Wassu Travel Guide

 grets Says:  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... 

 grets Says:  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 journey into the... 

 johnsakura Says:  It seems that no one near by of the locals will know to explaine you the story of those stones, they will only tell you it looks good to leave stones up like that. In the Wassu stone circles you have at least 10 laterite pillars erected arround a tree. 

 johnsakura Says:  It seems to exists more stone monuments besides Wassu in the region ofthe North Bank. I didnt see them but I have the info you can maybe use. On the road to Niani Maru you have stones on each side of the road. At Njai Kunda you have the largest stones of them all, up to ten... 

 johnsakura Says:  Wassu is just the place of thiese stone circles, 20km northwest of Janjanbureh aka Georgetown. This place is quite interesting and you'll feel like you're actually almost in the begining of man kind here...but you're not, not at all, these rocks seems to be 750AD, so, quite... 

 johnsakura Says:  Maybe if you can get a rented bicycle somewhere in Georgetown, offer some money to someone in the hotel to get you a bike, and they will. You can get there only making 20km on dirt road. is ok 40km on a bicycle.You have to get the boat to the north bank.On the picture you... 

 johnsakura Says:  You can get to Wassu from Kuntaur by taxi, maybe paying about D200 round trip.Wassu is located 20km northwest from Georgetown on the north bank of the river gambia.On the picture you have the red higway on the gambian north bank. 

 grets Says:  As you can see from this picture, the clothing in the village was not very new and modern. We had brought with us a huge bag of old clothes that we no longer wanted, and this was very gratefully received in the village. This particular young woman took a shine to David, and...