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Pikine
City in Senegal

Pikine

Pikine is a city and the capital of the Pikine department, in the Dakar region in Senegal.

Plan a trip to Pikine→From Banjul (Yundum)

The largest suburb of Senegalese capital Dakar, as of the 2013 Census, it had a population of 1,170,791. It is the second-largest city in Senegal, behind Dakar.

How locals move

Getting around Pikine 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: Wuzyprod (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.