Thinking of hiring a self-drive car? Thanks everyone for the great response to the public transport blog. This next one looks at self-drive private hires and offers advice to anyone considering driving themselves to Janjanbureh. Enjoy… Many people shudder at the thought of hiring a self-drive in Gambia and you often hear visitors talking negatively […]
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We often get asked about public transport from the tourism enclaves at the coast to our home in Janjanbureh. This latest blog is full of advice about the best ways to travel if you’re on a budget. Gambia is a small country. If you are lucky enough to have your own vehicle or can pay
Cows in Gambia, there’s no waste in nature! I apologise in advance if my story offends anyone but this is The Gambia! People say in Africa when an animal dies all will be eaten.So let’s see.I’m writing this basically because a cow wandered into my garden by mistake, it was sick and had come through
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Gambia’s wildlife, most people are aware of Africa’s ‘Big Five’ land animals. It was a term originally used by hunters. It described the most difficult and dangerous of the animals to hunt on foot. These days it is more often used as a selling point to attract nature and wildlife tourists to countries such as
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Many regular visitors to The Gambia will have heard of Gambian bush tea’. But how many of you know exactly what it is or why we should all be drinking it? Is it tea? In fact, ‘Gambian bush tea’ is not tea at all. It refers to any number of local brews produced from the
Gambia bush pig, AKA warthog is healthy, sustainable, mostly organic, certainly free-range, cheap and delicious. Bush pig is also an important part of the diet for many of the Christians in The Gambia. It’s not always available, even here in the provinces and increasingly much of what is caught locally is taken to the coastal area where
The River Gambia and its settlements are as old as time and the best way to experience it is slowly.
Fairplay can help you do just that!
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