Senegal was visited in two phases :
--Ténéré-Dakar raid from the east to the west at Saly-Portugal,
--Back towards France via the north and Saint-Louis.

The border was crossed at Kidira. The customs formalities are very simplified for the French nationals. After a bad track which finished the Malian tour, the tar made its appearance as of the Senegalese border control. But the future showed that the state of  roads is very unequal.

The presupposed objective was to visit mangroves and the peninsula of Palmarin located at 20 km southward of Joal-Fadiout.
Mistakes of orientation in the search of a ferry took the worst tracks in this area.

The convoy in the expectancy
Sokone

Grey sand beach
Peninsula of Palmarin

The truck in the shade
Joal-Fadiout

Fishing boats at the port
Joal-Fadiout

Child crossing a street
Joal-Fadiout

Residence at the hotel  "Les Bougainvillées"
Saly-Portugal

The organized tour being finished, it was necessary to think of the return to France. The technical problems of the truck decided me not to stay late alone both in Senegal and in Mauritania. The plan of road envisaged one day to go at the border to Mauritania by visiting to the passage the town of Saint-Louis.

In green the road from Saly-Portugal to the Diama dam

Photo satellite
'Île Saint-Louis
Langue de Barbarie

The statue of Faidherbe
Governor of the colony

Information board
Construction of the Faidherbe Bridge by Eiffel
Initially intended to cross the Danube!

Faidherbe Bridge
Metal structure

Church of the 19th century

Street in l'île Saint-Louis

Hotel de "La Poste"
Frequented by the pilots of the Air-mail

Palace of the Governor

Street in l'île Saint-Louis
Colonial type with balustrades
like New Orleans

Saint-Louis is registered at the world inheritance of UNESCO
Modern building of "colonial style"

Beach
Langue de Barbarie

Fishing port
Langue de Barbarie

Crowd at the arrival of "the fishing"
in the early morning 

Unloading of "fishing"

Potential buyers
Idlers
Beggars?

Presentation of "fishing"

The way out of Senegal was carried out with a few tens of kilometres in the north from Saint-Louis to the Diama dam, then the entry in Mali on other side of the stopping.
The mileage travelled in Senegal was of 1,252 km in four days of road and a few hundred kilometres of bad tracks.