It only took us 1.5 hours to get out of Mauritania and into Senegal and only Steve had to actually get out of the truck. We drove not too far to Saint Louis. The older part of town is actually an island connected to the mainland by a pretty fancy 500m long bridge. On the day we arrived it was a public holiday so not much was open but the next day it was a lot livelier and we did a spot of shopping. I bought some of the traditional highly patterned material to take home to make trousers. The island was nice to walk around as it was full of little streets with kids playing in them. The buildings had definitely seen better days though with most of them falling down. Most of the ones that had been restored to their colonial glory were hotels.
One if the best things about Saint Louis was our campsite. We were there for 3 nights and located right on an empty beach. The German owners were lovely and had sunbeds, hammocks and nice toilets and showers. A great treat after some of the campsites we have had.
Next stop Dakar.
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