Yoff
Yoff is a town, part of the city (commune) of Dakar, located in Senegal.
Yoff is a town, part of the city (commune) of Dakar, located in Senegal. It lies north of downtown Dakar and immediately north of Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport. The town is built along the broad beach at Yoff Bay. According to the 2014 census, the population of Yoff is 89,442 inhabitants. Yoff is one of the four original Lebou villages of the Cap-Vert Peninsula, along with Hann, Ngor, and Ouakam.
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Worth seeing in and around Yoff
5 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.
- 01African Renaissance Monument
The African Renaissance Monument is a 50-metre tall bronze statue located on top of one of the twin hills known as Collines des Mamelles, outside Dakar, Senegal. Built overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the Ouakam suburb, the statue was designed by the Senegalese architect Pierre Goudiaby Atepa after an idea presented by President Abdoulaye Wade, and built by Mansudae Overseas Projects, a monument construction company from North Korea.
5.8 km · memorial outside of Dakar, Senegal · Wikipedia - 02Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor
Léopold Sédar Senghor Stadium, formerly the Stade de l'Amitie, is a multi-purpose stadium in Dakar, Senegal.It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of ASC Jeanne d'Arc and the Senegal national football team.
2.7 km · football stadium in Dakar · Wikipedia - 03Hann Forest and Zoological Park
The Hann Forest and Zoological Park is a nature reserve located in Dakar, the capital of the African country of Senegal, in the Hann Bel-Air commune.
6 km · zoo in Sénégal · Wikipedia - 04Stade de Ngor
Stade de Ngor is a multi-use stadium in Ngor in the west of Dakar, Senegal. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as a home ground of Olympique de Ngor, also Almadies plays at the stadium.
5.2 km · multi-use stadium in Ngor, Senegal · Wikipedia - 05Dakar Bourguiba University
Dakar Bourguiba University or is located in Dakar, Senegal. It was founded in 1995.
5.6 km · university in Dakar, Senegal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Yoff
- Airports
- Blaise Diagne (DSS), 44 km · Banjul (BJL), 182 km
- Stations
- Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, 2.9 km
- Dakar → Yoff8 km · quickest by road, 20 min · $1–1.5
- Banjul (Yundum) → Yoff181 km · quickest by road, 6h 44m · $28–38
- Bissau → Yoff380 km · quickest by air, 6h 49m · $270–400
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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 Yoff
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 Yoff. 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).
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Next door to Yoff
Yoff is 7 km from Guédiawaye, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cambérènedistrict of Dakar, Senegal3.9 km
- Sicap-Libertédistrict of Dakar, Senegal4.1 km
- Grand Yoffdistrict of Dakar, Senegal3.2 km
- Parcelles Assainiesdistrict of Dakar, Senegal3.3 km
- Dieuppeul-Derklédistrict of Dakar, Senegal4.5 km
- Ouakamdistrict of Dakar, Senegal5.7 km