Saint-Louis Travel Blogs

Once again, I'm going to take a quick trip through time and add a blog entry from my 2004 visit to Saint-Louis... SAINT-LOUIS 2004 It was nearly midnight with I arrived in St Louis--but the streets were alive with activity.  It was an unforgettable thrill the feeling of having arrived in the…

Travel photos of my visit to Senegal, and of two sites in particular: the Island of Goree and Saint-Louis

Nanga Def. - Mangi fi. That's the form of greeting in Wolof (at least the guide of the ASAN told me that, but I don't know how to write it). About 80% of the Senegalese master this language. Most of the people speak French as well - English is rather rarely.Compared to our accomodation in Ndoum the…

Hola, quelle journée... Ca a commencé à l'aurore avec un taxi-brousse vers la frontière, sans grand problème, sauf une crevaison qui a pris 5 minutes à réparer.  A la frontière, le bordel, où il y a évidement un "gentil" sénégalais qui m'offre ses services, que je p…

Gap year adventures!

We wake up to meet on the roof of the hotel to get assigned to our drop-off locations. Similar to our introduction to downtown Dakar. Of course, like getting picked last for gym class, the uneven number of students means that I get to awkwardly add my name to a group of people that already agreed t…