Pink Lake and Toubakouta
a camel at Pink Lake, you could pay to ride them for 15 minutes So, I have had several adventures since I last wrote to report upon. The first is a trip that we took two weekends ago to the Pink Lake a little bit outside of Dakar. On Saturday morning, we met up on the VDN, which is a large highway that runs through Dakar. After flagging down several cabs and having them laugh at us and drive away for asking to go to Pink Lake, we got a driver to agree to go for 10,000 CFA. Once we got out of the city, we realized why all of the other drivers had laughed at us. The dirt roads through the little towns we had to pass through were flooded and about an hour into our drive we found ourselves sitting on the side of the road next to our broken down cab. Luckily our driver was handy and he got the car back up and running and we reached Pink Lake about an hour later. The lake is pink because of the population of pink halophilic bacteria that live in its water, which...