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Guédiawaye
Town in Dakar Region, Senegal

Guédiawaye

Guédiawaye is a city in the Guédiawaye Department of the Dakar Region of Senegal.

Plan a trip to Guédiawaye→From Banjul (Yundum)

Lying on the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast of Dakar city centre, in 2013 it had a population of 329,659. Until the mid-2000s, the département was part of Pikine.

How locals move

Getting around Guédiawaye the local way

  • 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).
  • Go nextNegotiate a fair price with a guide, and remember that once you get into the Delta, it's difficult and expensive to get around any way besides by pirogue.
  • Go nextThe overnight ferry from Dakar to Ziguinchor is affordable and comfortable.
  • Go nextDetails on the ferry: The boat leaves from Dakar on Tuesdays and Fridays at 20:00 and from Zig on Thursdays and Sundays at 15:00, arriving 15–17 hours later.

From Wikivoyage: Dakar, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Issiaga0 (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.