Georgetown Things to Do

You can go to the river bank and watch the north bank in the Lamin Koto side. This river is very beautiful and is full of hippos. you can ask people to take you there paying a bit of money you will agree BEFORE YOU GO! remember that. also remember the majority of the youngters that make their living as guides are only interested in smoking drug so also be careful.

If you're coming Souht from senegal and like me, the first full time stop was in Georgetown, you'll enjoy seeing how do local people live and socialize each other. This is the main street Finlay street. You have many sops where you can buy almost everything.
On the picture is the part of the city almost near the Slave House, close to the police station.

This worshop is located on Finlay street and its a iron shop where you have Sami the woner working and melting iron. Its quite interesting and nice to see how he has his shop painted in cheerful colours like the ones you can see on the picture.

This is the gate of the freedom garden. There are lots of children that come from schools to visit the garden and learn about their city's or country history. to learn how their ancestres got free from slavery and all.

This is for sure the most cheerful and beautiful house in the whole island of janjanbureh. You have this house painted in sky pattern, looking so bright and nice on the dirt roads and gree vegetation around the area.

People say this was the biggest slave house in upper river bank, but it seems that this now big roofless barn was probably no such thing, more likely like a warehouse for goods to be taken down and up the river.

This seems to be the city most important monument to locals. This is the garden that represents the people's freedom from colonial times. You have a tree on the centre of the garden that simbolizes the growing life as free people.

The city is very cheerfull. Houses are always painted in very coloured colours which will give you relax feeling and hapiness. Altouhg peopl dont seem to be as happy as the colour on their houses.
This house on the picture is located on the main street of findlay street.