THE GARDEN It is thanks to Mame Diop’s love of nature and green fingers that the Ben’Tenier has such a magnificent garden, filled with indigenous species ...

A game of Awalé, another of table-tennis, a stroll around the library in the Round Hut … live at your own pace, accompanied by the song of multi-coloured birds.

Right on the ocean front, the beach is just the other side of the gate. Pirogues arriving after a morning’s fishing, shells poking their noses out of the golden sand …