Private chauffeur and other The Gambia Transportation Tips

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Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: Tourist taxis can be found outside all the main hotels. As you find in front of Senegambia ll prices are fixed, but once outside the depot you can negociate about the price (but everything is real well controlled). They are mostly expensive so advisable for a trip inland is to arrange a private drive via well know oragnisations like Crocdile Safaris and Black & white enterprises, via your hotel.

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Category: Ship/Boat
Getting TO/AROUND: A crowdy and much used boat to get to the north bank and te get to Banjul. Be aware of pocket picking, as I heard the stories more then once that it happened at the boat trip.
Also be aware of photographing here as close by is a military base where it is not allowed to take photographs!

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Category: Other
Getting TO/AROUND: Once you have masterd the art of catching one, you will find that bush taxis, known locally as "tankatanks", are by far the cheapest and most convenient way to getting around. Like tourist taxis they have yellow numberplates, but there al similarity ends. Bush taxis operate on fixed routes and frequently lack such inessential luxeries as driving mirrors, door-handles, shock-absorbers and so on (like most taxis too....).
Cars operate on the shorter routes and minibuses ore converted pickups on the longer and more popular ones. They cost only a few dalasis and pick up people anywhere during the journey.
Serakunda is a good start for a bush taxi (leave outside the tourist area as most drivers ignore tourist as they want to avoid conflicts with the local taxi drivers).

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Category: Ship/Boat
Getting TO/AROUND: Only few people with cars use this ferry. Most people travel by foot and many boats (wooden) go up and down here.
We visited this site as Egyptian Plover is over here between November and February and we tried our chance but we sadly failed!

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Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: Self-drive is not recommend as road are mainly in bad state. And a private driver via a tour compagny is strongly advised by me.
If you decided to drive youre own you can hire cars Hertz near the Senegambia hotel.
But some people we met and hired a car had loads of trouble with them! Including broken once they had to left behind!

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Category: Bus
Getting TO/AROUND: Buses are operated by GPTC (Gambia Public Transport Corporation) and run on a limited number of routes, linking Banjul with Soma, Basse, Serekunda, Bakau, Tanji and Gunjur and running on the North Bank from Barra to the Senegalese frontier and to Georgetown via Kerewan and Farafenni. There are bus stops at intervals along the routes but buses are often full. The best way to make sure of a seat on an outward journey is to board at the Banjul terminus which is located in Cotton Street, at the end of the Bund Road.

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