Since I’ve last written many things have changed. The eight weeks language classes, cultural adaption lectures, security briefings and of time with my home-stay family in Thiafaitche have all come to an end. As I write I’ve been in the village of Diakhanor, my site for the next two years, for a little over a week. Diakhanor is one of the four villages that make up the Palmarin region, a 17km long peninsula caught between the Atlantic and Sine-Soloum Delta. To my west approximately 300yds are the last stretches of the Petit Cote beaches, a unique place where palms and boa bobs intermingle in the ocean breezes. The tourist season has yet to come full swing and now the beaches lack much in the form of human population short of a frequent progression of pirogues coming
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