One of the many things that is different here is the driving. You woud think driving 25 km (approx. 16 miles) should reasonably only take 30 minutes and definitely under an hour.
But, this is Senegal...this drive takes us anywhere from 1 1/2 on REALLY dead days up to 3+ hours on really sad bad days.
Senegal, however, has been given some money to put in a new autoroute and we are REALLY excited about it. They have been working on it since before we came here and just this week we got to drive on it for the first time. It was amazing, it reminded us of I-5, for a moment there I thought I was back in the states. It's going to make communting so much better for so many people.
Just for comparison:
Before
After
2 comments:
Wow!! We've been reading articles on the autoroute progress for, oh, a few years now :) Great to finally see it in use!
wow. what a difference! is that asphalt?
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