Gambia Travel Blogs

I'm Famous
Sep 6, 2004

Yey finally my big break Im on the BBC!! well click on this and scroll down to find "Jonathan Chatterton" So I spent one night In Accra and concluded I do in fact hate it, it has so much more than lome in so many ways but the 45 minute traffic jams ...

Hospital visits or hitting real life at 100 mph
Apr 27, 2006 (18 photos)

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Black Mamba surprise - yikes!
Apr 28, 2006 (20 photos)

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Early rise to the southern slither
Apr 23, 2006 (2 photos)

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Lovely lovely offers on the menu
Apr 25, 2006 (3 photos)

... crocodile (export) and blue kingfisher (lite beer). I'm not sure if there are fewer hippos or hippo-beers in Gambia - a shame either way! Impressive stuff that such a small developing country should produce three local beers on a large scale, and ...

Walking into town is the best way to arrive
Apr 29, 2006 (5 photos)

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No bags, time to get some clothes made!
Apr 23, 2006 (4 photos)

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A quick stop on the way, donkeys included
Apr 29, 2006 (20 photos)

Hospitals and bottle stores seem to be the calling of all travellers on rickerty buses. We also found quite a correlation to donkeys and children. The Gambia really is lovely.

buguma nibi
Dec 5, 2007

... workshop and its planning we'd really shared substantial, real benefits with the students in Voice. Our experiences in The Gambia are often frustrating and confusing, and in the often overwhelming swarm of evidence of poverty and lacking public services ...

buguma nibi
Dec 5, 2007

... workshop and its planning we'd really shared substantial, real benefits with the students in Voice. Our experiences in The Gambia are often frustrating and confusing, and in the often overwhelming swarm of evidence of poverty and lacking public services ...

Allgemeines zu Gambia II
Oct 30, 2008

... ist. Wann genau Regen- bzw. Trockenzeit auftreten, ist in Afrika von Region zu Region unterschiedlich. Hier in Gambia - wie im Grossteil Westafrikas - ist das ziemlich klar aufgeteilt: Regenzeit von April bis September, Trockenzeit von Oktober bis Maerz. ...

nungee dem si country bi
Oct 22, 2007 (9 photos)

... few attempts and improvisations, we were able to get the tire back on. I really do think we're all getting used to the Gambia though, because we almost seemed to expect the delay, and just turned it into an opportunity to check out the scenery, lie in the ...

BVAWT003 - GBYD
Sep 13, 2008

GBYD - Banjul International Airport

nungi fi...but not exactly jama rek
Sep 16, 2007

... , black. The night club, like many businesses in the area, is owned by what is a sort of Lebanese refugee elite in the Gambia. From a couple vague comments we've heard, it seems they stand out in the society to a certain extent, which is renowned for its ...

It all started w/ a broken juju: malaria upcountry
Nov 6, 2007

The following will be a shamelessly self-pitying entry. If you want a more objective one move onto number 11. It all started with a broken juju. Gambians believe strongly in Jujus, charm-like accessories that give different benefits to the ...

Allgemeines zu Gambia
Oct 20, 2008

... , wie toll die Fluege von Brussels Airlines nach Afrika sind oder wie ueberzeugt der pseudo-demokratisch regierende Praesident ist, Gambia zu einer oekonomischen Supermacht des 21. Jahrhunderts zu machen (natuerlich...). Der Verkehr in den Staedten ist ...

A New Country
Mar 7, 2006 (3 photos)

... read that Gambian roads were worse than Senegal roads so much so that you would travel in Senegal to get between points in the Gambia. This truth quickly became apparent. Huge potholes forced us to drive half on, half off on the dusty shoulder for much of ...

Mozzies
Mar 8, 2006 (1 photos)

... to pay it. Back at the hotel, a relaxing afternoon ensued with a serious reconnoitering meeting. We were both kinda bummed with Gambia and the impossibility of getting anywhere, and the lack of things to do. We came up with a plan, though it ...

Travel
Mar 7, 2006 (6 photos)

Our tour and travel through the Sine-Saloum Delta began only 40 minutes late this morning. Not bad. Jimmy met us down by the water and saw us into a boat with a driver and French-speaking guide. We made a quick stop about five minutes away from town for ...

Introduction Reading for Day 2
Oct 29, 2007

... after-school job is not typical. If there are no responsibilities to attend to, you have a free afternoon to enjoy, and The Gambia is a great place to while away an afternoon. Younger brothers, sisters, and cousins will be playing in the compound or in the ...

Introduction Reading for Day 4
Oct 31, 2007

... seem a bit like exercises out of a workbook), it was important context for understanding the current form of government... Gambia has a history of centralized rule; it was a province under a couple strong empires, including the Songhai empire. Vassals ...

10 ridiculous things a day
Sep 15, 2007 (15 photos)

... I have these moments. They're better than pictures when it comes to trying to capture time here before it's December and Gambia is just a memory that I'll rant enthusiastically about to anyone who mentions it. But one example of these moments that ...

Past the smiles...out and about in the Gambia
Oct 1, 2007 (47 photos)

... the Child Protection Agency, helping at local schools -- and I'm starting to feel so much more that I'm actually inside The Gambia, that I have a place and a purpose here. And, after a slightly hectic but completely rewarding process of buying a bike in ...

Goodbye, Gambia
Nov 2, 2008

... anfangen. Morgen Mittag geht dann mein Flieger nach Freetown in Sierra Leone. Damit endet also meine Zeit hier in Gambia. War ein verdammt interessanter Monat und eine gute Einfuehrung in den Kontinent. Und wie schnell die vier Wochen vorbeigingen! Es ...

Leybato paradise found
Dec 10, 2006 (4 photos)

... found! We arrived at Fajara beach at 10 o'clock at night, ten hours after we arrived at the other side of the Gambia River. Ten hours of African waiting time, made all the more galling by other tourists bribing and getting ahead of us, all the ...

Ready for senegambia tour!
Nov 3, 2006

Just finished my one week reccie for the forthcoming Senegal and Gambia tour ... phew! First impressions from the aeroplane window is how dry this part of West Africa is; how sprawling and monstrous Dakar (Senegal) appaers out of nowhere (wont be ...

Georgetown
Nov 14, 2008

C etait dure d y arrivée mais j ai reussi apres 2 jours de voyage

Ferrie Gambie
Nov 13, 2008

La Gambie est souvent presentée comme un pays facile. Je l ai trouvé comme etant le pays le plus dure. Et ceci a cause d un mauvais choix de route. D apres ma carte pour aller a Georgetown, la route etait meilleur au Sud et horrible au Nord, en fait c etait ...

Happy Koriteh
Oct 17, 2007 (19 photos)

... restricting any celebration or partying. Towards the middle of the month we'd gotten used to the very subdued atmosphere of Gambia during Ramadan - I'd even been fasting myself for the experience, so it was hard to imagine Gambia any other way. But the ...

Festive Travels 1
Jan 4, 2008 (13 photos)

In trying to make the most of my time, I've tried to use my vacations to travel around a bit and see different places.   Over the Christmas break I went to a very bizarre country. They spoke the same language as I did but much faster and with a ...