Shopping tips Dakar & Area

At the corner of Avenue Lamine-Guèye and Avenue Emile-Badiane. The most famous market of Dakar, the most touristic one too. You can find fruits, vegetables, pearls, fabric... All around, it is the Ali Baba's cave. Shopkeepers offer everything you can imagine, and more: cameras, electronic devices, all kinds of imported products most of the time and at low prices. Agitation, animation, smells inside the meat and fish department, Sandaga leaves no sense asleep. Be careful, you have to know how to negotiate.

Along with Sandaga, this is Dakar's oldest flea market, but it also has a bad reputation. Second-hand clothes, second-hand clothes and more second-hand clothes. But there's also new stuff, lots of designer clothes and fabrics, sheets and curtains. It's located on the outskirts of the city center and can be reached by cab or express bus. And once you're there, it's a shopper's paradise! Beware, however: it's also a pickpocket's paradise, and it's best to be accompanied by a Senegalese not only to visit it, but also to negotiate prices and make good bargains.