Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Passing Through Rufisque

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Traffic in Rufisque, Senegal. Rufisque has the only real road off the Cap-Vert peninsula where Dakar is located.
No traffic: the trip is 15 minutes through Rufisque. Traffic? Well, anywhere from an hour to four.

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Two boys walk through Rufisque.

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Rufisque

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Hanging out in Rufisque.

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A clothing and fabric vender in Rufisque. Notice the large speakers? They play Koranic verses.



Sunday, September 11, 2011

A Gas Station on the Beach?

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Senegal is always full of unexpected things in random places, like this gas station in Soumbédioune, Dakar, Senegal

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Goats escaping the summer's heat under pirogues in Soumbédioune

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The launching area for the fishing pirogues.  I found this really cool visual of the Bay of Soumbédioune
Most of these photos are taken from the northwestern beach of the bay

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Children on the beach

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Pirogues

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Something about this payphone amused me endlessly. (Who uses payphones anymore? And even if you wanted to, there's not even a phone!)

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Reminders of Slavery

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Returned to Goree Island's La Maison des Esclaves [House of Slaves] 
to be sadly reminded of the horrors humans can inflict on other humans - Senegal


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This cell, where "problem" slaves were punished, is too small to stand and just big enough for one; 
several people were punished in it at a time and often being put in the cell meant a certain death.


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It's hard to believe this tiny, stunning island with its Mediterranean feel, 
held dozens of house specializing in selling humans to slave ships

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The hand of Miriam in the Jewish world, the hand of Fatima in the Muslim world--
Providing protection from the evil eye to an island with a dark past
(Also called Hamsa; For more on Hamsa)

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This is my attempt to balance out the heavy reminders of slavery with a photo
of the adorable goats playing right outside the House of Slaves




What is it about goats that is so adorable?  
The baby goats remind me of Rudolph from the Claymation Christmas special when they run


Wednesday, June 22, 2011

l'île de Gorée: An Evening Stroll

 Goree Island: A juxtaposition of beauty..and trash -- Goree Island, Senegal

 Hello, Goree Kitten

 the cove on Goree Island

 Hello, Goree Goat!

 A child playing on Goree Island



Saturday, June 4, 2011

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?

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Part VI: Bienvenue à Saint-Louis

 after driving along the beach, we crossed the Pont Faidherbe to Saint-Louis, Senegal, 
the former capital of colonial French West Africa  that occupyies a beautiful, tiny island in the Senegal River
[note the leaning tower of Pisa and the brotherhood artwork carved into the trees]


 where we stayed at the lovely Maison Rose on the water

 La Maison Rose

While filming goats for a friend's son, some boys thought it was hilarious.
Watch and you can hear them start to laugh at me:




Then when I played it back for them and they heard themselves,
they got very serious and then asked me to take a photo of them reciting verses from the Koran:

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Saly, Senegal

What life looks like under the mosquito net -- Saly, Senegal


A fruit tree in Saly

Someone is clearly missing a shoe...

Hello, Goats! Saly, Senegal

Flowers in Saly

Monday, May 31, 2010

Interdit de....?

That's right, you read it correctly: Forbidden to Urinate here..


Ngor Island -- Senegal

Hello, goats! -- Dakar, Senegal

Ngor Island as seen from Ngor Beach -- Dakar, Senegal

Malian baskets -- Senegal



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