Joal-Fadiouth

Thiès Region · Senegal

Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal
Photo: Bernard bill5 at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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November to May, during the dry season
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A twin town on the Petite Côte where a wooden footbridge leads to Fadiouth, an island built almost entirely of clam shells. The shell-paved lanes, granaries on stilts and a cemetery shared by Christians and Muslims give the place a character found nowhere else in Senegal.

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