05/27/2014 05:00pm

To go in Casamance, you can take a boat from Dakar to Ziguinchor. The trip is around 15 hours,
you go along the coast, and then inside the country by the river. There is only one boat doing
the trip, and it does not work every day.

In 2003, Senegal infortunetly had a kind of Titanic story with this ferry. The boat named "Joola"
is gone with two thousand passengers, when the security is maximum five hundred.
Consequently it sinked, and the sea rescue operation started only 24 hours later,
so everybody is dead. At school, children learn a song in memory of the Joola passengers.
I remember Alimatou singing one.

Today the security rule is respected. But the boat will be on fairing last week, it means
we will have to come back to Dakar by road.