Hotel Keur Saloum Toubakouta

... lights and lots of senegalese men offereing to take you to your campement on the back of a scooter!Its not a nice experience to have in the dark! We managed to find our way to Keur Youssou to meet some other friends without the aid of the scooter men and got settled in to our lovely campement which was costing us about 7 pounds per night. not bad!
The next day we took a boattrip and a donkey ride to ...

... we noticed that it was absolutely hissing down. Result! Some 6 hours later, we were in the sunshine and joining the usual bunfight to get through customs. There was an extra hurdle to get through today because, in view of the massive 9 confirmed cases of swine 'flu in the UK (Pop. 65m) the Gambians were taking no chances and took everybody's temperature on arrival. I don;t even want to ...

... occupies a prominent place in a collection of similar-sized souvenirs from previously-visited nations, and is intended as a symbolic reminder of the overall sense of Gambian spirit. Considering the range of emotions generated during the trip, my overall assessment of the Gambian experience is that it is living proof that a visit to a third-world country most definitely does not always equate to a third-rate holiday.

... prayer for the engine to fire as he turns the key. None of the gages work, you can feel the springs in your seat, the emergency brake is always useless, the power steering is gone, the rear view mirror is barely hanging on, and only half the door handles ever work. We make our way to Highway N2. Its hard to tell how many lanes of traffic their are on African highways. There is no paint on the road, even if there was no one ...

... was on the water about 5km up the road. We all decided since it was such a beautiful morning, why not just walk it. Lamen told us that we could call him at any time but we felt bad calling so early. After about 20minutes of walking and having a very interesting dicussion with this army man, we saw a toyota approaching, it quickly passed by us heading south. The solider told us that this man would come back for us on the way back in a couple of minutes. Jori's words: The previous ...

... of how ever many people they were wanting to get into that "vehicle"(one of the worse i had seen all along), and oh **** was exactly what came out of our mouths. Jori looked at me and i knew exactly what i had to do... we threw down 600D(30bucks) and bought the rest of the vehicle. We knew we had to get across the boarder and on our way, we were already later then we wanted to be and there could be more hold ups at the boarder. The manager who i just made really happy ...

... wildlife parks in the search of Big Game, we'd get all excited at seeing a vehicle ahead stopped to peer into the jungle, long-range lenses at the ready. Only to draw closer and realize the source of the drama was some tiny dull looking bird, indistinguishable from any of the other dull looking birds filling the skys. "Ornithologists, the Scourge of ordinary Game-Watching Folk" we growled to ourselves, sullenly turning back ...