Pikine
Worth seeing in and around Pikine
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Pikine
- Airports
- Blaise Diagne (DSS), 36 km · Banjul (BJL), 178 km
- Stations
- Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, 9.8 km
- Banjul (Yundum) → Pikine178 km · quickest by road, 6h 33m · $27–37
- Bissau → Pikine376 km · quickest by air, 6h 22m · $250–370
- Nouakchott → Pikine399 km · quickest by air, 7h 13m · $310–450
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Pikine
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Pikine. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA state-owned ferry runs between Dakar and Ziguinchor in Senegal's Casamance region (below The Gambia).
- Get inThe Joola, one of the former ferries on this route, capsized in a storm while overloaded in 2002, regarded as the second deadliest maritime disaster in recent history.
- Get inThe Aline Sitoé Diatta, built in 2008, is the current ferry.
- Get inThe ferry runs overnight and takes around 16 hours in each direction.
- Go nextSine Saloum Delta — Just north of the border with Gambia, the Delta has amazing mangrove forests that you can tour by pirogue (a motored canoe).
From Wikivoyage: Dakar, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Pikine
Pikine is 2 km from Guédiawaye, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Guédiawayetown in Senegal900 m
- Yoffdistrict of Dakar, Senegal9.1 km
- Cambérènedistrict of Dakar, Senegal4.2 km
- Thiaroyetown in Dakar Region, Senegal5.6 km
- Grand Yoffdistrict of Dakar, Senegal7.8 km
- Sicap-Libertédistrict of Dakar, Senegal9.1 km