(blown out!) image: Jones – The Gambia – 2009
Image; Jason Florio – The Gambia – 2009
Image: Jones – The Gambia – 2009
Starting the journey at Baobab Area, Makasutu Culture Forest on 2nd November 2009
“if you speak English, do your donkeys understand you?” (smart question as the donkeys are from a Fula-speaking village after all) - A Gambian schoolgirl in Bansang town who we met on the road
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This is the least busy (thankfully!) that I have known the Barra-Banjul ferry to be. Its usually packed to capacity and you are literally carried along – feet off the ground if you are short like me! However, the alkalo in Barra told us that when its the ‘cold’ season, Gambians are afriad to travel [...]
Leaving Barra on the ferry for Banjul
Image: Jones – The Gambia – 2009
Saturday 12th December 2009
We are sitting on the side of the road in Kanifing area, waiting for Adama, the mechanic, to come from Makasutu Culture Forest to put our cart wheel back on! More on that in a minute.
We spent the night by the Gambia River in Barra, on the North Bank, last night [...]
We saw the most beautiful sunrises – every morning for 6 weeks!
Image: Jones – The Gambia – 2009
Donkeys are notoriously scared of water – and that includes puddles! Janneh had a knakc of gently coaxing (p)Hadley
Image: Jones – The Gambia – 2009
A patient Jones & Janneh – adopt a, by now, well-rehearsed pose!
We lose the wheel yet again and this was on the last day of our journey! So near to Makasutu, yet so bloody far (we didn’t make it back there until 1.30am the next day!)!
Image: Jason Florio – The Gambia – 2009
Once the ’silofando’ (the giving of the Kolla nuts to the Alkalo of the village) has been given, the men sit around, drinking hataia green tea putting the world to rights……perhaps? Alot of this kind sitting around is done in The Gambia.Florio seemed to quite enjoy it – especially if his muso (’wife’) put the [...]
