The buses, taxis and tro-tros are like the streets old and unreliable.
Have fun and good luck.
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 |  on June 26, 2004 |
When you’re traveling in Senegal and you’ll use the public transport, you’ll have to be very patient. You’ll also need a bit of luck to arrive at your destination in time, without any car problems or accidents. The buses, taxis and tro-tros are like the streets old and unreliable. Have fun and good luck. |
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| Tambacounda, horse carts | | |
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 |  on January 22, 2005 |
At the main roads and in the centre of Tambacounda we saw a lot of horse carts, like we did see in the neighbouring countries during our transsahara trip, like Mali and Mauritania. 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. |
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| Niokolo Koba Park, gamedrive by own 4 WD | | |
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| on January 22, 2005 |
When you visit the Niokolo Koba Park with your own vehicle and you have a 4WD, you can make easily the gamedrives with your own car. So we did. Only the track between the park entrance and Hotel de Simenti is suitable for a normal car. 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. |
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 |  on October 31, 2004 |
Inside cities you have an excelent bus system. You can go everywhere inside towns and cities with this kind of buses you can see on the picture. This should be an easy way for shorter journeys and youl have a great opportunity to see local people interacting. For bigger trips you should choose bush taxi or taxi brousse. You pay nothing for this buses, dont worry about it. |
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| Travelling to Casamance, take a plane to Gambia | | |
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| on January 22, 2005 |
It's easy to visit the northern part of the Casamance by taking a plane to the Gambia. There are many direct and cheap charterflights to Banjul in the Gambia, coming from Europe. The Yundum airport is 30 KM south of Banjul. From Yundum airport you can take a bushtaxi to the Gambian- Senegalese border further south. If you will stay in one of the campements in Kafountine and Abene, they can also arrange transport for you from Yundum airport in the Gambia. |
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| Boat Dakar-Goree Island | | |
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| on October 31, 2004 |
This is the boat that takes you from the port of Dakar to the UNESCO Island of Goree. The ticket costed in 2004 5,000.00 XOF (CFA) Communauté Financière Africaine Francs=7.62245Euro . There are boats living every 30 minutes to a 20minutes journey to the Island. |
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| Train Dakar-Bamako (Senegal-Mali) | | |
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| on October 31, 2004 |
There is a very well known and legendary train in West Africa, it is called the Dakar-Bamako train or the Eastern Ocean-Niger service via Thies, Diourbel, Tambacounda and Kidira until it reaches the capital of Mali, Bamako. 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). |
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| Transport in Niokolo Koba | | |
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| on October 31, 2004 |
Inside the National Park you can pay for excursions on this big truck that will take you al the parts of the park. Many areas inside Niokolo Koba are impossible to cross without 4WD car or big truck like this that will carry you on the back part. |
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| Bush taxis and buses in Senegal | | |
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| on October 31, 2004 |
Most public trasnport in Senegal is by bush taxi or taxi brousse in french. You have different veicules making themselves as buses or little buses. They are: Peugeot 504, a van with 7 seats; normal cars usually white like old mercedes minibus or Saviem; a camion (truck like the one on the picture) that carry dozens of people on the back cargo part. You will travel faster and more confortable in the Peugeot 504. Minibuses are better for shorter journeys and give you the change of getting to know the people. You will get to know people on longer journeys. 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. |
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| Boats and rivers | | |
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| on October 31, 2004 |
In the north part of the country you have the big Senegal river which will have to be passed thru if you want to get to little villages and towns on the other side. You pay around 500CFA or 1000CFA to pass yourself or a car on these boats. The majority of these boats are human force powered and you should participate on the ritual, BE CAREFUL with you hands not to cut yourself on the iron wire that holds the boat. You can get a bad cut on your hand pulling the boat. You should grab the wire pull and get it loose, grab it pull loose, not sliding your hand on it! rmember this as it will make you free from cuts like my friend did, he got a huge cut on his hand. West Africa is not the place for you to cut yourself in a place where maybe other people also cut themselves right? |
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