Pictures: Senegal, la Première Semaine

Kap and Graham, ready to go, on the train platform in Hamburg. Most of that luggage is gifts for people Kap knows in Senegal:


Ngor beach (sort of in/by Dakar, the capital) and boys playing soccer:


Getting situated in the kitchen of our room in Ngor:


Kap, visiting with her friends Alexa and Mbegane, who now live in D.C. and brought their toddler son back to visit family in Dakar for the first time:


The "secret goat" Kap's friends (where we rented a room the first days) keep in their back courtyard. It's practical to keep a goat for obvious food/money reasons, and apparently it's also practical not to tell people about it:


Caitlin, cooking mafé (peanut sauce) at home in St. Louis:


Game of checkers outside Djoudj, the bird park:


A small, small fraction of the pelicans:


"Mauritania's across the water, but alas I cannot swim":


Dump truck to Touba:


Crowded street in Touba (but it will be much more crowded tomorrow) and the mosque seen from a safe distance back in the crowd:


Lunch with Ibrahima, Caitlin's friend and our host in Touba. Caitlin and Kerry are wearing matching-set Senegalese outfits, because ankle-length skirts are de rigeur in the devout city of Touba, and breakfast is omelette sandwiches inside baguettes. Everything in this country gets put in a baguette sooner or later!