Posts From The Gambia

The Gambia, as it is called, (wiki entry click here) is an unlikely country, as it occupies a thin strip of land each side of The Gambia River from its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean deep into the East Coast of Africa forming a narrow intrusion into the country of Senegal. It is immediately evident that it is a poor country and depending on your information source its major source of foreign income is peanuts and the tourist trade. Given the evident lack of wealth we were surprised to see that the streets were relatively clear of rubbish. Note the photo of the man with a donkey cart. There are many of these combinations of man-cart-donkey(s) and they are the first line of defence, they pick up the rubbish in the streets and from piles of rubbish made by home owners and business owners. It is then consolidated into special rubbish trucks.