Street market in Dakar. (695k) Street market near the train station in Dakar. (889k) Street market in a suburb of Dakar. (827k) Chickens for sale in a street market. (859k) Stores in Saint Louis. (724k) Stores in Saint Louis. (806k) Inside the meat and produce market in Dakar. The fish market really smelled. (825k) Outside a crafts market in Dakar. (860k) Wood carver in a crafts market in Dakar. (992k) Wood carver in a crafts market. (889k) Wood carved three monkeys (don't talk, don't see, don't hear). (725k) Street vendor selling phone cards. They do a reasonable business, it is the normal way to recharge your cell phone to make more calls. (799k) "Fast food" restaurant. (598k) Barber shop. (920k) Fancy name for a local shop. (641k) Advertising for a doctor practicing traditional medicine. (717k) Local market vendor. (816k) Local market vendor. (754k) Street vendor in Dakar. (720k) Street vendor in Dakar. (687k) Street vendor in Dakar, selling a book about Hitler being a marionette of the Zionists. (612k) Auto repair shop. I saw places like this a lot. (759k)
Agriculture
Vegetable garden. (1098k) Herd of cattle seeking shade under a Baobab. (728k) Herd of Zebu cattle. (794k) Goats and sheep. They are sometimes hard to distinguish. (854k) A herd of sheep on the road. (714k) Donkeys and sheep on the road. (643k) In the towns, livestock is just roaming around everywhere. (806k) Roadkill cow. I saw quite a few of those. (949k)
Transportation
Even paved roads were sometimes in pretty bad shape. We frequently used the shoulder or even drove in the grass along the road, because the asphalt was in really bad condition. (658k) This was a really badly washed out road. (739k) Strictly enforced vehicle width restriction for a bridge. If you don't fit, you don't go. Our Toyota Landcruiser just barely fit through. (464k) A lot of transportation is done by hand, especially outside the cities, but also, like here, in Dakar. (904k) Bicycles were ubiquitous. (672k) Motorcycles even more so. (731k) Donkey cart. (763k) Some had two donkeys pulling, but most had only one. (780k) This was a local taxi in a small town. (613k) Getting onto a local taxi in a small town. (847k) Donkey cart taxi in Saint Louis. (609k) Horse drawn cart used as taxi. Horse and donkey carts were ubiquitous. (753k) Horse drawn cart on a street prohibited for these carts. (960k) He was holding up traffic quite a bit. (736k) This one was being fed during a break. (745k) Traffic in Dakar. (828k) Taxis in Dakar. (915k) Some where in pretty bad shape. (900k) And some don't survive. (882k) Some cars were in really bad shape. But I did see this car drive off, after they finally got it to run (after several attempts at starting). (623k) Another of these cars where you can't believe that they ares still moving under their own power. (573k) Another one of these driving wrecks. (742k) I have no idea how this wheel stayed on the car. I saw similar situations several times. (689k) On the other hand, there were also quite a few new cars on the roads. (720k) Cars and trucks are frequently really loaded. We were driving next to the road, because the road itself was in very bad condition. (554k) Small buses, loading and unload in a village. These buses are the main mode of transportation between villages and town. (766k) They are always loaded heavily. (773k) Including livestock on the roof. (649k) Local bus in Dakar. These brightly decorated buses were everywhere. (953k) Local bus in Saint Louis. Most of these local buses had "Alhamdoulillah" written on them, meaning "All praise is due to Allah". (807k) Local bus in Saint Louis. (754k) Huge 22-wheel truck. (657k) Transporting heavy road construction equipment. (890k) Many of the trucks belched out copious amounts of pollution. (654k) Street vendor walking through the traffic jam on the way into Dakar. (388k) Train going into Dakar. The trains were just as packed as the buses. (672k) Fishing port scene in Saint Louis. (775k) Colorfully painted fishing boats. (620k) Ferry boat across the Sénégal River into Mauritania. (479k) Ferry boats in Dakar from the Plage de N'Gor to Île de N'Gor. I was surprised that they were handing out life vests. (626k) Ferry boats in Dakar from the Plage de N'Gor to Île de N'Gor. (786k)
Daily Life
Street scene in Dakar. (1007k) Street scene in Dakar. (796k) Street scene in Dakar. (951k) Street sweeping in Dakar. The streets were reasonably clean in Dakar. (822k) Foosball, a popular way to spend time. (751k) Village well with people getting their water. (1013k) Village life on the Sénégal river, the border to Mauritania. Unfortunately there was a lot of garbage in a lot of places. (891k) Fishermen tending to their equipment. (927k) Fishing harbor scene with resting horses. (877k) I did see frequent signs of foreign aid, although not as much as in Mali. (704k) A very interesting painting in a small hotel in Plage de N'Gor, a suburb of Dakar. (648k)
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