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Tendaba Camp, pool area. The jetty; watch birds, sunsets & relax ... View from the camp Perfect place to watch the sun go down.

Tendaba Camp Kwinella

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Serekunda.... But not for long

A travel blog entry by jkosmides

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Get ready for a long one... (Ill make sure to put the good stuff first) wow, let me just say that my experience here is hard to put in words. I've been here since Thursday night (so four nights), a lot of adjusting. I'm staying at jori's compound with the rest of her friends from St Mary's (nice range of them... some from undergrad, others from …

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Drunk hotel managers and other characters

A travel blog entry by robspackman

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... and handed me a piece of paper with scrawled translations of phrases in the local language. I felt awful, but what did he want?

A further incident: taking a leisurely stroll a farmer popped through a hedge. He insistently dragged us on a tour about his small field highlighting constantly the damage neighboring goats were doing. A new fence is needed he hinted desperately. We stood hot and tired agreeing with him. ...

Trans Gambia Highway

A travel blog entry by robspackman

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... and jump from the bus despite the inflated fare we paid to cross.

We joined everyone with sense in the dusty line of brightly coloured head scarfs, babies bound tightly on the backs and walked the brick dust red road to the shore. We just missed a boat. A man had to be stopped from trying to jump on to its back. We sat in the shade with everyone else and waited.

The loading, unloading and turningarounding took an hour. As the ferry hit the bank ...

Back from Tendaba

A travel blog entry by howiegt

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After a breakfast of bread, jam and egg at Tendaba it was back on the road - dusty to start and then thankfully back on tarmac!
Today's stops were on the outskirts of the vast Kiang West National Park:
Booted Eagle, African Hawk-Eagle, Bateleur, Gabar Goshawk, Temminck's Courser, Hoopoe, Chestnut-Backed ...

Upriver to Tendaba

A travel blog entry by howiegt

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Today was a long journey up-river to Tendaba, JJ's home village.
Our first stop was at the locally-managed Farasutu Reserve - a gem of a reserve providing open areas, dense woodland and a fresh-water pool.

New species seen here of note was a Yellowbill - only the second time for JJ to see this bird and Green-Headed Sunbird, a lifer for JJ so we were thrilled to have excellent views of both species.

Further along the route to ...

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