Goree Island
Goree Island as seen from Dakar, Senegal
ferry schedule
approaching the island
unloading the ferry
With its colonial brick-structures and sand-blown, bougainvillea-flushed alleyways, this island is a haven of tranquility. But there's a sad background to all this calm beauty - Île de Gorée used to be an important slave trading station, and many visitors come here for traces of this tragic past.
Text from Lonely Planet
fortification facing Dakar harbor
Goree Island
Colonial style residence
World Heritage site
the cathedral
its interior
iron spiral staircase to the balcony level
Senegal chapter of the Knights of Malta
the Museum
fishing boats
carrying the fresh catch
