Sine Saloun

For our last mini travel vacation all of us took a Pirog to an Island in Sine Saloun called Mar Lodj.

Victoria's really cute kids came with us.

We took a Charrett ride through the village. At one point about 50 kids randomly started chasing us yelling "cadeau" which means "gift"

Then we watched a wrestling match. It started 4 hours late (typical) so we were waiting around for a while, but it was worth it. The matches were super intense and everyone in the village was there. The kids were also super friendly and outgoing and wanted to play with us the whole time. At one point the wrestling match just randomly went into overdrive and everyone just started cheering super loud and dancing and people were running through the rink and giving money to the drummers. It was crazy but so fun to watch.

We also met with a peace corps volunteer who was about to finish her two years. She worked with the village women to create their own business where they sold things like jam and batik, like in the picture.

My friend tried to climb a palm tree and did really well for her first attempt (I couldn't even get my arms around it)

But she was still showed up by a local senegalese boy

On the way home we stopped to look at the biggest Baobob tree in west africa.

We even got to go inside it. It smelled bad but was really cool to see. Especially cause there were hundreds of bats hanging from the ceiling which was crazy cool.