Hammam Turkish Spa Dc

Dakar is the southernmost point of our trip dar. We have now turned his Land Rover, we dug out from Dakar and are back in St. Louis in northern Senegal. After nearly six weeks, we find that we, the previous course of the journey has quite surprised: As we saw originally Morocco and Mauritania only as a transit country and Senegal as the actual (very nice, interesting) goal, it turns out that especially Mauritania much more interesting than expected. With the fantastic desert landscape, the great loneliness of empty sand seas and the nomads Zeltdoerfern of Mauritania offers a lot. Also you feel a certain optimism in the country to move forward the effort (largely fair elections, 20% quota for women in parliament, development of press ...). Morocco also has very pleasantly surprised, especially the enormous economic progress that took place in the last few years there. Other hand, remains an ambiguous impression of Senegal. The once excellent infrastructure of the French (rail, road) has expired and unkempt. The population radiates more lethargy. Dirt and garbage in the villages are much worse than in northern countries, although it is still doing better than the example of Mauritania. But Senegal has undoubtedly impressive landscapes, culinary delights of fish and a lot of West African culture. Not to be forgotten is also the wesenlich more liberal and tolerant treatment of religious rules.

We have decided to spend on the way back some time in Mauritania and / or Morocco, as the Sahara desert for us absolutely the most fascinating part of the trip so far was.

Here are two Bilder, die die senegalesische Widersprüchlichkeit zeigen. Einmal ein Eindruck vom Verkehrschaos in Dakar (das Bild zeigt nicht etwa einen Parkplatz, sondern ist mitten auf der Stadtautobahn aufgenommen) und eine Impression vom idyllischen Senegalfluss im Abendlicht.