Dakar Travel Guide

Old capital of French Western Africa (AOF), then of transitory Federation of Mali, Dakar is since April 4, 1960 that of the Republic of Senegal. Its geographical site, with Western end of Africa, facilitated installation of the first colonists, then trade with Europe and Americas. Dakar has the traditional structure of the African port cities: port, colonial district with town planning " in échiquier" (currently the district of the Plate with infrastructures such as Parliament, the presidential palace, the cathedral of the African Memory, the Museum), indigenous district (currently Médina, SICAP) as well as the remarkable inheritance of island of Gorée to less than thirty minutes of the port. Dakar is girdled of islands; most famous, Gorée, receives each year several hundreds of thousands of visitors; most deserted, island of Yoff, one wonders even if fishermen accost there. Between these two extremes: Ngor.