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Thies & the Interior

Pilgrimage city of Touba, the sacred lake of Lac Rose, and the Senegalese heartland beyond the coast

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Touba

Holy city of the Mouride brotherhood crowned by West Africa's largest mosque

Lac Rose

The legendary pink lake whose salt-saturated waters glow rose under the Sahelian sun

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Experience the Grand Magal Pilgrimage

Join three million Mouride faithful in the most spectacular religious gathering in West Africa.

Event
$Challenging
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Enter the Great Mosque of Touba

Stand in awe before West Africa's largest mosque, the spiritual heart of the Mouride brotherhood.

Landmark
FreeEasy
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Float in the Pink Waters of Lac Retba

Wade into the rose-tinted salt lake where the water is denser than the Dead Sea.

Nature
$Easy
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Taste Cafe Touba in the Holy City

Sip the spiced coffee drink unique to Senegal — pepper-infused and sweetened — at its spiritual birthplace.

Food
$Easy
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Eat Grilled Tilapia at the Salt Pyramids

Feast on charcoal-grilled lake fish beside the towering white salt mountains harvested from the pink water.

Food
$Easy
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Stand at the Former Finish Line of the Paris-Dakar Rally

Visit the monument marking where the world's most grueling motorsport race ended at the edge of a pink lake.

Landmark
FreeEasy