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The Gambia Local Customs

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	Exchanging addresses Tip Rating:

Updated By Wafro on June 26, 2004

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by Wafro

Many Gambian people also wants to travel like you do, but they mostly don’t have the opportunity to do it.
It’s difficult to arrange a visa and it’s very expensive for them.
They’ll probably stay the African continent for the rest of there life.
So when they like to exchange ideas and addresses, you should always be honest.
But don’t be cruel or arrogant.

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	Local religions Tip Rating:

Updated By JustinJansen on April 3, 2005

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Western Banded Snake Eagle

by JustinJansen

The largest ammount of people is The Gambia is Muslim, and they have there own prescriptions. Many tourist get to The Gambia and behave like they are at home. But please people accept that as you want it in you're home country intergrade in the community. Keep youre T-shirts on when walking on the streets, ask people polite when you order something in a restaurant, just behave. The most tourist I saw where behaving theirself like animals!

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	Collecting and burning garbage Tip Rating:

Updated By sachara on February 10, 2005

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garbage

by sachara

From the Villa Transsahara, the house in Ker Serigne where we lived, we brought our garbage ourselves to a place where they collect and burn the garbage. It was about 20 minutes from the house.

I don't know how the system works here. They told us, that only non-Gambians brought their garbage here themselves.

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	African dog Tip Rating:

Updated By sachara on February 10, 2005

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permanent inhabitant of Villa
Transsahara

by sachara, 1 more photos

In Africa every compound has its own watchdog. So Villla Transsahara has also its own dog with the Dutch name Piebe !

It was a lovely and social dog, very happy when there were people around in the house. But we saw Piebe also walking around in the village together with the other dogs.

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	Banjul, tailor Tip Rating:

Updated By sachara on February 10, 2005

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tailor in Banjul

by sachara, 1 more photos

Descending one of the local buses in Ker Serigne, my trousers teared. There was a tear of almost 40 cm in it.

Because it was one of my favourite trousers and I brought only two pairs, I decided to bring these trousers to a local tailor.

In Banjul I found a tailor in the same street where we had to arrange the insurance for our cars. For less than 40 eurocents this friendly man repaired it perfectly ! I was very satisfied. So was he, because he could keep the change.

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	Banjul, garbage in the streets Tip Rating:

Updated By sachara on February 10, 2005

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Banjul

by sachara

When we were in downtown Banjul we strolled around in the streets. Some of them were very lively with a lot of colourful streetstalls.

We were very surprised to see all these huge heaps of garbage everywhere along the streets and wondered, if somebody would come to collect it or not.

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	Respect to the chief Tip Rating:

By David&Pauline on May 23, 2003

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Kotu celebration day

by David&Pauline

We visited Kotu township at the same time as President Jammeh was showing off power station to other African leaders. The power station dominates the township yet most of the townsfolk can't afford to get connected. Nonetheless, they made the president's visit as an excuse for a party and turned out in their best. We made the mistake of making a joke about that huge cannon that follows Mr. Jammeh around, everyone thought it disrespectful. Lucas wouldn't have a word said against him, as Mr. Jammeh is a Jola like him, the loyalty to the tribal chief is still very strong. Most of the Mandinka we spoke to didn't speak so highly of their president.

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	Ker Serigne. local bakery Tip Rating:

Updated By sachara on February 10, 2005

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Ker Serigne, local bakery

by sachara,
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During our stay in the Villa Transsahara in Ker Serigne, we often went to the local bakery in the village nearby with our pickup to have fresh bread for our breakfast.

And of course we could have a look in the bakery and see how the bread was prepared, before it went into the ofen.

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	Local Agriculture Tip Rating:

Updated By traveldave on February 9, 2007

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by traveldave

About 80 percent of Gambia's population relies on local agriculture. The land surrounding every village is made up of small plots dedicated to the growing of crops. Each of these food plots is owned by one family, and range in size from 12 to 22 acres (five to nine hectares). The main crops include millet, manioc, corn, beans, eggplant, and bitter tomato (a type of hot pepper). In addition, many people grow peanuts as a cash crop to bring in a little extra money.

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	Visit a local family Tip Rating:

By johanl on November 11, 2002

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Just great

by johanl

When getting in touch with the locals, try to visit one of the families or one of the many projects that are sponsored mostly by european organisations or individuals.
It is really interesting and one can contribute to these initiatives and learn to know this country from another point of view.

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