SENEGAL 'The land of Teranga'

Senegal is on your list to visit. Make sure you bring it to the top of the list because the experiences that I've had here has been so amazing. It was until I got here that I found out it's also called the land of Teranga. And Teranga is all of hospitality. I didn't know that until I got here. I found that out later, later after seeing how hospitable the people are. Everybody here is so nice. Everyone's gentle, everyone's smiling, and everyone is willing to help. They're going out of their way to help. The country doesn't have much in terms of money, in terms of resources, I mean, to have plenty of resources, but you know what I mean, like the people don't have a lot of money, but they are willing to share everything. Like the amount of people that just give me stuff. Like I'll go to the market and the women are giving me things. And they're inviting me for lunch randomly. The funny thing is, yesterday I was walking and waiting for a taxi and the taxi guy was like, 'Do you want lunch? I'm going home to cook.' And I was like, 'Eh.' That was not the first time. Like I experienced that in the car and I met a lovely Senegalese lady in the car and this woman took me everywhere for the last three days in the car and paid for everything and showed me everything. Like what community they live in, to their family home. Honestly, the land of Teranga. The land of hospitality. Yeah. You can't fault it. You can't move it up. Honestly, the joy here is amazing. It's contagious. I just love how peacefully it is. I also didn't come earlier because I was worried about solo traveling in Africa in general. But then after I solo traveled to Ghana, I was like, okay, if I can do Ghana, why not? So I'm going to do Senegal. And yeah, I have no notes. Like no notes. Like not a single amount of negativity I've experienced here as a solo traveler. I will come back here solo over and over and over again. I genuinely felt safe. I genuinely felt loved. I genuinely felt like I was amongst my people, people who love me and they'll just want me to have a great time. The hospitality here is mad. Like it's crazy. I've never felt hospitality like it anywhere in the world. It's crazy. And I love that so much. Senegal. Yeah.