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johnsakura Says: Georgetown used to be one of the most important trading cities existing on the river Gambia, and for that, lots of warehouses also existed to put goods when they arived by boat. Georgetown is located on Janjanbureh Island.
johnsakura Says: This is a fire people use to clean their fields, also used to take bad spirits away. Its seems that April is the month to do that because its not very hot yet.
johnsakura Says: This is a way of getting to know a bit of Georgetown's histor. Getting to know the old houses existing on the Island. This is one, close to the Freedom Garden.
johnsakura Says: This is quite interesting to see cos you will not see much music activity both in senegal and gambia. if you're lucky and during holiday seasons they will play lots of music with drums and strange instruments. When we arrived it seemed to be a wedding and people were laying...
johnsakura Says: To go to Georgetown, you have 2 ways. coming from the north bank from Lamin Koto or from the south bank having 100m seprating the Island and the south bank. 1000CFAby law, tourists have to pay boats and ferries in the country not with national currency but with CFA.The...
johnsakura Says: just a street shop on the main Findlay street.
johnsakura Says: This was the head boy of the group of kids. Here he said, come one , pose please. check this out! hahanice shot I say.
johnsakura Says: Look at this smile! they're so cool. After I gave them the money they stayed there with me asking how my life was back in my country, which music I was keen into and all, funny, they cold talk more and have more interesting converstations than the majority of grown ups I've...
johnsakura Says: Here's another pic of the whole bunch of children that stoped me on the street to ask for money to get a soccer ball. They were nice and didnt push me to give them some money. They were maybe the most polite kids I've found in Georgetown.
johnsakura Says: This is one of the guys that asked me for money to buy a soccer ball. I wonder if that was really true. anyway i just gave them 5Delasis so that wasnt that much money. 50D is about 1.5 euros.
johnsakura Says: 20km northwest from Georgetownyou you have Wassu stone circles. This Wassu consists on an important pre historic place in the Gambia, but of course no Stonehenge. This is a circle of stones that seems to date from 1300AD to 750AD by some analisys made to found carbon. It...
johnsakura Says: This house is located right in front of the slave house. It actually has one of the touristic highlights of the town which I didnt go. Its some quind of hole where slaves used to be put in. I didnt want to see that.
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This is the Queen street and this house is very well preserved in order to keep apearance of the past colonial times. Its quite cool i should say. house is...
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The city was known in its colonial times as Georgetown. Only recently it has recovered its original name of Janjanbureh. This city is located on the mainstream of the Gambia river on Janjanbureh...
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