The Signs of Senegal

Parking exit sign on the Place de l'Independence, Dakar, Senegal.

The decorations are from Christmas and the World Festival of Black Arts AKA le Festival Mondial des Arts Negres

Children crossing sign in Saint-Louis, Senegal.

A sign in Fadiouth, Senegal forbidding non-authorized vehicles. Strange logic: It was a tiny, sea-shelled path with barely enough room to walk. 

To the left is a pedestrian bridge. I was standing on a pedestrian path when I took the photo. What vehicles?

One of my favorite signs. Ever. Possibly in the history of ever. Who knew an Assembly Point sign could be so intense?

A Senegalese driver told my non-Senegalese friend that this sign meant that it's a dry area so you shouldn't light a match. Because that's a match not an exclamation point (aka caution!). Seriously. And you wonder why West African drivers aren't the best...

Corniche, Dakar, Senegal

Les Almadies area of Dakar.  It reminds me of Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Why?  Because of this famous image from the delightful book.

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Saloum Delta National Park

 Sunset over the mangroves at the Saloum Delta National Park

Siné-Saloum Delta, Senegal

 The park is known for its lush mangroves and is a bird watcher's destination

 birds finding their resting place for the night

 sunset!

 the sunset took on an amazing purple aura

When the birds were finding their resting place for the night, they made sounds like I'd never heard before:

I couldn't resist...the traffic heading back to Dakar!

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A Mangrove Sunset

The sunset over the Siné-Saloum Delta in Senegal

The mangroves at dusk

The last light on the mangroves in the Siné-Saloum Delta

 The last glimpse of the sun

Dusk on the pirogues

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A Quiet Evening in the Delta

 sunset in Toubacouta over the Siné-Saloum Delta in Senegal

 A pirogue at Keur Saloum in Toubacounta

 this little boy skipped the entire way past me...possibly one of the cutest things I've ever seen

 donkey en route to the Delta

 The cottages at Les Palétuviers in Toubacouta, Senegal

The Delta from Les Palétuviers

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l'île de Sipo

 fabric for sale on the very tiny l'île de Sipo in the Siné-Saloum Delta, Senegal

 Hello, Goats!  Sipo, Senegal

pirogues on the delta at Sipo

chickens playing on the discarded shells on Sipo

 a pirogue at Sipo

Loved this Baobab at Les Palétuviers in Toubacouta, Senegal

What's the Siné-Saloum Delta?

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Easter in the Siné-Saloum Delta

 An Easter family portrait after Mass

at the village Church in Sokone near Toubacounta in the Siné-Saloum Delta of Senegal

 The Chapel outside the Church

 While the outside looked like the villagers had hunted for every available scrap metal 

and somehow pieced it together as a Church, the inside was lovingly cared for and beautifully painted

 leaving Mass

driving company after Church

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