10th story: Rosso to
Dakar (20.02.05 - 06.03.05)Finally
some green countryside, we couldn’t
get enough of it!
Our first destination in Senegal
was the Djoudj Bird Park, where
we wanted to see the huge pelican
colony. It was 35km of tough
washboard riding, but really
worth it, because we saw some
interesting birds as well as a
python and some war-hogs with
their little ones.
We continued to
St. Louis, the former capital of
Senegal-Mauritania. Here we had
some rest days and took some time
to explore the city.
Rested and
refreshed we hit the road south.
There is quite some traffic and
since it gets quite hot around
the middle of the day we have to
stop and held “siesta”.
We make good progress since the
road is rather flat. Everywhere
we pass through people look at us
and our bikes. Generally speaking
people are much more open minded
here in Senegal, though every
second person demands a pen, a
gift or money. A polite but firm
“no” is luckily easily
accepted, everyone seems to think
that “asking won’t hurt
anyone“.
Since the campground close to
Dakar, which was highly
recommended in our guidebook,
didn’t exist anymore we
continued further south along the
coast. In the small village of
Toubab Dialow we found a very
nice hotel right at the Atlantic
ocean.
Here we could
leave our bikes and the equipment
because we decided to fly home to
Germany for two weeks at short
sight: Hendrik has to get his
routine medical check because of
his diabetes. We also have to
exchange some of the equipment
and don’t want to wait for
parcels to arrive.
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