Specific Saloum Villages Architecture Of Walls Buit With Shells - Mar Lodj, Senegal

Shells are an abundant resource in all coastal Senegal and especially in Saloum river delta. Some islands are only made of shells (meaning that the ground itself is made of shells), like Fadiouth Island. However even on sand and earth ground, shells can be useful, just as shows the photo here: concrete is made of cement, sand, and shell. Without cement, traditional banco mixes sand and earth before sun baking: in these regions, shell was and is still very often added in this mix.
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Les amas coquillers sont très fréquents sur tout le littoral, mais plus encore dans la mangrove, où il leur arrive couramment de devenir des îles, comme Fadiouth par exemple. Cependant même en dehors de ces îles ou de ces amas, l'abondance des coquillage est tel qu'ils sont ajoutés au sable et au ciment, ou parfois même encore au sable et à la terre pour former des briques qui cuisent au soleil.

(By Jean Marc Demol)

www.saly-travel.com

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Taken in: Sénégal / Fatick / Fatick (show map)

Taken on: January 25, 2012

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