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Private chauffeur
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    • JustinJansen
  • Updated By JustinJansen on March 13, 2005
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    • The roads - The Gambia
    The roads
    by JustinJansen
    Tourist taxis can be found outside all the main hotels. As you find in front of Senegambia ll prices are fixed, but once outside the depot you can negociate about the price (but everything is real well controlled). They are mostly expensive so advisable for a trip inland is to arrange a private drive via well know oragnisations like Crocdile Safaris and Black & white enterprises, via your hotel.

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    Buses
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    • JustinJansen
  • By JustinJansen on March 13, 2005
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    • somewhere at the North Bank - The Gambia
    somewhere at the North Bank
    by JustinJansen
    Buses are operated by GPTC (Gambia Public Transport Corporation) and run on a limited number of routes, linking Banjul with Soma, Basse, Serekunda, Bakau, Tanji and Gunjur and running on the North Bank from Barra to the Senegalese frontier and to Georgetown via Kerewan and Farafenni. There are bus stops at intervals along the routes but buses are often full. The best way to make sure of a seat on an outward journey is to board at the Banjul terminus which is located in Cotton Street, at the end of the Bund Road.

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    Car hire
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  • By JustinJansen on March 13, 2005
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    • Somewhere at the North Bank - The Gambia
    Somewhere at the North Bank
    by JustinJansen
    Self-drive is not recommend as road are mainly in bad state. And a private driver via a tour compagny is strongly advised by me.
    If you decided to drive youre own you can hire cars Hertz near the Senegambia hotel.
    But some people we met and hired a car had loads of trouble with them! Including broken once they had to left behind!

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    Bush Taxi
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    • JustinJansen
  • Updated By JustinJansen on March 13, 2005
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    • The roads at the North Bank - The Gambia
    The roads at the North
    Bank
    by JustinJansen
    Once you have masterd the art of catching one, you will find that bush taxis, known locally as "tankatanks", are by far the cheapest and most convenient way to getting around. Like tourist taxis they have yellow numberplates, but there al similarity ends. Bush taxis operate on fixed routes and frequently lack such inessential luxeries as driving mirrors, door-handles, shock-absorbers and so on (like most taxis too....).
    Cars operate on the shorter routes and minibuses ore converted pickups on the longer and more popular ones. They cost only a few dalasis and pick up people anywhere during the journey.
    Serakunda is a good start for a bush taxi (leave outside the tourist area as most drivers ignore tourist as they want to avoid conflicts with the local taxi drivers).

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    Ferry at Basse
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    • JustinJansen
  • Updated By JustinJansen on March 20, 2005
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    Ferry at Basse
    by JustinJansen
    Only few people with cars use this ferry. Most people travel by foot and many boats (wooden) go up and down here.
    We visited this site as Egyptian Plover is over here between November and February and we tried our chance but we sadly failed!

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    Boat Banjul to North Bank
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    • JustinJansen
  • Updated By JustinJansen on March 20, 2005
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    • Ferry at Banjul - The Gambia
    Ferry at Banjul
    by JustinJansen
    A crowdy and much used boat to get to the north bank and te get to Banjul. Be aware of pocket picking, as I heard the stories more then once that it happened at the boat trip.
    Also be aware of photographing here as close by is a military base where it is not allowed to take photographs!

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    Flat tyre
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    • sachara
  • Updated By sachara on February 10, 2005
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    flat tyre
    by sachara
    Finally after 5 days we started our trip. First we had to drive to the east to visit the Niokolo Koba Park in Senegal and to continue our journey to Mali. We were very excited.

    Within ten minutes after our departure we had the first problem with our car ......a flat tyre.

    It was the one we bought in Serrekunda the day before.

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    Soma, looking for a workshop to repair our tyre
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    Soma
    by sachara
    After our first night in Soma, the first thing to do the next morning was to find a workshop to repair our flat tyre.

    In the Gambia and most West African countries that will be never a problem, because every town or village has many workshops. So we find quite easy a workshop, recognisable by the many tyres along the road.

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    We lost our shock absorber
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    • sachara
  • Updated By sachara on February 10, 2005
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    • The Gambia, main road to the east - The Gambia
    The Gambia, main road to the
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    by sachara
    After the flat tyre at the first day we lost also the shock absorber of our Toyota. It was the one, which was repaired in the local workshop in Ker Serigne the week before.

    What we didn't know yet this first day, that this was only the start of a lot of technical and mechanical problems with the cars during our transsahara trip.

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    Ker Serigne, preparing and repairing the cars
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    • sachara
  • Updated By sachara on February 10, 2005
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    • Ker Serigne, local workshop - The Gambia
    Ker Serigne, local workshop
    by sachara
    Before we could leave for our transsahara trip, the two 4WDs had to have a check up.

    In Ker Serigne was a local workshop. Every time we thought the cars were fixed, it turned out there was a new technical problem.

    Finally we had a delay of almost four days before we could start our overland trip.

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