Wow, what a brilliant day! 500kms in the savannah, beautiful villages, nice people, lots of animals (ok, not the big five, but cows, sheep, camels, donkeys, goats, squirrels, and one monkey).

The camp is under a few huge baobab trees, and it is still above 30°C, for the first time I will sleep without the sleeping bag.

Translation:

• 1001: take a team selfie with a baobab tree during the day
• 1002: complete the sentence “Limite de la zone de…”
• 1003: touch the coordinates in the given order, you’ve got 40 minutes
• 1004: how many vowels do you find on the building
• 1005: what is written on the sign
• 1006: find the water tower of the village Bokinedo (no coordinates given). How many pipes run up the tower?
• 1007: what’s the circumference of the tree
• 1008: touch the coordinates in the given order
• 1009: find the painted letter. (coordinates are incomplete: a: solution of task 1004. b: sum of the digits of the solution of task 812. c: solution of task 307, d: solution of task 706)

First shower after 4 days, what a great feeling! We spend the night at the beach near Saint Louis, at a campground run by a Swiss family.

That means clean showers, European toilets, delicious food, and high prices.

The sea was too cold for a swim (around 20 degrees) but we hit 38 degrees air temperature today.

Saw the first monkeys and warthogs along the Senegal river. Looking forward to a dusty savannah stage tomorrow. 

There was a serious accident yesterday as you may have heard in the news. We are fine, our thoughts are with the injured. The race is canceled today.