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 Car problems near Kaolack. by Wafro
The buses, taxis and tro-tros are like the streets old and unreliable.
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 Tambacounda by sachara
The horse carts in Tambacounda were colourfully painted and some had mottos written on it. We saw, that the horse carts were used for transport of all kind of materials, but also for transporting whole families.
And if you like to go to another part of the town and don't like to walk, there are also a lot of horse cart taxis available. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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 gamedrive by own car by sachara
We did the gamedrives with our own 4WDS, accompanied by a guide of the park. It was allowed that some of us climbed up the roof of the car to have a better view.
If you don't have a 4WD yourself, you can arrange gamedirves at the Hotel de Simenti. While we did our gamedrives the small open truck of the Simenti hotel was the only other vehicle we saw. Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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 senegal by johnsakura
For bigger trips you should choose bush taxi or taxi brousse.
You pay nothing for this buses, dont worry about it. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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 Train Dakar-Bamako
(Senegal-Mali) by johnsakura
Trains from Bamako leave 10am Wed and Sat. The journey can take 36hours up to 70h... Fares to Dakar from Bamako are about 25,000CFA 2nd class. Once you're on the train you can upgrade your ticket to have a sleeping vagon. If you ask you'llmaybe have a student discount (in case you're a student). Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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 senegal by johnsakura
Autogares or gares routieres are well organized and you cant miss the bus no way. any way you should always ask to many different people as the normal senegalese person wil not tell you he doesnt know, prefereing giving you the wrong direction.
Big Buses 40 sits operate between bigger cities but they are hard to et. Dakar has great bus system.
From the norther border with Rosso you have taxis to Saint Louis. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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 senegal by johnsakuraLeave a Comment Theme: Ship/Boat
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 senegal by johnsakura
The Carnet de Passages en Douane is an internationally recognised customs document that, if accepted in a country, entitles the holder to temporarily import a vehicle without the need to pay the appropriate customs duties and taxes. A Carnet is required for most transcontinental journeys and you must obtained one in advance of the journey.
this is a document that prevent people of selling their older cars in poor countries where after a few years what they only have on their roads are pices of junk cars making roads even more dangerous. Senegal, since 2001 has a law that everycar older than 4 years will need this document that veen embassies around the world dont know it actually exists, so make sure you have it if you have a car older than 4 years. unless you want to stay on the border. theres another solution about this which consists on paying for poice escort border to border, like senagal-gambia, senegal-mali, senegal-guine, for this you have to pay around 450euros for each veicule to pass and you have 2 days to pass the country with a police on your back the whole way.
I got myself stuck in Diamba border in December 2003 with a Nissan Patrol 4WD and had to come back... I went again with a 4 year old Opel Corsa which already passed without a problem. Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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 senegal mali by johnsakura
Again if you're coming with a car, make sure you have a less then 4 years old car or the carnet de passage.
The Carnet de Passages en Douane is an internationally recognised customs document that, if accepted in a country, entitles the holder to temporarily import a vehicle without the need to pay the appropriate customs duties and taxes. A Carnet is required for most transcontinental journeys and you must obtained one in advance of the journey. Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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