Fajara Hotel Gambia

Paradise 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, ...

... - Kotu Bridge, Kotu Creek and fields, Sewage Works (I know, we're supposed to be on holiday!!), Cycle Track and in the afternoon Fajara Golf Course. The morning blew us away - an Osprey was the first bird of the day, carrying a massive fish from the sea. ...

... 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 ...

... certificate.  I'm not sure why it's so important to have one, it's not as if it were a contagious disease but The Gambia, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau all lie in designated Yellow Fever risk areas. We decided to spend the night in Ziguinchor as I was ...

... in the area. I knew that I would be able to meet/put in contact with people that would facilitate my research. We left Fajara early morning to travel down to the border crossing at Giboroh – passport control/ security did not take any time at all ...

... beautiful however is to make a new friend. My new friend is called Baba.  Baba is 27 years old and comes from The Gambia.  To his Senegalese friends, he is known as Gambie and to his Gambian friends, Senegal.  We met Gambie while on our ...

... continent took two long, tiring and at times painful days of travelling.  And it did not get off to a good start. Departing our hotel in Fajara at 06:30 on Saturday, we arrived at the ferry terminal at Banjul (we needed to head north first) to find a ...