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Although the beaches are quite beautiful, it's probably not the main reason to travel to Gambia. Plenty of other tropical places to check out. Moreover, the beaches are actively used by fisherman, which might be a little disconcerting to some. Equally troublesome might be the quite active crocodile life on local beaches!
The Gambia may be a developing tourist destination, but away from this, it is still very basic. No matter how much the children beg for money, it is best not to give it to them, it only makes things even more unequal, as you can not give to all 30 swarming around you! It is best to give to organisations, such as schools or churches, or provide the children with pens and paper, this helps everyone in the long run.
At many places in front of the houses you will see these benches of stone, mostly made as a part of the wall or fence.In Ker Serigne we saw a lot of those benches. These benches were often social gathering points for the neighbourhood.
I was always very surprised to see so many broken cars everywhere along the roads and the streets. It looks like nobody cares sbout this.In front of the workshop in Ker Serigne I saw this one. Maybe it was allready there for months, even years.
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.
Everywhere along the mainroads we saw a lot of billboards with advertisements for all kind of products.In the centre of Serrekunda we saw this huge billboard along the mainroad, promoting the Gambian president, saying `Jammeh for your future´.
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.
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.
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.
At many places in the Gambia we saw fire wood for sale. But nowhere I saw so much firewood along the street as in front of the local bakery in Ker Serigne.Anyway the people of the bakery didn't have to go a long way to buy their fire wood.
Kombo Beach Hotel Banjul
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