R. Doug Wicker — Author

I promised on Monday to give you a few more images of Le Villages des Arts (The Village of Arts), and those are below. After you’ve had a chance to peruse those, I’ll show you Pointe des Almadies, the westernmost point of the African continent, then take you out to the impressive African Renaissance Monument, the Mosque of Divinity, and finally quick drivebys of Cathédrale Notre Dame des Victoires (Our Lady of Victories Cathedral) as we raced back to NCL Dawn to make our scheduled departure:

A journey to Dakar, Senegal would not be complete without a trip out to Pointe des Almadies. This narrow spit of land at the end of Cap-Vert (Cape Verde) Peninsula is the westernmost point of the African continent. This is one neat place to visit, but it does require about a 10- or 15-minute hike:

Back onto the buses, then a quick trip southeast to the African Renaissance Monument. This massive bronze sits atop a 100-metre/330-foot hill, and the statue itself rises 52 meters/171 feet above that.

For an interesting piece on the who, what, when, why, and how of North Korea’s involvement in this project, I refer you to: North Korea builds monuments around the world. Whatever, this statue certainly doesn’t look any smaller from the bottom of the hill:

Now we’re really getting rushed, so it’s a mad dash back to the ship with two brief photo stops along the way starting with the Mosque of Divinity:

And finishing up with Cathédrale Notre Dame des Victoires (Our Lady of Victories Cathedral):

This week’s Fun Photo Friday finishes up our 2025 journey along the west coast of Africa. Next week I’ll show you NCL Dawn’s next destination — Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. And we happened to land on this island the very sad 48th anniversary of an incident that still haunts air traffic controllers to this day.

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