Travel Guide Guet-Ndar

Across the bridge from Ndar, Guet-Ndar is bustling with activity. As soon as you cross it, you can feel the activity, and perhaps sometimes a certain aggressiveness, unless it's the result of its reputation. Guet-Ndar is not the cleanest of places, and the concentration of humanity is often frightening. And yet, behind the insalubrity and poverty on display, on the other side, playful children and horse-drawn carriages filled with precious fish, colorful pirogues, sandy alleyways and makeshift mosques. Guet-Ndar is also surprisingly organized. The fishing industry, with its rules and contacts. At dawn, the fishermen embark to cross the bar, a perilous and acrobatic exercise. At sunrise, the whole of Guet-Ndar comes to relieve itself on the beach. In this pattern repeated a thousand times, tourists often disembark after the last stage. Choose your time carefully. For late risers, it's worth noting that the return from fishing at dusk isn't bad either, minus the magic of crossing the bar into the open sea. A little further south, the Muslim fishermen's cemetery stands on a hill, an unskilled heap of graves and posts covered with nets. But with the ocean advancing, Guet-Ndar is threatened with extinction, as it watches helplessly as its dwellings are steadily destroyed. Little by little, the authorities relocated the families to Bango, a village some ten kilometers from their place of work.