After spending a wonderful morning at Lac Rose, we headed south to take the A1 highway again to Thies, in the opposite direction to Dakar. Our final goal was to reach the north, to the Saint Louis area. Thies, in my opinion, has no charm at all. If it weren’t for the fact that it was lunchtime, I don’t think we would have spent a minute there. What I...
I arrived in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, with a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt. I was picked up from Hosea Kutako airport and drove to “Zebra Kalahari Lodge“. The road is wonderful. It is a relatively comfortable and very wide unpaved track. The environment is flat and dry. One of the first things that caught my attention was the nests of...
I leave Dakar, after breakfast, towards Lac Rose. Slowly, I go with the van on the A1 until a detour that leads, first to Niaga and then to one of the most important tourist attractions in the country: Lac Rose. It takes me 1:15h to travel more than 40 km and finally I arrive at Chez Salim Lac Rose. It is a hotel that is next to the lake and is a departure point for...
I am happy to start Senegal‘s publications with the Ile de Gorée. I am aware that it is not what I liked most about the country and I also know that it is one of the most tourist spots; but this little island made me feel many things. Ile de Gorée was my first contact with what they call “black Africa”. Before, I had only been to Morocco and a town...
