{"id":221558,"date":"2020-08-28T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/countries\/senegal"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:24:27","slug":"senegal","status":"publish","type":"countries","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/africa\/senegal","title":{"rendered":"Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Africa close by!<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Senegal<\/strong> , a sun-drenched holiday destination on the African west coast, is still unknown to many (Dutch) tourists. It is an ideal destination for a short, varied trip to Africa. On the coast lies the African Riviera, including fashionable seaside resorts and picturesque fishing villages on elongated, quiet beaches. Senegal is home to world-class national parks. Take <strong>Djoudj<\/strong> &#8211; one of the three most important bird sanctuaries on earth &#8211; or <strong>Niokolo-Koba<\/strong> with its savannas unique to West African standards and populated by nearly a hundred species of mammals including lions, leopards and elephants. Don&#8217;t forget the <strong>Bassari<\/strong> , a colorful tribe that still lives as it did centuries ago, the former slave island of <strong>Ile de Gor\u00e9e<\/strong> , a World Heritage Site, and the colonial <strong>Saint-Louis<\/strong> with its regattas and jazz festival that became the largest in Africa. Add to this the bustling capital <strong>Dakar<\/strong> with markets, museums and music bars, an ever-friendly population and the omnipresent &#8216;teranga&#8217; \u2013 African hospitality \u2013 and we only have one question: what are you waiting for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swinging Beaches and Safaris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58360,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"country":[],"continent_category":[186],"class_list":["post-221558","countries","type-countries","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","continent_category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries\/221558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/countries"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=221558"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=221558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}