I left Nouakchott on March 22nd early in the morning. A driver of the shared car came to pick me up at Maison des artistes at 5am and we travelled to Rosso. It took around 3 hours to get there. When we were arriving in the south of Mauritania the landscape started to change and it was no more a scorched desert but savannah with a lot of vegetation. I didn't see any baobab tree in Mauritania but in Senegal there were many of them.
When we arrived in Rosso it was surprisingly cold in the morning. I wore my jacket but I was shivering. We found a boat which took us on the other side of the river. The border was calm, I didn't experience any problem while crossing from Mauritania to Senegal (but when I was going back to Mauritania it was completely different, I will mention it later). I had my yellow fever vaccination but nobody wanted to see it, it was required only after I returned from Senegal to Mauritania. I found a shared car to Saint Louis and we had to wait until it was full. The journey took 3 or 4 hours although it was not far away. I called my host and his cousin came to pick me up. My host had a motorbike accident before I came and he spent most of the time lying in a bed but his cousin showed me around.

We took a taxi (which was literally a wreck) in the evening to the beach, but the taxi punctured a tyre immediately and we had to wait for another one. We watched a sunset on the beach and then we returned home. In the morning we took a bus together to Dakar where I met my other hosts. Daly was my CS host and Zinor was his a cousin of his wife. I spent the first day with Zinor, we took a boat to the Ngor island which is a paradise. 

There was a strong wind blowing in Dakar but the beach in Ngor was shielded. I swam in the sea which looked much better than in Mauritania, there were many fishes and urchins. Then we went to the Renaissance Monument. On Saturday I moved to Daly's family house and he showed me around and then we took a boat to Ile de Goree where we visited the House of slaves and I bought some souvenirs. 

Daly bought me a dried baobab fruit but it didn't taste well and it got stuck to the teeth very much. The other day it was the presidential election and we decided it wasn't safe to stay in Dakar so we went to visit the Pink Lake. I enjoyed bathing there a lot, it was like floating in the Dead sea. On Monday we went to a beach and on Tuesday I moved to Zinor and we visited the Pink Lake again. We didn't go to Gambia because we decided it wasn't worth for one day. On Wednesday I returned to Saint Louis where I stayed with my former host for one night.