A Weekend in Saint-Louis
November 25th 2007 Our last excursion as a full group was the long-awaited trip to Saint-Louis. The city is about five or six hours north of Dakar, right near the border with Mauritania. It was the first capital of Senegal, but also the capital of French West Africa. The city is essentially an island, though things have spread out since back in the day. The architecture in Saint-Louis is very typically "colonial"...
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