Plage BCEAO

Plage de Yoff

Pretty beach and water, but watch out...sometimes beach is closed to swimming due to rubbish, release of sewage/open defecation, instances of drowning. You can see Yoff Island (Ile de Yoff) off in the distance.

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Getting there: in Yoff borough on north side of Dakar

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