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Serekunda Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Serekunda, Gambia
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buguma nibi
... 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
... 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 ...
nungi fi...but not exactly jama rek
... , 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 ...
A New Country
... 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
... to the wonderful oasis of a Shell station and an ATM. Hurray! Our financial woes at bay, we caught a cab to a brick factory in Serekunda. It was more a bunch of people chillin' outside with batiks than a factory, and we're not sure we were in the right ...
Travel
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
... 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 ...
Introduction Reading for Day 4
... 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
... had decided Monday afternoon, having completed our first days of classes and generally feeling like experienced tubabs, to go to the Serekunda market by ourselves for some fabric. Initially the experience was a relatively smooth one, but as we took longer ...
Past the smiles...out and about in the Gambia
... children running alongside you shouting adorable hellos. Che Guevera motorcycled through South America to tour a culture...biking 10-15 miles from Serekunda can't be that much different, can it? Now, resting after the ride, I am a bit sunburnt and tired, ...
Happy Koriteh
... only the first day of Koriteh. The next day had to start a little slower, as one might expect, but a trip to the Serekunda market, where people are often at their pushiest and shortest (this was where I was conned, after all), proved that people really ...
the makings of a feminist
... run into at the university, sometimes seem very interested in progressive, Western ideas, and will happily give examples of Gambia embracing these. This might make Westerners more comfortable here, but we would be stupid, even in a university classroom, ...
Stressful departure from Gambia
... our incident at Banjul with disgust and everyone is concerned asking more details and apologising dearly. Despite this negative experience, the Gambia makes an incredible effort to improve itself and its people have an incredible heart. It does have its ...
Tropical thunderstorm and some 4x4 in deep puddles
... ive seen in the wild. I hand-wash some of our clothes in the morning to prepare for the deep depths of the Jungle in Gambia. Its off to Georgetown, also know as (Jangjang-bureh) about ¾ of the way into the country. Its still the wet season and thus its ...
My last few days in the gambia
... in almost every conversation. We definately made the best of our time together, plenty of beach times, dinners(best indian in the gambia!), shopping for friends and family, getting to sit in on one of jori's classes, packing, and writing each other ...
THE GAMBIA!
Here i am... yeah im here. Crazy when i think that 24hours ago, i was in london. the flight was terrible... imagine a southwest plane colored in "first choice airlines". This plane has to be from the 80s. I was sat right next to the bathroom and i ...
Serekunda.... But not for long
... I will be for the next 7days. Hope all is well, With LOVE! The next seven days: Jori and i will be leaving from Serekunda early AM tomorrow(tuesday 18th), Were traveling by bush taxi east to Georgetown (JangJang-bureh). Were trying to get there around ...
aus dem naehkaetzchen
... pro Tag reinbutter, sonst waere ich eventuell nich so willkommen, ich hab da n bisschen eingebautes misstrauen... Fuer Ueberraschungen ist Gambia immer gut. Die erste Nacht hier habe ich in einem zimmer verbracht in welchem ich auf einer kleinen Matratze ...
The Smiling Coast
Though Banjul is the capital, Serrekunda is the largest city in Gambia. It is a very short, 13 dalasi taxi ride from Banjul. We visited the batik factory, but it wasn't exactly an operational factory. Women stood outside a vacant ...
racking my memories
serakunda http://www.senegambiahotel.com/ Bwiam wrestling - Serrekunda East Park Arena Banjul Julbru Abuko Nature Reserve - lamin Brikama Wood Carving Centre ...
"Home" - Okay fine, Serekunda
... to my own home. Jori's words: The next day we finished off the last five hours of the trip heading back home to Serekunda. We stopped at a famous wood-carver's market in Brikama, where Justin picked up some nice keep-sake's and walked back into ...
DIVING INTO DAKAR
St Louis saw us off in style...stormy style...it was extremely impressive but kept us up all night until our departure to Dakar. Didn't quite get that our bus LEFT in 4 hours instead of TAKING for hours and so it made for an extra looooong slog to the ...
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