The New Adventures of the "Old" Sherrill: Road Trip

Saturday morning of June 1 was the beginning of our road trip to southeast Senegal. Amanda, Lindy, Jourdan, and I loaded into the truck and headed out of Fatick around 7:00 am. It took us about 10 hours to get all the way down to Kedougou where we were going to spend two nights. It was hot and we were very tired so the first thing we did was hit the pool of our hotel.

The hotel was nice and we had wonderful air conditioning. However, the internet did not work. We ate supper overlooking the river with the mountains in the background. It rained all night which made for good sleeping but it was bad for our plans for the next day. We were going to go see the waterfall which was nearby. However, after the rain, it was not possible to make it to the falls. That left us with nothing to do that day and still no internet. The hotel let us check out so we headed back up to Tambacounda where we were supposed to be on Monday night. It was closer to Niokola Koba, the park we were planning to visit on Monday. This time our hotel had a nice pool, internet, good food, but our air conditioner was pretty bad. Jourdan and I were so hot on Sunday night that we couldn't sleep. I finally went to the office around midnight to sit in front of the fan to cool off. The desk clerk decided to give us the fan for our room which was a great improvement and allowed us to finally get some sleep.

We headed to Niokola Koba bright and early on Monday morning. Once we got to the park we hired a truck to drive us through the park. We sat on seats in the bed of the truck while the driver took us through the park. The road was pretty rough so we did a lot of bouncing and had to watch out for branches. It was a little disappointing because we didn't see too many animals but at least we had a good time together. Here are some pictures of some of the animals that we saw.