Name of Shop: Lucas Jatta's "NATURE"
Food shopping is great at Bakau market, we bought two kilos of black pepper for next to nothing. The best place for all your non-tourist pesents has to be Serrekunda, all the Gambia's colour is here. One thing you must buy is Lucas' palm wine, get it fresh about 10am or at about 6pm when he has finished his collections. You can take a bottle back to your hotel, it will have fermented by the next day and will start getting more alcoholic. Due to restrictions on liquids in hand luggage you won't be able to take any home with you. You can however take home some well wrapped bottles of Cana and Casa Cana, the distilled palm and cashew juice in your main luggage. Our own four litres survived the flight, we're very pleased to say. Lucas also grows his own delicious fruit in the land around the lagoon that borders his Nature.
What To Buy: Lucas is a lovely man and I do urge you to support him, try his palm juice he works so hard to harvest it. He does grow the whole range of those delicious tropical fruits buy it there and share it with him and his colourful friends who drop by.
What To Pay: About 100 delasi for a bottle.
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Address: LUCAS JATTA, P.O. BOX 4489, BAKAU, THE GAMBIA
Directions: Just past the Shop 'n Save and a new private development on Badala Park Road. Follow the outer wall of the Badala Park Hotel towards the lagoon. The track might look intimidating but the welcome is as warm as the climate.
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