Ingeli Waterfalls

Last Sunday Zach and Alan, two other volunteers, came down to make a trip over to the Ingeli waterfalls. Those falls are located on the boarder of Guinea and Senegal 14k down past where my town is, they were also supposed to be much more amazing than the Dindefelo waterfalls. We met up in Dindefelo and continued on down through Pellel (my village). The ride was fun and despite the fact that we had to ford a couple rivers, it was beautiful with the mountain ridge on our side along the way. We finally got to the site of the falls in the late afternoon and met up with Frank and Meera who came down from the other side of the region. Before it got dark we went swimming in the falls. These were really beautiful and fun to swim in because there were so many different levels of pools and cascades. We got back and set up our camp, built a fire and cooked a surprisingly delicious dinner. The five of us then managed to cram into two tiny little tents, which was fine while we could keep the door open for air….but then the rain came, and there was a lot of it, all through until the morning. I wound up getting a little wet on the side of the tent but it was actually slightly refreshing. In addition to making our morning fire a little more difficult to get started, the waterfall was roaring. I finally took some pictures at that point (you can see them below) but the falls were so different from the day before when it was much calmer. Either way we decided to go swimming again, which was pretty ridiculous considering the amount of water flowing through. In the end the sky cleared up and it wound up being a beautiful to go swimming, break down camp, and bike back home.

The morning after when the water was really coming down

On a side note, I’ll be back in the Thies region for IST (in-service-training) starting next week, so I’ll hopefully be able to post a bit more often and regularly then. With the better internet there (our router at the regional house got fried by a recent lightening strike) I'll get up the rest of the recent photos, along with a post about my recent mosquito net distribution in Pellel