Tonight: Yossou NDour live in Ziguinchor stadium

We arrived a few hours ago. Left Abene at around 8:00 am, taking the Gelly-Gelly direct to Ziguinchor. This is the capital of southern Senegal and the largest city in the Cassamance region.

We just learned that Senegal's most famous musician, Yossou NDour, will be performing in the stadium tonight. Entrance will cost us about 1000 CFA each, about $2.

Lunch was delicious -- skewers of an amazingly tasty fish called capitaine, 6 huge juicy chunks each person -- with crispy potatoes and salad -- $10 -- not the cheapest but worth the splurge.

We're economizing with the room, which is one of the only ones we've found with a toilet. The toilet has no handle but there are ways around that. Probably better we leave that part up to your imagination. However, the room, for comparison, is less than our lunch cost, and clean with three beds. Paul estimates it at being approximately 4.5 times better than most of our lodging thus far.

Ziguinchor is relaxed and cheap, just like we expected. None of the rebel activity commonly associated with the region. There's a good possibility we'll go fishing tomorrow.