We ended up staying here a couple of days as the places was so nice, and we had a lot of jobs to catch up on. Also it was good to just chill out as we had been doing a lot of driving.
This is the main building in the campsite. The views of the nature reserve from the top of the tower are excellent. The staff are friendly and the facilities are also good, with clean showers and toilets and drinkable water.
This is the beach just outside the Zebrabar. The water you can see is the last stage of the Senegal River as it meets the sea. The Atlantic Ocean is behind the land spit in the background of the picture.
We stopped at this Elton garage on the edge of St. Louis to get the Landies washed down and re-greased after we had to cross the salt-water estuary to leave the Zebrabar.
Checking that they put grease in all the right places.
There are often food stalls around the streets of most African cities. Some of the food is real good and most of the time is cheap. Make your own mind up about the cleanliness though!
This lake has a pinkish tint to the waters because of a reaction between the high salt content and some bacteria that lives in the water. It is also famous as the modern day finishing point for the Paris-Dakar Rally.
This was the view from the hotel La Source, which we stayed at along the Petite Cote. This area is not far south from Dakar and has some of the nicest beaches in Senegal. We stayed here two nights, as the place was so nice.
The view of the beach just below the hotel we stayed at.
This is a view of the main and one of the secondary towers. It is by far the tallest and biggest building it town, and the guide said it could hold 10,000 people.
As you can see the decoration is ornately done. It took the plasters 5 years to finish, with 3 teams working together. One mixing, one plastering and the other painting.
We were not allowed to enter this area, as non-Muslims. This is where the prays are lead from and the leaders voice is relayed to the other praying areas by speakers.
This was one of the wild campsites we stayed at on our way to Tambacounda.
A stretch of the piste we took between Velingara and Kolda
They might be small, but they think big when it comes to building.
A combination of rough roads and the spare wheel attached to the back door had broken the frame inside. We stopped at a little welding shop at the side of the road, were I endeavoured to weld some plates on the frame, badly.
This is the campsite just out side Serekunda in The Gambia. This were we met another couple travelling overland in the Land Rover, Paul and Kate. They were on there was back up from South Africa, and had plenty of good stories and useful info to tell us.