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grets Says: No visit to the Gambia is complete without seeing a local school. The children looked very sweet in their royal blue uniforms. The classroom was very basic, as were all the facilities. There were little pigs running around the ground. We had brought a whole bag of...
grets Says: We stopped to see the collection of the locally rpoduced palm wine in a small village outside Serekunda. We all had tasters from the same plastic mug - I wonder how hygenic that was? It tasted a little like like a rough brandy - not unpleasant. The palm wine is known locally...
grets Says: The market in Serrekunda, like many other West African cities, is a colourful and noisy affair. Here, away from the tourist areas, the items on sale are your everyday useful things, food, kitchen utensils, clothes etc.
grets Says: One of the things that struck me most about Serekunda, was the crowds that thronged through the streets. One amusing little anecdote was when we stopped for a while in the street, and while we were waiting for the driver to return from his errand, the side door of the mini...
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A great mode of transport, with the straw roof keeping the sun off, the open sides allowing for better visibility and to keep cool breezes coming in. It was remarkably comfortable, albeait a little difficult to get into.
Written Jan 26, 2005
grets Says: We stopped in Serekunda on the way inland and later into Senegal, so this seemed a good place to change money into Senegales currency. Our guide, Urbain, just called someone over, who walked across with a bag full of money. Black market. It wouldn't have worked in England,...
grets Says: Woman will walk for miles to fect water at a well, carrying the bucket elegantly on their head as they walk, without spilling a drop.
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If you want to visit some of the more remote villages, I would suggest that you make a point of using a four-wheel-drive, as this is the normal state of the roads outside the main cities.
Written Jan 26, 2005
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Everywhere we went today the children were shouting and waving and when we actually stopped, they crowded around us asking for pens, sweets and wanting to give us their address. I took a couple of addresses at the palm wine place, and David was particularly taken with "his" little girl, called Amy.
Everywhere we went the children wanted to hold your hand. "Hello my friend" "What's your name?" "Is this your first time to Gambia?" etc etc etc.
Written Jan 26, 2005
hannette Says: People may invite you to have tea or have dinner at their house.If you feel like doing it, don't hesitate.
grets Says: With help from various charities and the government, some of the villages do have much more modern facilities for collecting water. This well, which was right in the middle of the main road through the village, takes away a lot of the backbraking work of hauling water with a...
grets Says: Out in the coutryside, the villages are small and poor, with no running water or electricity. Despite this obvious hardship, the people are always very friendly and welcoming, especially the children.
grets Says: Most of the people in this area are subsidence farmer, tending to their small vegetable plots, such as this one here where aubergine is growing.
grets Says: With help from various charities and the government, some of the villages do have much more modern facilities for collecting water. This well, which was right in the middle of the main road through the village, takes away a lot of the backbraking work of hauling water with a...
grets Says: First we stopped to look at a very traditional well, where the women haul up buckets of water for drinking and irrigation of their vegetable gardens. I had a go myself at pulling up the buckets - it was very hard work, as the well is about 10m deep.
grets Says: The sunsets all over the Gambia and the Senegal were very diffused and delicate rather than spectacular, as a result of the amount of dust particles hanging in the air.
grets Says: I love the brightly coloured and flamboyant outfites that the women wear in this part of the world. They look so striking and so much more confident that western women do.
The Gambia's second city, Serekunda has a greater population than Banjul. An estimated 100,000 people live here, and the crowds throng through the streets. We didn't spend any great amount of time......
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