing the Senegal River, this bridge from colonial times connects the old town St. Louis on the Langue de Barbarie with the mainland.

: Streets of St. Louis … Where else would you see a banged up Renault 18 or Peugeot 505?

: The “Anciens” sitting in the shade and watching life go by …

: A young Talibé …

: Riding our bikes back to our hotel on the Langue de Barbarie. The children are always enthousiastic about being photographed, and almost always posing as a football team, their biggest dream …