Senegal: Île de Gorée

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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.

Try to visit Gorée on its annual Jours des Portes Ouvertes in May/June, when the island's numerous artists' ateliers and many private homes are open to the public.

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Price: Visits to the island are free, though you'll have to pay a small tourist tax of CFA 0.70.
Getting there: ferry: 20-minute ride from Dakar

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