Photo: Ile de Goree (3)

Place: ile de gorees, Dakar, Région de Dakar, Senegal

Gijs Bekenkamp

By Gijs Bekenkamp
Uploaded on 27 December 2007
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Ile de Goree (3)

Ile de Goree, an island about three kilometres from the coast of Dakar. This small volcanic rock is inhabited by 1200 people. According to a local, there are 800 Muslims and 400 Christians. But when it's Christmas there are 1200 Christians and when a goat is being slaughtered there are 1200 Muslims. The island is an Unesco World Heritage Site. The houses are built in a colonial style and are coloured intensively; there are no cars allowed on this island and everywhere you look you see cactusses.

Comments...

  • 2 March 2008, Barry Williams said:

    Very colorful. I just left Goree Island and it is a very sobering place.

  • 26 April 2008, Doug Bull said:

    Intense colour. Nice capture.

  • 17 June 2008, Garret Clarke said:

    beautiful beautiful shot.

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