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Langue de Barbarie beach ship wreck is something very interesting to see. All around West FArican coast you have hundreds of old ships like this on the beach or on the coast forgotten. If you like this please visit my Cansado page in Mauritania for an incredible 50 ships on the coast.In St. Louis just pass to the Island and agina pass to the Langue , look on the beach maybe 800m away from the bridge level south.
View of Dakar from Goree Island is amazing and you will love each single moment of the view. Go to the highest point on the island and look Dakar on the horizont. Nice.If the weather is cloudy you will miss it though.
Parc National de Niokolo Koba is one of the few places in Senegal that belong to the UNESCO programme for World Heritage.The park is open during the dry season and this is the best time to visit.This Parc is a bit off the beaten path cos is a bit farway from big cities like Dakar (800km) and you need wither to get a long trip from public transport to Tambacounda then to Dar Salam, hen inside the Park etc etc...
We walk back to the village, we rest a bit or we play with the kids. Ringelo-rangelo *, a game with my wedding ring, is very much liked by them. Olleke-bolleke-riebesolleke **(another game with the hands) with one white thumb between a lots of little black little thumbs, is even granted more success.*Ringelo-rangelo, one person holds his ring in the hands closed, fingers streched out and moves it over the other participants hands. The purpose is to drop the ring on one of their hands without the others notice it. Then every one has to guess where the ring is.**Olleke-bolleke-riebesolleke, another game with hands. While singing the song Olleke-bolleke-riebesolleke, olleke-bolleke-knol, al wie handen en tanden laat zien is gezien en krijgt tien nepen en ene steek, t is gezeet.translated last part is wll how shows hands or teeth will be pinched or tickled or wathever.while you sing this...
Around 10 pm it seems to be getting late even for night-butterflies-on-duty. I have no other option then to go to bed, awake as an early chicken on its wooden stick in the morning.I can?t catch sleep and I can hear, how the animals come alive, once the people are sleeping.A dog is barking without pause, donkeys are noisy. I hear an unidentified sound just next to my bed.Because I can?t catch any sleep, I reflect all night about our last conversations of the day.That terrible road we passed, it keeps spooking around through my head.If that road were at least a little more accessible, wouldn?t that mean more prosperity for the village?I decide, that first thing in the morning ? in the afternoon a meeting with him is on schedule ? I will ask him about this dilemma: ?What would be your priority: electricity or a decent road??Me and thinking about roads and traffic, I guess I just can?t leave...
We see colourful dressed women, sitting very quiet and still, now and then weeping behind their shawls that they hold in front of their faces.Before dawn the men will bury the deceased.The women remain in the village.
The people. Little groups along the road. They sit next to each other or they walk around, all ages, I spot people and animals.Especially the women and the girls are eye catching: how beautiful they are, well maintained from top till toe, proud and gracious, colourful dresses accentuating their nice female shapes.The informal market is profitable: hardboard houses along the road leave us wondering if these are houses of commerce or homes to live in.Sometimes we drive miles without seeing a living soul, and then repeatedly, we will drive through little villages. Each time the same ingredients: piles of melons en citrus fruits, kids seated upon piles of disposed tires, men working at car wretches. Wretches of cars. Disposed by Europe they are resusciliated to live a second life in Africa. ?Garage Vanderkelen? reads a sign on one of them in front of us, when the dark thick smoke has...
Saturday evening, 16th November 2002, just before midnightSo this is it! The first impressions every one talks about: my initiation; the big confrontation; the ever-repeated question: if you experienced a cultural shock?While I am writing this, the hotel room is neat, the food I had a minute ago was terrific, and the service extremely friendly. The contrast between this situation and what I have witnessed along the 750 km long trip from Dakar to Kolda was enormous!I was left amazed and flabbergasted about how a human?s life can differ along his habitat on this little earth.At Dakar I still felt the sensation of "home": the well-known picture of traffic jam; too long shuffling in endless queues of air polluting cars. At the edge of the city, the litter and garbage taking over, no disposal-burning ovens or any coordinated, regulated litter areas. Only organized disposal collection. The...
Monday 18th November 2002.Isabelle and me are pulling water up from the well and with the plastic cans we head towards our bathroom: a fenced place in open air with an opening in front.After washing ourselves we walk outside.At a little bench in the first room of our hut, several kids are sitting neatly next to each other.They are ready to go to school. School starts at 8 am and is meant for kids from 8 years on.The younger kids stay at home in the village, playing, doing nothing or observe the grown ups.Here time is granted to grow up. The same pace goes for aging.Around 8:30 am we are offered breakfast: a baguette and Nescafe powder, milk powder and sugar in separate packages. Dirk gets the melon he bought yesterday on our way to Bantancountou and Isabelle brings the mandarins.The breakfast tastes delicious
After the visit to the cows, a visit to the school is on the schedule.The classrooms are full; on the sandy playground about 30 young students are sitting neatly on a row. What a discipline, I am thinking. The chief gives a hint that discipline might come with lesser soft means if needed.Dirk is taking pictures of the bunch of kids and is welcomed as if he is the big sorcerer.
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Q: how to???? travel agent? Money is an issue..but as my wife and I do not have unlimited time nor strength... direct travel is the...
A: hi, can the flight back with Air France that take 20 hours plus include decent stopovers to go sightsee the places you could stop at?
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