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Im going to be doing a overland with a Bedford mk/mj starting in January 2013
anyone know any place to camp out near Dakar, Senegal , i know there used to be Hippo camp near Rufisque but im not sure if it excists and the last i hear was that it had gone downhill

I want to pick up the visas for ghana there, there are good reports right now of the avilablity there
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Im going to be doing a overland with a Bedford mk/mj starting in January 2013
anyone know any place to camp out near Dakar, Senegal , i know there used to be Hippo camp near Rufisque but im not sure if it excists and the last i hear was that it had gone downhill

I want to pick up the visas for ghana there, there are good reports right now of the avilablity there
You can try Lac Rose which is about 30km outside Dakar, it used to be the final finish line for the Dakar rally. There are several hotels/auberges around the lake that allow camping in their carparks. Failing that you can wild camp in the dunes nearby. The place is a bit of a weekend retreat for expats and Senegalese to escape the capital. Its pretty but not the most exciting place!
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You can try Lac Rose which is about 30km outside Dakar, it used to be the final finish line for the Dakar rally. There are several hotels/auberges around the lake that allow camping in their carparks. Failing that you can wild camp in the dunes nearby. The place is a bit of a weekend retreat for expats and Senegalese to escape the capital. Its pretty but not the most exciting place!

thanks for the info..we will be stuck there for a few days ( or weeks) getting visas for the next couple of countrys
u any recomondations of places in lac rose
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hey gazza171,
We will be passing through Dakkar in January>February on route through Senegal.

I'll pm you closer to the time and see if your still there...

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will probley stay in the airport then ,as it would be good to get the ghanan visa...this is if Mali does not clean up
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What is address for Ghana embassy in Dakar?
I've located it in Point E area, rue 6 ...... and this location is nowhere near 5 minutes from this SuNuGu restaurant or the airport
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Sunungal Hotel give or take a sand dune is at N14.75228 W17.50186
Ghanian Embassy approx N14.75137 W17.49260
distance.... a smidge over 1 km so, yes between 5 and 10 minutes on foot


and while I am here, here are some useful (hopefully) forms from their site
Do please update the coordinates to help others while you are there- thank you.
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Sunugal no longer allow camping
Update as of April 2016 - Arrived here hoping to camp as described, after a day of fighting with Douanes to get CDP stamped, only to be told they don't do that anymore. Beach area had been redeveloped...their nearest suggestion was 25km away and I was brain-fried from StLouis-Dakar traffic so ended up with expensive hotel room.

Trying Ghana embassy in morning...
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I have added the hotel and embassy to the OSM data base. No objections?
They should appear in the OSM map in a month or two. There is still camping indicated in the OSM data base for the hotel area... should I remove this?
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Sounds like a good idea to me - shame about the camping, but seems it's a casualty of the sprawl and expensive-isation of the city.
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Im going to be doing a overland with a Bedford mk/mj starting in January 2013
anyone know any place to camp out near Dakar, Senegal , i know there used to be Hippo camp near Rufisque but im not sure if it excists and the last i hear was that it had gone downhill

I want to pick up the visas for ghana there, there are good reports right now of the avilablity there
I've been to "club de voile" near downtown Dakar: they have little cheap bungalows and if I think it's possible to sleep in your van there.
Nice place.
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Hey, Can you tell me how you got on at the Ghana embassy? I'm heading there really soon and want to know if you can specify an entry date for a couple of months later. Thanks
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Hi,

I dropped in to the Ghana embassy to ask. I was told that they only process applications for Senegal residents. It would be 'difficult' for a non resident...but in any case it was Friday and they don't do visa work on a Friday. Read that how you like, but I didn't spend the weekend in Dakar to find out. I'm hoping for better luck and timing further down the road...

Good luck!
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@Vegan,

go back to Ghana embassy and kick them ... i got the Ghana visa w/o being reident ... i had prepared a package of info after that for all other pian-in-the-@rse countries spouting that line "visa only for residents"

Speak to Consul ... ghheez he even knew of my profession ... not many know what an actuary is ... but combine that with economics, law, and i push-back on such standard responses
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I was reading a blog somewhere online and they got their Ghana visa in Sierra-Leone, cost $100USD.

Here is an excerpt from their blog:

"Ghana visa:

The embassy of Ghana (N8 28.283 W13 16.130) has recently moved from the city centre up the hill and is easiest reached by taking a poda poda up to Wilberforce Roundabout. The usually only issue visas to residents so it took us a couple of hours of explaining and waiting until our application was accepted. Having the Nigeria visa already in our passports helped as it proved our intentions to travel to South Africa. It took 6 days to process our applications as everything had to go through Accra and had to be done perfectly. Even the smallest mistakes on the application form needed to be fixed with correction fluid and rewritten.

You get one form from the embassy and need to copy it three times. The four identically filled out forms together with another form provided by the embassy and 4 passport photos should do the trick.

We paid 100US$ (no notes smaller than 50US$ accepted) for a 1 month single entry visa with entry within 1 month."

I am hoping to get the Ghana visa in Rabat...
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