A long day’s journey brought me from Dakar to Serrekunda in the Gambia. First I took yet another sept-place to Karang, the last Senegalese town before the border. This took most of the day due to rough road conditions. After about an hour changing currency and buying a SIM card for my phone, another taxi took […]
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I arrived on Senegal’s shores aboard a canoe that ferried me the short distance across the river from Mauritania. A horse and cart brought me the short distance to the waiting cars bound for Saint Louis. Like most road journeys in Senegal, I would be traveling by sept-place (French for “seven places”). These decrepit Peugeot station […]
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