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I got lost in a national park in Senegal for a few days once. My map made it seem like there were villages all over the place, but each one I came to was just an intersection of an abandoned dirt road built by the French during colonial times.
Eventually I stopped following roads and started to follow the river so I had an unlimited supply of water. Luckily I had enough food to survive for many days.
I stumbled on a ranger station at the end of the 4th day. The rangers weren't happy to see me as tourists aren't allowed to be there there without a guide. They told me there were lions all over the park and I was lucky. I'm not sure if that's true, as I was so smelly and loud as I crashed through the bush, any half-competent lion would have found me. But they were chill dudes, gave me food, let me stay the night, and drove me back to the highway on their motorbike.
Pic related, the river
