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Water Janjanbureh
"An island bought from a king in 1823 so freed slaves could build a town."
Water Jinack Island
"A sand island split by an invisible border: Gambia at one end, Senegal at the other."
City Juffureh
"A Kinte griot still recites the family line that pulled a diaspora back upriver."
Wilderness Kerbatch Stone Circles
"Among a thousand Senegambian megaliths, only one stone forks into two arms; it stands here."
Water Kunta Kinteh Island
"The last piece of Africa many captives ever saw, and the river is taking it back."
Wilderness Makasutu Cultural Forest
"A forest named for Mecca: palm wine drips from the trunks, baboons patrol the floor."
Wilderness Niumi National Park
"Green turtles nest the beaches of a park where savannah runs into Atlantic surf."
Water River Gambia Boat Journey
"Follow the brown river inland until hippos breathe beside the boat, as Mungo Park did."
Water Tanji Fishing Village
"The beach erupts each afternoon: pirogues through surf, silver bonga by the basket, woodsmoke everywhere."
Water Tendaba
"Twelve-metre mangroves swallow the boat; somewhere in the tangle, a fishing owl watches."
Wilderness Tumani Tenda
"A Jola village that owns its own tourism: every hut built and named by a family."
Wilderness Wassu Stone Circles
"Eleven rings of rust-red pillars guard ancient graves; visitors still add pebbles for luck."
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