Where Luz Caminera would send you
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Île de Gorée
Landmark
Oct 19
Île de Gorée★★★★★ Luz Caminera's pick
Twenty minutes by chaloupe from the port and you are on an island with no cars, pastel signare houses, and a silence Dakar never offers. One of the first twelve World Heritage Sites in the world (1978) — walk it in an afternoon and you will have walked all of it.
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Maison des Esclaves
Attraction
Oct 19
Maison des Esclaves★★★★★ Luz Caminera's pick
The ochre house whose ground-floor corridor ends in the Door of No Return, facing the Atlantic. A museum since 1962 under the long curatorship of Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye — historians dispute the numbers, the doorway does not care; you will stand still in front of it.
Île de Gorée, Dakar, Senegal -
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Musée de la Femme Henriette-Bathily
Attraction
Oct 19
Musée de la Femme Henriette-Bathily★★★★ Luz Caminera's pick
Africa's first women's museum, founded on Gorée in 1994 and moved to the city in 2015. Objects, art and photographs telling the history of Senegal's women — parures, calabashes, the women who shaped the country — in one of the domes of the Place du Souvenir.
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Dak'Art — Biennale of Contemporary African Art
Event
Oct 19
Dak'Art — Biennale of Contemporary African ArtNov 19 – Dec 19★★★★★ Luz Caminera's pick
The city's biennale of contemporary African art, 19 November to 19 December, filling museums, galleries and cultural spaces across the capital. The official site already names the artistic direction and the Grand Témoin — plan any Dakar trip after mid-November around it.
Dakar, Senegal