Stone circles and other Wassu, The Gambia Things to Do Tips

Wassu is just the place of thiese stone circles, 20km northwest of Janjanbureh aka Georgetown.
This place is quite interesting and you'll feel like you're actually almost in the begining of man kind here...but you're not, not at all, these rocks seems to be 750AD, so, quite recent I should say.
The surrounding landscape is also very nice which give you something odd to a normal westerner's eye.
The road is made of dirt in red colour, very strong one. I've never saw such a strong red on dirt and of course roads made of that, or, no roads i mean. there are no roads, just dirt tracks.

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It seems that no one near by of the locals will know to explaine you the story of those stones, they will only tell you it looks good to leave stones up like that. In the Wassu stone circles you have at least 10 laterite pillars erected arround a tree.

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It seems to exists more stone monuments besides Wassu in the region ofthe North Bank. I didnt see them but I have the info you can maybe use. On the road to Niani Maru you have stones on each side of the road. At Njai Kunda you have the largest stones of them all, up to ten tonnes. At Kerr Batch you have nine circles of pillars, including an odd V-shaped one.

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