Nice. I wonder if the Gambia River is already in self-repair mode from earlier destruction? That industrial concrete pier indicates something was worth stealing, back in the day. The Casamance is lovely. I spent an idyllic weekend once in a hotel on a small island in the River, leaving by boat from the Ziguinchor. The hotel stood alone and was run by two African nuns. We would fish from the sandbars all day, and the Sisters would cook up our catch, fire up their generator and serve the fish and frits with cold Julbrew. The Gambia, the country, is as wide as a British gunboat could shoot, right through the middle of the French colony Senegal. A great haven for smugglers into Senegal. Farther up stream, and back into Senegal, you get into gold-mining country. It used to be artizanale and village-based, but gradually, most of the gold mining in W. Africa has been taken over by huge mining consortiums, many U.S. and Canada based.
I would like to go to upper senegal pne day. Casamance has reputation of bring dangerous but it is not really. But I feel that the areas closer to Mali must be pretty wild. Ziguinchor is one of ugliest towns I have ever seen!
Nice. I wonder if the Gambia River is already in self-repair mode from earlier destruction? That industrial concrete pier indicates something was worth stealing, back in the day. The Casamance is lovely. I spent an idyllic weekend once in a hotel on a small island in the River, leaving by boat from the Ziguinchor. The hotel stood alone and was run by two African nuns. We would fish from the sandbars all day, and the Sisters would cook up our catch, fire up their generator and serve the fish and frits with cold Julbrew. The Gambia, the country, is as wide as a British gunboat could shoot, right through the middle of the French colony Senegal. A great haven for smugglers into Senegal. Farther up stream, and back into Senegal, you get into gold-mining country. It used to be artizanale and village-based, but gradually, most of the gold mining in W. Africa has been taken over by huge mining consortiums, many U.S. and Canada based.
I would like to go to upper senegal pne day. Casamance has reputation of bring dangerous but it is not really. But I feel that the areas closer to Mali must be pretty wild. Ziguinchor is one of ugliest towns I have ever seen!