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MALARIA KILLS

by DAO

PLEASE PREPARE! Malaria can sometimes be fatal and at best may make you regret that you survived. Most MalarIa medicines must be taken weeks BEFORE you come here. There are 4 different species of Malaria and humans can get them all from the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Illness and death from malaria are largely preventable - if you plan ahead.While you are here you need to use a repellent spray early in the morning and any periods of darkness, especially at night. The Bartender at my beach hotel had Malaria 3 times before he was 25. Do not take chances!I would suggest you buy repellent with 100% DEET.DEET

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The Harmattan

by traveldave

During the dry season (November through May), the Sahel region of northern Senegal becomes very dry and is subject to strong winds, which are called the harmattan. The harmattan causes dust storms which can severely affect those with breathing problems. In addition, the fine sand blown up by the winds finds its way into the eyes, nose, mouth, clothing, and onto camera and binocular lenses. Large sand storms can lift many tons of sand high into the sky. If blown high enough, the sand can enter the jet stream, which takes it around the world. Sand from the Sahara Desert has been found as far away as Greenland.The sand storms of the Sahel are due in part to overgrazing by goats and cattle. The animals eat most of the vegetation, which would normally anchor the soil. However, with almost no grass or other herbaceous plants, the harmattan which blows in from the Sahara Desert whips up huge...

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Nile Crocodiles

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Nile crocodiles are one of three species of crocodiles found in Africa. Their range is throughout tropical Africa south of the Sahara Desert, and they can be found in rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, and irrigation ditches.The Nile crocodile is the second-largest species of crocodile in the world, after the Australian salt water crocodile. They commonly grow up to 16 feet (five meters) in length, and larger specimens have been known to reach 20 feet (six meters). The crocodiles are bulky as well as long, and they commonly attain weights of 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms), and can even get up to 2,465 pounds (1,200 kilograms). Because of their large size, Nile crocodiles can kill animals as large as wildebeasts, zebras, and even humans.When I went on a boat trip along a reed-lined channel in Djoudj National Park, my group saw a couple of large Nile crocodiles. They are attracted by the park's...

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Bilharzia

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Bilharzia, also called schistosomiasis, is a common disease in Africa, including Senegal. It is caused by parasitic worms called schistosomes which infect bodies of fresh water throughout the tropics. About 200,000,000 to 300,000,000 people worldwide are infected with bilharzia.The schistosomes grow and develop inside fresh-water snails. Once they reach maturity, they leave the snails and float in water where they can live up to 48 hours. If the schistosomes come into contact with human skin, they enter the body though the skin. They can also enter through the mouth when contaminated water is drunk. The worms must pass between snails and humans to complete their life cycles. Once inside the human body, the parasites lay thousands of eggs, which are generally deposited in the lungs, liver, kidneys, intestines, and rarely the brain.Symptoms of bilharzia include chills, fever, a persistent...

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Local carftsmen trick tourist into bad deals

by nick723

africa has a great deal of local african arts, mainly wood carveings. ebeony is the artasin's choice, but poor carftman have tircked tourist into carved items finished in shoe polish instead of stain! also to an unexperinsed buyier just because it hads a dark stain color dosen't mean it's ebeony! here are some tips for buying ebeony carveings: lick or wet your'e fingure on the finish surface of the carveing, if the you get black grease on your'e fingure it's a fake! #2test ebeony dosen't float, it like the only wood that sinks! if thier is shallow water near by try testing it abilly to float. also thier are alot of local thiefs. beware of locals cliaming to be tour guides! i've seen young tourist taken for all thier money just for a walk down the street! tranportion on local buses is safe, but taxi's are wrose than any croke cab driver in manhattan! if your'e hotel has transportion...

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Casamance region

by Wafro

The political situation in the Casamance region could be sometimes unstable.In Goudomp the local people advised me not to go further, separatist where in fighting with the national army and police.I returned to Velingara and crossed the border, into the Gambia.

The Police

by Winksc

They will neither help nor hinder you. At every road block they extort bribes from motorists, they are always the big man in small towns.If you talk to adults they will usually tell you In hushed tones how bitter they feel about the corruption. Children on the other hand seem to spend hours hanging round the police post, they know exactly what they want to be when they grow up. It often made me angry to see this but you have to remember that even police are part of en economic system that relies on the government and that anyone working for the government will be well paid through corruption or other means but also obliged to provide help to a large extended family of poorer people.

Waiting for your turn for internet

by sachara

Everywhere in West Africa you can find internetcafes. The amount of cybercafes is growing very fast. On our way from Gambia to Mali we visited an internetcafe in Tambacounda.But be aware, you are not always able to make connection, because the facilities are not always reliable. First there can be no electricity or even worse .... the electricity will go down at the moment just before you want to send your e-mail. Sometimes the server is down for half a day or more.In Tambacounda we were lucky the internetcafes were open and there was electricity, but we had to wait very long. Internet is very popular in Africa, so almost every boy or girl has a yahoo account. If there are not many computers available, the waiting time can be very long. And be prepared, often the internet can be very slow in this area. Many times I didn't succeed to open my mailbox.

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Locusts at the Senegalese-Malinese border

by sachara

I never saw locusts in my life before, so I had no clear imagination how they should look like. I was very surprised, when I saw them at the first time in reality. It was at the Senegalese-Malinese border.The locuts had a bright red-orange colour and their size was about 8 CM. The most locusts we saw were flying in the air, looking like shrimps with wings. Luckily they were high enough, so they didn't fly against our bodies.Waiting for the borderposts in Kidira ( at the Senegalese side) and Diboli (at the Malinese side) there was a bus beside us. The roof of the bus was covered with locusts instead of the trees and plants around. We didn't know why. Anyway it gave us the chance to have our first close look at these giant insects. You can have also by enlarging the picture.

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Red clouds of locusts

by sachara

In 2004 when we visited West Africa, there was the worst invasion of locusts in more than a decade. The locusts, which can eat their own weight n food each day, invaded many of the countries we intended to visit during out transahara trip.The FAO warned that up to 50 percent of the cereal production might be lost after swarms of locusts devoured their way through the crops. Not only people in the area lost their food. Also the animals like camels, cows, sheep and goats were under threat. When we visited the area in November most of the swarms had moved to the north into the Sahara desert, far away from the crop growing areas in southern Mauritania, northern Senegal and Mali. Till we reached the Senegalese-Malinese border we didn't see any locust in Senegal.In Kidira, the Senegalese bordertown we saw the first swarms of locusts. From far they looked like reddish clouds high in the sky. I...

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