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Written by Randall Wood
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Thursday, 24 January 2013 |
 Lac Rose was only a couple of kilometers away from Dakar, but given urban traffic/chaos, dusty back roads, one main thoroughfare blocked by a day market, and another closed for construction, it took us over an hour to reach. Surely there was an easier way home? There was, once you put on your lucky adventure hat. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 24 January 2013 )
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Thursday, 24 January 2013 |
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 Not far northeast of Dakar on the Cap Vert peninsula is Lac Rose, a shallow freshwater lake that decades of evaporation have converted into a salt pan whose color is somewhat pinkish in the right conditions of sunlight. We went to go have a look. The lake gets its color from a high concentration of Dunaliella salina algae, its shallow depth, and the high salt concentration. But it gets its fame from the famous Paris-Dakar off-road rally, which used to end here.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 24 January 2013 )
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Thursday, 29 November 2012 |
 A garden gate, a rough-hewn door cut from recently-felled hardwood, set in a garden wall of volcanic stone, whose untended garden threatens to overwhelm it and revert the whole place back to Africa. This is why we travel. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 November 2012 )
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Monday, 12 November 2012 |
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 Ask Valentina and Diego where they want to go on a Saturday morning and they'll have no trouble at all answering: Treasure Island! Smart kids: that's where I want to go, too.
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