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Dakar Map, Senegal

If you feel like you need some help to find your way in your destination city, you are in the right place. This Dakar Map will certainly help you to seek out the best restaurants, clubs and sights in town. You want to know what is the best place for a walk? Or what you should be watching out for during your visit? Learn more about the best things to do in the city reading our travel tips and then get around in Dakar with Travelgrove's map. While searching for places, you can also check some cheap flights or deals or you can take a look at our user's galleries about the city. We hope you will find our city map of Dakar useful. Enjoy your trip and come back to share your travel experience about Dakar!

Dakar History

Today Goree Island and the places were slaves has been housed became one of UNESCO’s most important Historical Monument. Most visitors would visit this spot and experience the horrors felt by the slaves in the past in La Maison des Enclaves. Inside that enclosure is a cold structure prison cell with shackles apartments of the slave dealer and other museums that are housed in old slave houses and built forts to hide... read more

Dakar Nightlife

Several music rooms and nightclubs in Dakar play their famous local modern music which is known as “mbalakh”. Going to the cinemas is a very famous hobby in this city showing all the latest films and most of it them are French. If you’re into gambling, they have casinos and theaters located in N’Gor one of the popular theatres is Daniel Sorano National Theater in Boulevard de la Republique. Other recreational... read more

Dakar Sightseeing

Île de Gorée or Goree Island is considered as the smallest district in Dakar however, it has the largest fort that has served as a crucial transit for economic trade and not for slave trade. Originally, it was earlier settled by Europeans during the 15th century to explore the island and defend against invaders. No natives have settled on the island because of lack of natural source of water which made the island... read more

Dakar Travel Guide

The city of Dakar is estimated to have a population of around 1000000 inhabitants as per the census of year 2006. The metropolitan area of Dakar has the population of around 2.5 million inhabitants. The history of Dakar dates back to no less than 15th century and it was the year 1444 when Portuguese started to enter this city and slowly the economical growth of this city paced up. read more