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The events of the festival take place all over town. This internationally renowned event attracts jazz musicians and visitors from around the world and is the most important jazz festival in Africa. This annual event generally occurs in May and lasts about a week. There is a decent sized market in Guet N'dar, somewhat smaller than the larger Sor market two bridges away. The scene is very colorful and lively, but when you walk along the beach you will see the effects of overcrowding in the squalid sanitary conditions and insufficient trash disposal.

If you walk into the residential district of Guet Ndar, you will see thousands of people trying to live their their lives squeezed in a tiny area. It is possible to see nearly every stage from the first carvings to the final painting. Nearby very colorful pirogues are always under construction. Women can be found smoking and drying fish next to the beach in vast cauldrons. Local people carry the fish in baskets on their neck and on their heads. Dozens of trucks wait to buy up the fish (for as little as 500 CFA a crate) and transport them into the interior as far as Kaolack, Tambacounda and Mali. If you're lucky, you might get a great deal on seafood. Walk to Guet Ndar, the fishing village that is located on the Langue de Barberie and watch the fisherman bring in their catch. Be sure to stop into the Syndicat d’Initiative of Saint Louis located in the Governance building opposite the bridge and pick up the urban walk they have mapped out. The Island was named a UNESCO world heritage site in 2000. Many of the buildings hold their old character with many brightly colored buildings and beautiful balconies to be seen all around the Island.

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It played an important cultural and economic role in the whole of West Africa, a stroll around the Ville (as the cab drivers know it as) quickly reveals the French colonial influence. Saint-Louis was founded in 1659 and named after the French King Louis XIV in the 1700s, it is the oldest city to be created by Europeans on the western coast of Africa and served as the capital of Senegal from 1872 to 1957. Scooters are available for 10000CFA/Day and bikes for 5000CFA/Day. Located on the corner of Rue Blanchot and Quai Roume on the Island. To see more of Saint-Louis, why not rent a scooter or a bicycle, this is a great way to cover more ground and to explore some places that you might not be able to reach on foot. However, most of the historic city is easily accessible by foot. On the Island of Ndar, there are calesh rides designed for site-seeing tourists. There is a fairly decent 'car rapide' public transport system that shouldn't cost more than 100 F CFA for your average stretch. From the garage (gare routiere) to downtown or at night expect to pay 600 F CFA. You can usually count on taxis fares in Saint-Louis to be a solid fixed rate of 500 F CFA. If you have your own car, from Dakar take Route N2 all the way to Saint-Louis. You wait at the station for the car to be full, which means the rest of the passengers are heading for Saint-Louis as well, so it's a direct trip. They leave from the main station (gare routière) in Pikine, just outside of Dakar (also called Baux Marachers). The easiest way to get to Saint-Louis from Dakar is in a sept-place, which is a seven passenger station wagon. There is no train service to Saint-Louis. Also accessible from Saint-Louis are the Parc National des Oiseaux du Djoudj and the Réserve Spéciale de Faune de Guembeul. The Île de N’Dar is linked to the Langue de Barbarie Peninsula via the Pont Mustapha Malick Gaye Bridge, the Langue de Barbarie Peninsula is home to the beautiful beaches of the Hydrobase as well as part of the Parc National de la Langue de Barbarie. The mainland is connected to the historical island which is just 2km long and 400m wide via the Pont Faidherbe Bridge, which was recently reconstructed, completed in November 2011.

The city of Saint-Louis is located about 260km north of Dakar on the coast and spreads across the mainland (Sor), Île de N’Dar (the Island), and the Langue de Barbarie Peninsula. Saint-Louis is a city on the Grande Cote in Northern Senegal. For other places with the same name, see Saint Louis (disambiguation).

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