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Photograph by Luke Klein
Luke: After some stressful negotiations at the gare routière, we headed eastward out of Dakar in a taxi brousse (bush taxi).
Dave: I can't believe we don't have any pictures of the gare routiere. You walk into a crowd in a dusty parking lot, people mob you trying to sell stuff, and somehow you find a car. The driver usually has someone else doing the negotiations for him. It can get testy, but when the deal is struck, everyone's friends again.
Aaron: In Senegal, smoking tobacco is still legal.
Luke: We stopped in Thiès for lunch. Thiès is actually the second largest city in Senegal, but it is dramatically smaller than Dakar and has only a tiny fraction of Dakar's population.
Dave: Thies
in some ways was the prettiest city we encountered.
Photograph by Luke Klein
Photograph by Luke Klein