Saint-Louis was founded in 1659 and named after the French King Louis XIV in the 1700s, it is the oldest city to be created by Europeans on the western coast of Africa and served as the capital of Senegal from 1872 to 1957. Scooters are available for 10000CFA/Day and bikes for 5000CFA/Day. Located on the corner of Rue Blanchot and Quai Roume on the Island. To see more of Saint-Louis, why not rent a scooter or a bicycle, this is a great way to cover more ground and to explore some places that you might not be able to reach on foot. However, most of the historic city is easily accessible by foot. On the Island of Ndar, there are calesh rides designed for site-seeing tourists. There is a fairly decent "car rapide" public transport system that shouldn't cost more than 100 F CFA for your average stretch. From the garage (gare routiere) to downtown or at night expect to pay 600 F CFA. You can usually count on taxis fares in Saint-Louis to be a solid fixed rate of 500 F CFA. If you have your own car, from Dakar take Route N2 all the way to Saint-Louis. You wait at the station for the car to be full, which means the rest of the passengers are heading for Saint-Louis as well, so it's a direct trip. They leave from the main station (gare routière) in Pikine, just outside of Dakar (also called Baux Marachers). The easiest way to get to Saint-Louis from Dakar is in a sept-place, which is a seven passenger station wagon. There is no train service to Saint-Louis. Also accessible from Saint-Louis are the Parc National des Oiseaux du Djoudj and the Réserve Spéciale de Faune de Guembeul. The Île de N’Dar is linked to the Langue de Barbarie Peninsula via the Pont Mustapha Malick Gaye Bridge, the Langue de Barbarie Peninsula is home to the beautiful beaches of the Hydrobase as well as part of the Parc National de la Langue de Barbarie. The mainland is connected to the historical island which is just 2km long and 400m wide via the Pont Faidherbe Bridge, which was recently reconstructed, completed in November 2011. The city of Saint-Louis is located about 260km north of Dakar on the coast and spreads across the mainland (Sor), Île de N’Dar (the Island), and the Langue de Barbarie Peninsula. Saint-Louis is a city on the Grande Cote in Northern Senegal. He was never seen again.For other places with the same name, see Saint Louis (disambiguation). Then, in December 1936, Mermoz left St-Louis in his sea-plane 'Croix du Sud' to make his twenty-fourth crossing of the Atlantic. Soon they were flying as far as Buenos Aires and even over the Andes to Santiago, Chile. On, a young man called Jean Mermoz took off from St-Louis and headed out across the Atlantic Ocean to make the first successful airmail connection with South America. They became national heroes, with one of them, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, writing bestselling books about his experiences. The pilots flew their fragile planes alone, often through the night, without radio or radar, in all weathers. The overriding obsession of the Hôtel de la Poste is with the 1920s, when St-Louis was the most important town in French colonial Africa and a company called Aeropostale launched a regular mail service from Toulouse to Dakar. After a bit, the Frenchness became almost suffocating, from the check tablecloths to the endless pictures and models of the colon, the caricature of the Frenchman in Africa, complete with pipe and pith helmet. It was unadventurous, but it was easy, pottering around the hotel from bar to restaurant to the Piscine Jardin with its wrought-iron flamingos, or just sitting on my hibiscus-clad balcony watching the majestic Sénégal river sweep beneath the majestic seven-span girder bridge built by Louis Faidherbe, Governor of Senegal, in the 1860s. I've spent the last twenty-four hours in France. Checking progress on my Michelin map in room 219, the same one in which heroic French aviator Jean Mermoz spent the last night of his life.
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