Waiting for the pirogue to Iles des Madeleines	No hassle	Scrambling around	Bouldering		Over the last year and a half, we have been to the Goree and Madelines Islands many times.   Both are very easy to get to yet are as different as possible.  Well, really, the Madelines are just there for a day trip, sometimes an overnight stay in a tent.  Basically, it is a great place to go for a day of snorkeling, sunning and generally getting away from Dakar without going far.  It is just a 20 minute pirougue ride from Soumbedioum, the Dakar fishing village. Goree, on the other hand, is a world-renowned island.  One of the first inhabited lands in West Africa, it is famous for it's role in the thriving slave trade that occured many years ago.  To go is also to escape Dakar's stuffiness and crowds, but in an enviroment where you feel like you have been sent back to a time many decades ago.   Despite the images conjured up by the accurate and very detailed portraryal of a slave's life on Goree by the curator of the Slave House, it is truly a place where one can relax and take begin to adopt the easy-going Senegalese attitude. Some other sights are on this page, Sandaga Market, Kermel Market and some street scenes that one see every day in Dakar.
20 minutes from Dakar	Uninhabited	Pistachio and Mango Milkshakes	Three of us with Kim Greco
Kim and Philippe	Goree Island from the ferry	The unforgettable Goree slave house	Lainie Thomas Nick Hilton and the three of us
Lainie and Austin in Sandaga Market	Lainie and her coconut	Coconut man	Sandaga Market
African thinkers	Colonial Goree alley	Climbing to the fortress Goree Island	Jeremy in Rastaland Goree Island
Strolling the streets of Goree	Goree Island Mosque	Traditional Kora player at Chez Loutcha	Typical transport in Senegal
Kimberly Edwards and Katy	Kermel Market	Lainie and Nick near Kermel Market

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