African Renaissance Monument · photo: Richard N Horne, CC BY 4.0

Self-guided walking tour of Dakar

19 sights · Senegal · capital

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Dakar, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

• Museums (6)
• Architecture (6)
• History (5)
• Parks & green (1)
• Squares & streets (1)
• Art & sculpture (1)

3-hour walk past the highlights of Dakar

6 stops · 6.1 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

1. Photo: Bess Sadler, CC BY 2.0
   🚶 17 min walkPalais de la République
2. Photo: Ji-Elle, Public domain
   🚶 10 min walkIFAN Museum of African Arts
3. Photo: No machine-readable author provided, CC BY-SA 3.0
   🚶 4 min walkOur Lady of Victories Cathedral, Dakar
4. Photo: Rignese, CC BY-SA 3.0
   🚶 26 min walkDakar Grand Mosque
5. Photo: PMO Barbados, Public domain
   🚶 13 min walkMuseum of Black Civilizations
6. Photo: Inextre, CC BY-SA 3.0 es
   🚶 6 min walkMonument Demba et Dupont

More well-known sights in Dakar

1. African Renaissance Monument
2. Massalikoul Djinane Mosque
3. Mosquée de la Divinité
4. Henriette-Bathily Women's Museum
5. Historical Museum of Senegal
6. Hann Forest and Zoological Park
7. Place de l'Obélisque
8. Musée de la Mer
9. Daniel Sorano National Theatre
10. Primature
11. Musée Senghor Fondation
12. Porte du Troisième millénaire
13. Church of Saint Charles Borromee (Goree)