Senegal is home to two of the three Club Meds located south of the Sahara, but there is also a network of low budget guesthouses available. In this guide there is a birdlife guide, comprehensive coverage of national parks and wildlife reserves, and the low-down on beaches and watersports.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent: condensed, useful, and great reading,
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This review is from: Lonely Planet The Gambia and Senegal (Paperback)
In many cases, the coverage offered by Lonely Planet guidebooks may be hampered by the magnitude of the region they try and cover. This is why for example, in "Lonely Planet West Africa" (a bulky book which also covers Senegal and the Gambia), coverage of each single country is brief and not always perfect, and the reader is often lost among facts and information she or he does not need. Instead, in this much smaller and far more condensed guidebook, the author and editors have managed to put as much information and data as possible into it, about Senegal and the tiny Gambia. Coverage of both countries is excellent, providing up-to-date, accurate information and sensible advice, on anything from places to stay and eat, things to do and see, things to buy, and basically anything the traveller may wish to know. The coverage on culture, society, arts, music, and other information, is also excellent and wide, written in great prose and style. This is probably one of the best Lonely Planet guidebooks I have come across, and I would strongly recommend it to anyone travelling to those two countries. It will be an extremely useful tool, and will also provide great reading about the places being visited.
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Senegal and Gambia,
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This review is from: Lonely Planet The Gambia and Senegal (Paperback)
I had to do a project on Senegal. And this book helped me a lot, even though I'd like most of the information to be on Senegal instead of Gambia. The book will really help you if you are a traveller going to one of the countries. The part about pickpockets was very interesting as it tells me about the best way to be robbed in Senegal. Overall, this book covers everything, from local slangs to foods eaten. It deserves a four star!
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It's no surprise that The Gambia and Senegal are cohesive countries in many respects, or that the term Senegambia is often used when the region is discussed as a whole. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bush taxi, groundnut sauce, crocodile pool, coast resorts, traditional wrestling, ferry ramp, boxed text, visas cost, organised tours, read this first, package tourists, shared taxis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Africa, Gambia River, Cap Skiring, Kairaba Ave, Senegal River, Lac Retba, Langue de Barbaric, North America, Sierra Leone, Albert Market, Casamance River, Getting Around Senegambia, Air Senegal International, Atlantic Ocean, Lonely Planet, Trust Bank, Abuko Nature Reserve, Kairaba Hotel, Pointe des Almadies, Southern Africa, World Bank, Youssou N'Dour, James Island, Pare National de Niokolo-Koba, Saloum River New!
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It's no surprise that The Gambia and Senegal are cohesive countries in many respects, or that the term Senegambia is often used when the region is discussed as a whole. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bush taxi, groundnut sauce, crocodile pool, coast resorts, traditional wrestling, ferry ramp, boxed text, visas cost, organised tours, read this first, package tourists, shared taxis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Africa, Gambia River, Cap Skiring, Kairaba Ave, Senegal River, Lac Retba, Langue de Barbaric, North America, Sierra Leone, Albert Market, Casamance River, Getting Around Senegambia, Air Senegal International, Atlantic Ocean, Lonely Planet, Trust Bank, Abuko Nature Reserve, Kairaba Hotel, Pointe des Almadies, Southern Africa, World Bank, Youssou N'Dour, James Island, Pare National de Niokolo-Koba, Saloum River New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Travels in the Interior of Africa (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Mungo Park on page 60, and page 144
- Travels In The Interior Of Africa - Volume 1 by Mungo Park on page 60, and page 144
- Travel by Cargo Ship by Hugo Verlomme on page 98
- Second Round (African Writers Series) by Lenrie Peters on page 116
- The African Genius by Basil Davidson on page 61
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