(Backup) Day 103, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. Dakar, Senegal

Once again I sound like a broken record,,, but this place was not what I expected! It was not as nice as I thought it would be. It reminded us of Casablanca, and that is not a compliment. Seems that the government doesn’t care much for its people. There was trash all over, there was lots of building going on, but no one cares enough to pick up the trash, more do they care, not to throw it out on the streets, or any other place for that matter. It’s a prodomintly Muslim nation, and most men have three or more wives! As Ed says he does well keeping up with ONE!

Our day was going to be long, we had an eight and a half hour tour, I’m not sure what they were thinking when they scheduled this one, as there was no way we were going to get back in time, and sure enough we didn’t. 

First stop we drove around the town of Dakar, 

 

Not sure what this was, but it was interesting. This goat, broke away and ran down the street!

 
This is an example of the trash.  This lighthouse was why Ed wanted to do the tour, but we never got closer. 

  

Then we saw this HUGE copper statue to the uniting of Africa, built by North Korea!  Meanwhile the woman live like this. 

 

Then it was on to see the sand painting, this circle of sand turned into this. 

 

Then it was on to see the outside of a mosque and the inside of a church. 

And then they took us to a market, where we were again almost attract to try to make us buy things, these people acted desperate so you don’t show your Iphone to tak a picture.

Then it was a long ride out of town to get to the Pink Lake, which wasn’t pink.  And since that is a story in itself I will do part 2

Quote: “The eye never forgets what the heart has seen”. - African proverb