Dakar, Senegal · Africa
Pikine is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Dakar, 18km from Lake Retba (Lac Rose).
Pikine is in Dakar, Senegal, with about 870,000 people. The nearest town is Dakar, about 10 km away.
Pikine is a city and the capital of the Pikine department, in the Dakar region in Senegal. The largest suburb of Senegalese capital Dakar, as of the 2013 Census, it had a population of 1,170,791. It is the second-largest city in Senegal, behind Dakar.
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Within an hour or so of Pikine: House of Slaves, Gorée Island (11 km), Lake Retba (Lac Rose) (18 km).
Pikine is in Dakar, Senegal, about 10 km from Dakar.
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2 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
An 18th-century Dutch-built house on Gorée, 3 km off Dakar, opened as a memorial museum in 1962 with its much-photographed Door of No Return facing the Atlantic. Reached by ferry from the city.
11 km · about 20 min drive
natural wonder
A hypersaline lagoon behind the dunes northeast of Dakar that turns strawberry pink from Dunaliella salina algae, strongest late January to March. Salt collectors work it waist-deep from wooden pirogues.
18 km · about 20 min drive
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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