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Eight things that happened in Casamance We liked southern Senegal’s Casamance region. And things started happening as soon as we crossed the border…
Through The Gambia: “We have peanuts, so we have peace” Two weeks in The Gambia; from Barra’s brothels and Banjul’s bumsters to red roads and rural rivers.
Listen to Africa is Guardian Travel’s Blog of the Month! We’re a bit astonished (to put it mildly), and chuffed to bits, but Guardian Travel has chosen us as their Blog of the Month
Baobabs and toubabs in northern Senegal After the end of Ramadan in St Louis, we set off for a slow, eight day cycle through rural Senegal’s backroads, passing through savannah and peanut farms, villages and holy cities, towards the Gambian border.
Choosing sound recording equipment for the expedition – six months on After six months on the road, our audio equipment is holding up well. Huw looks at how the kit has performed so far, and why we’ve made some recent additions to our equipment.
Ten things we learned on holiday We were in St Louis when I last wrote and we’re in St Louis now, but we’ve been halfway around Senegal in the meantime – enjoying a holiday from our semi-permanent holiday. Here are a few things we learned along the way.
Crossing the infamous Rosso border; entering sub-Saharan Africa; meeting some like-minded souls and taking a two-week holiday from our holiday.
Musings from Mauritania (Nouakchott to Rosso) Leaving Mauritania – with more questions than answers. An update on our last few days in Mauritania as we cycled from its capital to the Senegalese border.
Gallery: Cycling across the Sahara A few of our favourite photographs from our ten weeks in the Sahara – cycling the Atlantic route from Guelmim in Morocco to Nouakchott in Mauritania. Photographs by Huw Williams and Bex Sumner.
Mauritania, in numbers The fourth in our “in numbers” series: how many hours we spent chasing silent donkeys, the number of cars that hit us and other vital statistics from our time in Mauritania.
