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Route de L'OCI- Almadies, Dakar, Senegal
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Planning to visit Dakar in early February on business. Just a few questions:
1. Any good hotel near the 'Sandaga' market area? An international chain hotel would be better.
2. Is Dakar a safe place? I'd travelled to East Africa (Kenya & Tanzania) last year and found that they were not very safe and we were adviced to be back in the hotel before dark.
3. What's the weather gonna be like in Feb?
Any help will be greatly apprecaited.
Thanks.
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Dakar is a safe place, you can find An international chain hotel and it will be not far to SANDAGA.In this time It is a bit cold at night and hot day with temperatures up to 35 degrees...
If you have any other questions let me know.
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Am visiting Dakar in March for the OCI meeting. I will be staying for 10 days. Any idea of car rental and any place of stay like apartment that I can rent for short lease?
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Without that history this island would probably be a rich persons resort.
Places like Dakar you will love or hate. It’s the excitant face of dark continent, a capital, with a kind of cosmopolitan atmosphere, a good weather, bars and night life and a mixture of African, colonial and modern styles. This city represents the futures town in Africa. By other side it’s a big and full city, dirty, chaotic, with lots of noise, crowds and handicapped people… After a few days in Senegal, you will think that a capital like Dakar matches.
What to say? You can’t avoid. You have to go and live the moment. I was in Dakar!
As I am looking out from the patio of the conference, I actually make myself turn off all the sound, people and just concentrate on how I am in Dakar, Senegal!!! The skyline looked like something that came out of a van gogh painting with birds that seem regal. The breeze coming from the sea cools things down softly as you are actually able to breathe. This time of day is one of the best. The air is cleaner, the smells are more vibrant and the sky looks like it was painted for you! Just so you would never forget it.
Sorry... cannot remember what this is. Took the pic from inside a bus on the way to a conference.
what a spectacle has it been escorting one of my best women school-friends to Senegal, where she did her 2nd part of marriage with her Senegalesian husband. all the girls & women of our group let prepare very colourful clothes for the ceremony.
we took rich meals of rice & meat and music was all around us.
before and after we also visited the beach, a little outside from Dakar, and I must admit that Fanta is much more refreshing there (-: - try it out!!
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