The Gambia Things to Do

  Looking south down the beach at Jinack...
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  • Looking south down the beach at Jinack island
      Looking south down the beach at Jinack...
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  • Looking north on the beach at Jinack
      Looking north on the beach at Jinack
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  • AT the footy game
      AT the footy game
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  • CRocs at the pool
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  • Sanyang beach
      Sanyang beach
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Katchikally Crocodile Pool

by grets

Along the coast from Banjul at Bakau, the crocodile pool is quite an incerdible experience. The taxi stopped in the middle of the small town and we just asked a couple of local to show us the way to the pool.We saw a couple of small crocodiles off the side of the pool in amongst the vegetation, and were busy taking photographs when one of us decided to look down. Just as well. There, just a foot or so away from our feet, was an enormous croc! OK, we are told that they are tame and used to human visitors, well fed and unlikely to bite you, but a crocodile is still a crocodile. If I had stepped back in my eagerness to take pictures of his small cousins and accidentally landed on his toes, I don't think he would have been too happy! I have never experience crocodiles like this before or since. It really is a MUST when in The Gambia!

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Banjul

by grets

Banjul, previously known as Bathurst, is the capital of The Gambia. It is a small city by Eurpoean standards, with an estimated population of around 80,000 people. Banjul is siutated on an island - St Mary's Island, in the mouth of the River Gambia.One of the highlights of a visit to Banjul is the market. Large and sprawling, the market was a local affair, we did not see any tourist trinkets for sale at all. The goods were mainly fruit and vegetables, meat, household gooda and colthing. Unlike on the coast, the people took very little notice of us, getting on with their daily business as we passed. We did pick up a acouple of young hangers-on towards the end of our stroll around the market, who were proving to be very persistent and rather hard to shake off. We did not see any other white people during our time at the market, making our visit all the more authentic.

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Baobab Trees

by grets

Known as the 'upside down' tree because its bare branches look like roots jetting out into the sky, the baobab tree dominates the landscape in this reagion. A local tale tells that devil himself uprooted the tree and placed it upside down. The baobab is also believed to have magical powers because of its ability to store water in the huge trunk. Other names for the tree includes 'monkey bread tree' from the pulpy nature of the large yellow fruits. Superstition abounds around the baobab tree, and most villages have at least one specimen. There are few trees around with so many uses: The fruit is made into a drink, musical instrumets are fashioned from the bark, the fragrant white flowers are used as decoration during festivals. Leaves are eaten either frsh or dried. Dried leaves are powedered and used for medicinal purposes, said to cure rheumatism and inflammations. The bark is used to...

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Wassu Stone Circles

by grets

All around this area you can find collections of these monuments - still one of Africa's greatest enigma. Around 40 stone circles such as these are found in The Gambia, Senegal and Guinea, and still experts do not agree on their origin.It is belived that they were created by a civilisation maybe 1000 years ago, whose only remains are these circles. Very little is being done to discover the history behind these archaeological finds.The smaller stones placed atop the monoliths are a much later addition, with touist guides encouraging visitors to place a pebble on the top to "make a wish". This has nothing to do with the original site.The circles are believed by many to be burial sites, a theory which was enforced with the discovery of early skeltons in the centre of some of the circles, as well as tools and pottery, items which made have been left with the dead to help them on their...

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Juffureh & Fort James

by lidbit

Learn about the history and legacy of slavery at it's source. Skip the relatives of Kunte Kinte - it's a tourist scam. Instead spend your time and money hiring a pirogue out to the Fort for a wlak around.

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Bijilo Forest Park

by SamuiDean

Small, coastal reserve. Access from Banjul by road. Open all year round. No accommodation available. Animals living in the reserve are not abundant but there are several species of monkey and a wide variety of birds. The monkeys are very tame and will feed out of your hand.The Park officially opens at 8 am, but is often open between 7 am and 7.30 am. The entrance fee was D30 and you need to retain your ticket so that one half can be detached as you leave.

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Beach

by Mum+2kids

We visited a beach by mini bus, which took about 20 mins, (our hotel was directly on the beach) but this was a different area, it was where they smoked fish in a big hut, you could walk round and see, and they had a little market, and as you can see from the picture they are hurding cattle, its a very slow moving place, not rushed at all......There are alot of children here wanting to hold hands etc....theyre very sweet, some as young as 5/6 with there baby brother/sisters, strapped to there back with cloth, whilst there mothers must be working back at home.....take along coins or sweets for them, they are very grateful....... :)

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Crocodile Park

by Mum+2kids

We went to a crocodile park, cant remember what it was called, but your tour rep, will organise it for you, it was great you could actually stroke them, please see my pics below, it is also believed by the locals as being a fertility place, where people having trouble having children go etc.... anyway, 1 we werent trying for a baby, but i felt very sick for weeks after our holiday here, and found out i was 10 weeks pregnant, a lovely suprise but i dont think it had anything to do with this myth do you ???/

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The Katchikally Crocodile Pool

by Wafro

The pool's reptilian residents have since become so tame, that they allow visitors to pet them, and seem to prefer fish to more fleshy meals. The oldest crocodile, named Charlie, is the friendliest, and often spends time in the ancestral home of the Bojang clan, who are now the keepers of the pool.

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Crocodile Park

by PoppyBooth

Down a rameshackled lane, with school kids folloiwng you in awe is a crocodile farm. The croc's roam free and until your following you guide around the pond (occasionally steppping over crocodiles because they are THAT close), you relise that its a once in a lifetime opportunity.ot something your ever going to come across again. Travelling in a group makes it even more fun because your fear and your companions fear, coupled with a laughter of the guide, creates a great Buzz that'll leave you feeling high all day!

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