Serekunda, Gambia Travel Blogs

buguma nibi
Dec 4, 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 4, 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 ...

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 ...

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)

... 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 place, ...

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)

... 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 and ...

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

... 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
Oct 17, 2007 (19 photos)

... . They fill the restaurants and supermarkets, spilling out onto the streets. We saw this spectacle on the main street of Serekunda at around 10pm. Literally hundreds and hundreds of small children ran around, swarming us, singing, throwing pop rocks and ...

the makings of a feminist
Oct 8, 2007

... 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, ...

My last few days in the gambia
Mar 27, 2008

... 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 letters ...

THE GAMBIA!
Mar 14, 2008

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
Mar 17, 2008

... 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 5pm. ...

racking my memories
Oct 14, 1996 (11 photos)

serakunda http://www.senegambiahotel.com/ Bwiam wrestling - Serrekunda East Park Arena Banjul Julbru Abuko Nature Reserve - lamin Brikama Wood Carving Centre bintang

"Home" - Okay fine, Serekunda
Mar 24, 2008

... 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 "Happy ...

DIVING INTO DAKAR
Oct 27, 2009

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 ...