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you will really burn - even in an extreme overcast day. also the wind gets up each day about 3ish and you can get really shotbalsted on the beach, so if it's Feb- Apr time, move off the beach about that time
Lucas is very happy to meet any visitors to the Gambia and demonstrate his palm tree climbing skills. Lucas is too poor to travel much further than to his homeland of Guinea-Bissau. He loves to hear tales told of other countries over a jar of his palm juice. He'll be happy to take you back to his compound to meet his family. Lucas works very hard for little reward but loves to party when he can, he's an ideal companion for a visit to the local hot spots. His late, older brother's son, Akoli, works most days as Lucas' helper. You can talk to him if Lucas is up one of his trees.
If you can stand tempuratures of between 35 and 40 I reccomend you go on a boat trip on the river Gambia. You start off at the docks where 2 mins after you get going, you are in a ship graveyard which is really earriee. They take you up the river which is so wide you would think that you are out at sea coz you can't see either bank. You will get to a place where they stop the boat and take you to a "meseum" which is a bungalow with all the walls painted with pictures of the slave trade. then you go to a small market where the locals try to flog you wooden carvings for rediculous prices. You get back on the boat and the next stop is a small island in the middle of the river where they kept the slaves before loading them onto the ships to go work in the western cottern fields. I think they said that the island had shrunk and it only a 10th its origional size. On the way back you have the...
I have to say i wasnt that fussed about going to see Charlie the croc and his friends. It is a bit strange though actually stroking a croc for real!! just do it quick thats my tip!! not much to see there apart from the obvious, lots of crocs!! you pay a small fee of about 50D and they do try to grab you on the way out (the staff that is!) to make a small donation for the crocs, saving for the christmas party for them i suppose!!! I nearly forgot there is a museum before you enter, it gives an insight into the old local traditions etc.......
Well perhaps not a hug exactly but after reading other VT'rs comments on Katchikally crocodile pool I was very keen to see it and BOY!!! was it an eye opener. At one time my wife was standing, surounded by no less than six crocodiles none less than 1.5 metres in length, when one of over two metres climbed out of the pool and wandered into the undergrowth passing my wife by less than a metre. I had to stand well back in order to take the photographs, unfortunately due to camera shake some of the pictures haven't come out very well. (Perhaps this is a good time to remind folk to ensure their holiday insurance is in order.) Unfortunatlly, we didn't see "Charley" but I did get a picture of two big crocodiles sunning themselves, and as we left I photographed a big one in the bushes at the far end of the pool. I would estimate this beast to be in the region of 3.5 metres in length but my wife...
Between the Bintan Bolong in the south and the Gambia River in the north starts a varied landscape of mangroves, creeks, saltpans, tidal flats, but also of dry woodland savanna. In this area along the highway you find the Kiang West National Park, established in 1987. The park is about 110 KM2 and you can find here almost all the animal species of the country. Along the highway south of the park we saw also this surreal landscape of trunks in the wetlands.
The beach area between Fajara and Kotu Point is very scenic, especially the surrounding area just behinbd the beach. South of the Kotu beach this river streams into the ocean. The views at the river are very nice because of lots of green and palmtrees and the reflections in the water.
The first time we arrived in Gambia, we were surprised by a very warm welcome at the Yundum International airport. A group young men and women were dancing in colourfull clothes at the platform at our arrival.It was a wonderful start of our first one week stay in this country.
Ther is not much of the original forest remaining in the Gambia, but what remains is home to a surprisingly large array of rare birds and other wildlife. Some of the main parks worth a visit -- as well as a list of birds you can see:ABUKO * Giant kingfishers * Western blue-bill * Green crested boraco * Violet boracoBANTANG * Bateleur eagle * Short-toed eagle * Dark chanting goshawk * Grasshopper buzzard * Wahlberg's eagle * Rufus crown rollerBRUFUT WOODS * Verreaux's eagle owl * Brown backed woodpecker * Klaas cuckoo * Striped kingfisher * Green fruit pigeon * Violet barbet brubru * Whistling cisticolaMARAKISSA * White crested helmet shrike * Red shoulder cuckoo shrike * Grey headed bush shrike * White-backed vultureKAMALO CORNER, ("SHIPS GRAVEYARD") * Green wood hoopoe * Yellow throated leaflove * Black cap babbler * Purple heron * Red shank * Wattle plover * Spur wing ploverKOTU STREAM...
I'ts worth taking the time to listen to the local lads,Malik became a good freind to us in the time we were in Gambia, taking us to visit various places we would not have visited had we been on our own
Kombo Beach Hotel Banjul
1 Review and 330 Opinions The Kombo Beach is the only hotel we have been to in The Gambia, we stayed here the first time and...
Kairaba Beach Hotel Kololi
2 Reviews and 282 Opinions well such an extraordinarily well run venue in Gambia. German influence, very efficient. What...
Sheraton Gambia Hotel Resort & Spa Serekunda
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