Monkey Park

The Bijilo Forest Park, sometimes referred to simply as "Monkey Park," is a nice forest park, great for a short, easy hike. I read the park hosts a vibrant ecosystem with one-third of all the butterfly species recorded in the country, more than 130 bird species, and a variety of lizards.

However, missing all of that is quite easy because of the monkeys!

The green monkeys are the most common. Red colobus and patas monkeys live here too, but they're harder to spot. The green monkeys, however, are everywhere.

They're quite used to humans. I don't like the idea of feeding wild animals, but tourists do it. In fact, the park sells peanuts, so it's not like they're preventing this practice in any way.

They were so cute, though! Sometimes you could see some of them fighting or getting aggressive with each other, but for the most part, they were like little curious people.

After the park, we went to have lunch at a place called Ali Baba. I had the same meal as the previous day, Yassa chicken, the caramelized onion sauce served with chicken. This feels like something I should try to cook myself...

One of the trip plans was to visit a tailor and get some outfits made with the fabric we got at the market. Our first attempt was not very successful. We met with the tailor, but he just had photos of very elaborate dresses and nothing simple that we would actually wear, so we decided to go to a different one another day.

We stopped at the camp to pick up our bathing suits and go to the Gambia River.Leggi altro