Travel Guides

No authority we can reach publishes accessibility information for Senegal. Here is what the general advice implies, and where it stops.

The painted minibuses are the emblem of Dakar and the FCDO says plainly that many of them are not roadworthy. Both things are true.

The bank that prints the money is in Dakar and seven other countries use it too. Carry cash: ATMs are thin outside the capital and run dry inside it.

Senegal is a malaria country and the two countries before it in this series are not. That single fact reorganizes the bag.

Senegal is US Level 1, the mildest rating there is. That is the headline. The detail is Dakar street crime, the Mali border and a law passed in March 2026.

No visa for three months, but a passport with six months left on it and proof of where you are staying. Both are checked at the border.

The coast and the modern capital are workable. The archaeological sites are not, and no amount of planning changes loose stone on a hillside.

Trains along the coast, shared taxis everywhere else. The louage is the thing to understand: it leaves when it is full, not when a timetable says.

The dinar is a closed currency and you are not allowed to take it out of the country at all. Keep every exchange receipt from the first day.

Tunisia is compact enough that a single week can take you from a Mediterranean beach to a salt lake in the Sahara. Pack for both.

Tunisia is US Level 2 and has been under a formal state of emergency since 2015. Six areas are named Do Not Travel and none is on a normal itinerary.

Most visitors get 90 days without a visa. Two things catch people out: an unstamped passport, and a tourist tax nobody mentions until check in.