

Once the workshop had finished Raksha and I travelled down to Sine Saloum - on th

Sine Saloum is a delta area, with mangrove swamps and lots of birdlife. We stayed in a lovely lodge with huts facing out on to the water, all very peaceful, and very diffrent to Dakar. After Sine we came back to Dakar and Raksha spent some time getting used to the hustle and bustle of Dakar life while I went back to work. Last weekend we spent a couple of days on Ile Goree (see earlier blog) - really nice and relaxing again - and interesting to spend the evening there as mostly people go for a day trip and so it's esp

We then travelled to St Louis in the north of Senegal, right on the border with Mauretania. This was the old colonial capital and it still retains many old colonial style buildings, it has a run down feeling, but is gradually being restored to former glories. It's also a busy fishing port, with large fishing boats (pirogues, see picture left) plying too and fro all day long, bringing fish to the very busy, and extremely smelly, fish market on the edge of town.
So it's been a vey busy time and all seems to have gone by in a rush - Raksha goes back to UK tonight and then tomorrow I'm off to Burkina Faso for a few days to look at some of the projects that WFP are running there. Hopefully I will then have some more time to put some more detail and some more pictures, as I now have a working camera - thanks to Raksha!
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