From 2005/02/23 to 2005/02/27
Senegal was visited in two phases :
--Ténéré-Dakar raid from the east to the west at Saly-Portugal,
--Back towards France via the north and Saint-Louis.
The border was crossed at Kidira. The customs formalities are very simplified for the French nationals. After a bad track which finished the Malian tour, the tar made its appearance as of the Senegalese border control. But the future showed that the state of roads is very unequal.
The presupposed objective was to visit mangroves and the peninsula of Palmarin
located at 20 km southward of Joal-Fadiout.
Mistakes of orientation in the search of a ferry took the worst
tracks in this area.
The convoy in the expectancy
Sokone
Grey sand beach
Peninsula of Palmarin
The truck in the shade
Joal-Fadiout
Fishing boats at the port
Joal-Fadiout
Child crossing a street
Joal-Fadiout
Residence at the hotel "Les Bougainvillées"
Saly-Portugal
The organized tour being finished, it was necessary to think of the return to France. The technical problems of the truck decided me not to stay late alone both in Senegal and in Mauritania. The plan of road envisaged one day to go at the border to Mauritania by visiting to the passage the town of Saint-Louis.
In green the road from Saly-Portugal to the Diama dam
Photo satellite
'Île Saint-Louis
Langue de Barbarie
The statue of Faidherbe
Governor of the colony
Information board
Construction of the Faidherbe Bridge by Eiffel
Initially intended to cross the Danube!
Faidherbe Bridge
Metal structure
Church of the 19th century
Street in l'île Saint-Louis
Hotel de "La Poste"
Frequented by the pilots of the Air-mail
Palace of the Governor
Street in l'île Saint-Louis
Colonial type with balustrades
like New Orleans
Saint-Louis is registered at the world inheritance of UNESCO
Modern building of "colonial style"
Beach
Langue de Barbarie
Fishing port
Langue de Barbarie
Crowd at the arrival of "the fishing"
in the early morning
Unloading of "fishing"
Potential buyers
Idlers
Beggars?
Presentation of "fishing"
The way out of Senegal was carried out with a few tens of kilometres in the north
from Saint-Louis to the Diama dam, then the entry in Mali on other side of the stopping.
The mileage travelled in Senegal was of 1,252 km in four days of road and a
few hundred kilometres of bad tracks.
