Kuntaur Travel Guide

 johnsakura Says:  This is the way to the town centre. Is strange how its so tiny and hidden. I passes with the car on this tiny street and almost didnt make it. I was actually getting worried about it, but all went well. When I ifnally got to the mango tree you can see on the picture, I just... 

 johnsakura Says:  There are so many mango trees in Gambia. You'll find them everywhrere you go. Its a tropical country. very good for mosquitoes remember take your malaria programe.This is on the town centre and suuaalyhas a couple of ladies selling mangoes at a really cheap price. 

 johnsakura Says:  You can just walk on the town. This is a very tiny town and relaxed one. You have nothing much going on and you'll see everyone chiling, eating mangoes and getting a bit of shade on the mango trees.on the picture you have the street where almost all the grociery stores are... 

 johnsakura Says:  On my way to the city limits heading Kerewan I found this boy that saw me and said, hey man stop. picture please. hahaha, great people. look at him! I'm bad! 

 johnsakura Says:  I think you already saw this tip on one of my other pages of west africa. Goats are everywhere, you cant just imagine streets without them. 

 johnsakura Says:  This is a typical crop in the region. Water is used a a necessary way of growing things like corn and rice.This is a beautiful landscape, connecting the blue sky along with those palm trees in the horizont and the green from the crop on the water. 

 johnsakura Says:  This is the upper basic school of the town. In the morning you can see children runing to attend classes. Gambia is pretty well educated and every single town has a school and all the basic needs like water and medical assistance. 

 johnsakura Says:  Black people just love to pose. When they know they look good, they just dont have any problems admiting: I am beautiful!! attitude is what you need in life to go forward. This is on the way to the city limits heading Kerewan. Look at the way this boy just loves to be on the... 

 johnsakura Says:  This is the entrance of the town coming from Georgetown, right after the crops with water canals. 

 johnsakura Says:  This is a picture of the irrigation techiques used in Kuntaur to provide people with good crops and good products. This islocated in the direction of Georgetown. 

 johnsakura Says:  You can go for a walk outside the city limits and try to get some mangoes out of the trees. I think people will try to sell them to you, but you really want you can pick them of the trees. 

 johnsakura Says:  Really close to Kuntaur you have Wassu.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 seems that before the stones... 

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 johnsakura Says:  This is a scene of Kuntaur heading out of the town, after the small river that you can see on one of my other tips. 

 johnsakura Says:  another picture of the crops before the entrance to the town. you have maybe one km of crops before you get in the city entrance. this crops and fileds give job to many of the people in town. 

 johnsakura Says:  this is local craft to make fences for their houses. it looks great with those palm trees after the fence. very tropical indeed. During the night you cant almost sleep due to the noise monkeys do during the night and also in the early morning. sound of monkeys and mangoes.