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August 26, 2007

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You will come across wildlife just about everywhere so a pair of binoculars and a camera are really useful

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Senegambia Vulture Feeding

Crocodile Pool

Hotel Garden Monkey

Vulture in flight

There are a number of 'Nature Reserves', each has its own particular attractions

Abuku is the largest, but the smaller local ones at Kololi and Tanji are also well worth a visit, it is all very natural and undeveloped and therefore somewhat unpredictable, wear long trousers and good shoes

Some of the hotels encourage a wide variety of birds to visit and at the Senegambia at around 10:00 each morning there is a feeding session that attracts a large number of vultures, so if you're in that area of Kololi go in and see. The Gambia has around 540 different bird species making it a bird watchers paradise.

Gambia has lost its larger animals, but up river and in the bush you often see warthogs, hippos, larger monkeys, baboons and crocodiles. If you like your crocs tamer and closer - arrange a visit to see 'Charlie' at the Crocodile pool, it’s good for a few hours and you can get some spectacular photos

Further up river there is Tendaba Camp, (rather dated accommodation now but) well worth an overnight stay, there are a wide range of birds to be seen round here as well as the larger animals left in the country.

Even around the Atlantic coast there are 80 or so bird species.

Lions are now only in Abuko Reserve, but termite hills larger than a man are everywhere - The guy standing there is over 6' - SO you can see the SCALE of ant power.

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