Historic sites

Gorée Island

Senegal Dakar Dakar

Gorée Island
Photo: Gregor Rom, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A small car-free island off Dakar with pastel colonial houses and the House of Slaves with its 'Door of No Return', a memorial to the Atlantic slave trade, a UNESCO site.


Ferries leave from Dakar every hour or so.

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