October 20, 2025 - Visa Adventures in Dakar: Navigating Embassies, Customs, and Serendipity

📍 Location

Dakar, Senegal → Mbour, Senegal

📝 Episode Notes

In this episode, it’s business time in Dakar. The day begins with a mission — to secure a visa for Guinea — and quickly becomes an odyssey through embassy relocations, long waits, and chance encounters. From the old embassy address to the new one near the African Renaissance Monument, every step is an exercise in patience and persistence.

Along the way, we meet Daniel from Hungary, a traveling tour guide caught in his own visa delay, and a convoy of six overlanders from xoverland.com, each chasing their own route through West Africa.

After several misdirected visits to customs offices, countless  ...