stopped; and, it is with a touch of nostalgia that you will discover Saint-Louis's narrow streets, flanked by fine houses decked with carved wooden balconies and verandas. It was here in these dwellings that the Saint-Louis bourgeoisie used to live.

Not to be missed, are the governor's palace whose architecture reminds us that it used to be a fort; the Faidherbe bridge, originally designed to traverse the Danube, by a curious twist of fate now connects Saint-Louis to the continent - a sort of jetty linking the former times of the first French town of Africa to the old continent with its ancient traditions.