Spent some time at the beach over the weekend – Dakar is on a peninsular and so the sea is never far away, and there are beaches within a few minutes walking distance of the City Centre. The beach scene is pretty lively, at least it is where I was on Sunday, with picnics, wrestling, and incredibly skilful football amongst a heaving mass of people – see pictures. The sea is teeming with fish – the preferred method of fishing on the beach seems to be simply scooping the fish out of the water on to the sand and then skewering them with a stick! The city itself is transformed on a Sunday, from a heaving, smoggy, jostling mass, to a quiet almost genteel place. However by Sunday evening everything was getting back to normal, traffic everywhere, street sellers laying out their wares, and the beggars and pickpockets back in action. Lively and bustling, certainly not boring!
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