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The area of Kiang West National Park is approximately 110 km2 and one of the most important wildlife areas in The Gambia. It was established as a national park in 1987. In the mangrove creeks, the manatee and the Nile crocodile occur. In the mangrove forests and tidal flats you can see clawless otter, marsh mongoose and Sitatunga and sometimes you can spot Roan antelopes. The park is situated in Lower River Division in the Kiang West District. Leave a Comment
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 Tendaba Bush Camp by JustinJansen
From here some good patches of Savannah Woodland can be visited south of Tendaba.
Also from the bush camp several creeks on the opposite bank of the river can be visited. Good chances for birdwatching and seeing crocodiles. We even found fresh tracks of Spotted Hyena. Leave a Comment
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 The Kingfisher by Wafro
Inside the reserve you'll find an excellent hideout (next to a pool), where you can observe a large variety of birds.
There're also semi-professional ornithologists, who will offer you their services, for a small fee.
Don't forget your binoculars and camera. Leave a Comment
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 Abuko N.R. - The Gambia by Wafro
Abuko Reserve lies on the right side of the tarmac road from Banjul to Yundum Airport. Leave a Comment
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 Yundum 27 march 2005 by JustinJansen
This is an intresthing site where behind and south of the Yundum Agricultural College. A huge variation of tracks is running thru a variation of habitats. It concist of low scrub with scattered Acacia's. In december a large part of the vegetation is in flower and this location looks by then superb. Leave a Comment
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 Abuko 27 march 2005 by JustinJansen
This is a Nature reserve established in 1967. The area enclosed, altough relativly small, includes a fine example of mature gallery or riverine forest through which runs the Lamin Stream. Such primary forest is now very rare in The Gambia due to clearnace for agriculture, and Abuko provides the most easily accesible example in the country, not far from the hotel area (a 20 minutes drive by taxi). It has remained undisturbed as a water catchment area for many years, and ground water is still extracted by the pumping station near the main road. Surrounding the central forest is more open svannah woodland, and the trail through the reserve passes through both types of habitat.
In the reserve several benches are places on the trail, and a small Animal Orphange is here with some Spotted Hyena's (the lion has escaped in november and was shot)! Leave a Comment
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 The Gambia at Tendaba by JustinJansen
This great river rises in the Futa Jallon highlands in the Republic of Guinea to it's mouth in the Atlantic Ocean. And crosses several countrie's! Leave a Comment
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 Bangsang Quarry by JustinJansen
This is the only Red-throated Bea-eater colony in The Gambia and is between Tendaba and Basse! Leave a Comment
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 Termite Mound north bank by JustinJansen
They can be up to 2 metres as we recorded them!
It is a real welcome snack for many birdspecies, and they clean up the scrub! Leave a Comment
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 Baobab Tree by JustinJansen
Baobabs may be the oldest life forms on the African continent, and many of the specimens still standing today have certainly been around since the birth of Christ; others for far longer. Carbon-dating experiments in the Zambezi Valley have calculated that trees with a trunk diameter of five metres were over 1000 years of age, and similar experiments elsewhere have dated trees at over 3000 years. Girth measurements themselves are not reliable estimates of a particular tree's age, as the conditions under which it has grown - and the climatic fluctuations of the centuries - strongly affect this.
In Gambia you can find them across the whole country. And also many in village's for shelter they let them stay there. Leave a Comment
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