Africa visa
Getting visa on the road can be time consuming, expensive and frustrating at times. Especially when crossing Africa, it can be hard to get hold of that little needed piece of paper that gets you into that count...
Border Senegal – Mali (Kidira)
Duration: 45 min
Costs involvd: none
General impression: easy
This must have been the easiest border crossing so far. There's really not much to it.
About 2 km before the border: get you...
Green at last
People kept telling us how great the Casamance region, in the south of Senegal, really was. The place to be, the friendliest people, the greatest of environments. So we had to go there for sure.
Now here’s t...
Border Senegal – Gambia – Senegal (Farafenni – Soma)
Duration Farafenni: 1.5 hrs (30m Senegal, 1h Gambia)
Duration Soma: 1h (45m Gambia, 15m Senegal)
Costs involved Senegal: 500 CFA for filling out the passavant form
Costs involved Gambia: 1000 CFA unoff...
New Years Eve in Senegal
After all the horror stories about the border between the Western Sahara and Mauritania (border crossing was a breeze), there were those even wilder stories about the Senegalese border. We had heard of people h...
Border Mauritania – Senegal (Diama)
Duration Mauritania: 1,5h
Duration Senegal: 1.5 h (+Registration Carnet de Passages in Dakar)
Costs/person involved:
Mauritania:
customs 4000 MRO unofficial per bike
500 MRO road tax official
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