Best Gambian Banjul, Kunta Kinteh Island, Stone Circles, Senegambia, Makasutu Forest, and Gambia Deep Smiling Coast Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Gambia travel | Africa destinations Best Gambian Banjul, Kunta Kinteh Island (UNESCO 2003), Stone Circles of Senegambia (UNESCO 2006), Senegambia Strip, Makasutu Forest, and Gambia's Smiling Coast Heritage Tour Destinations I have spent close to three weeks total across two trips slipping up and down the Gambia River and dragging my boots through laterite dust at Wassu, and I keep coming back because the country compresses an unreasonable amount of meaning into a sliver of land barely wider than a city. The Republic of The Gambia is 10,690 square kilometres of mainland Africa squeezed around a 480 kilometre river, the smallest non-island country on the continent, and yet it carries two UNESCO World Heritage inscriptions, the tagline "Smiling Coast" that the Gambia Tourism Board has marketed since 1995, and a Roots story that Alex Haley turned into a 1976 novel and a January 1977 ABC miniseries watched by 130 million Americans across eight nights. I...