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    Main mosque1Brad's batik T-shirtThe marketThe Crocodile poolPetting Tony, a 55-year-old albino crocodileStopped for a drink at a resortThe museumMural at the museumA random military checkpoint

    Banjul, The Gambia

    March 19, 2023, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Visiting The Gambia for the first time so we decided to take a ship excursion to see the highlights of Banjul and its surrounding area. Banjul is an island city with a population of about 30,000. The broader metropolitan area has about 400,000 people. The Gambia is surrounded by Senegal on three sides and has the Atlantic Ocean on the fourth.

    The tour was great and took us to places such as Arch 22, a massive 36m-high monument built to celebrate the military coup of 22 July 1994, a batik maker, the main mosque (95 per cent of Gambians are Muslim), the market area, the national museum and The Kachikally Crocodile Pool. The Pool is one of three sacred crocodile pools used as sites for fertility rituals. Women wanting to get pregnant go there to bathe.    Read more