Tambacounda Travel Guide

 johnsakura Says:  Mr Souto Toure, he received me and my friends. very nice man, he was very polite indeed. I organized an expedition called Evora-Tambacounda 2004 which would connect portugal to mauritania and senegal, and he received us. We gave him lots of goods from our city world... 

 johnsakura Says:  you can see how do the local senegalese shops look like. you have fancy supermarjkets on some of the major petrol stations with expensive european stuff (low quality one of course), but this place you get the real thing! 

 johnsakura Says:  Here passes the big train from Dakar that goes to Mali, bamako city. this big train goes really slowly and can take up to 72 hours but only if you're lucky of course 

 johnsakura Says:  my car was one of the countries highlight for people. they just loved them and in everycity i had at least 20 people asking me if i wanted to sell it...haha a small german opel corsa, very nice car indeed. green colour even better. in mauritania someone offered me 5000euros... 

 johnsakura Says:  you can get really cheap mangoes and papaya's bananas also. mangoes from ehre have agreat taste. very nice perfumed taste. a must. fruit is great. dont forget to wash it reall well even before you take the skin out! you can get maybe 1 us dollar a kilo of magoes, maybe... 

 johnsakura Says:  things written on the wall of a house. 

 johnsakura Says:  Islam is the main religion in Senegal like thru out all other countries in West Africa. 

 johnsakura Says:  goats are free on the streets, everywhere you go in west africa starting in mauritania, you have goats on the streets. amazing..hehehethey are very curious and always try to eat your jeans or t-shirt. 

 johnsakura Says:  I stoped near the Tambacounda sign to make some pics and I saw this young boys comming on a donkey, i asked trhem if they wanted to make some pics with us and they said ok. we gave them some caps. 

 johnsakura Says:  if somehow you know what does a Dibiterie means, please email me. i dont want to go to the diccionary now. local building in Tambacounda look like this. 

 johnsakura Says:  I love this bench. very nice decor on a street which is not very interesting. This gives a bit of rithym to the street. 

 johnsakura Says:  thigs seem to be even more brown when you start to get down south in africa. people are brown of course, the dirt on the floor is brown, houses are brown, everything is made within this colour, yeloow, brown, ocre etc. Amazing contrast with the blue sky and some trees. 

 johnsakura Says:  This is the main road that takes you from Mali border city Kindira to Tamabcounda. This is actually the best road I've ever made in Senegal. Almost just a dozen of holes not comparing to other roads along the rest of the country. This was the first road I saw inside... 

 johnsakura Says:  this is a very interesting photo of course. just a fence of someone's yard. nothing much but you can see a bit more of the way people live and how does the city looks like. this is located on the road that come from Mali border Kindira. 

 johnsakura Says:  This seems to be one of the normal things to do here in Tambacounda. When theres nothing much to do, people just go and seet along the road down a tree and chill with their friends.