Some pictures of the beach at Ngor, about a 20-minute walk from my apartment in Almadies. The village of Ngor - like Yoff, a fishing village along the northern coast of the peninsula that now bleeds into Dakar proper - is charming and gritty, with tightly-packed sand-filled streets and a calm oasis of a mosque, with open sides and a smooch concrete floor. You trudge through the village, past electronics stores and rapidly loading cars rapides (this is their main terminus), and then suddenly emerge onto the wide open beach, where all of the pirogues look newly painted, and boys wade their sheep into the sea to give them a good scrubbing. (Wish I had pictures of this. The rams, with their big curved horns, looked quite affronted.)
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