We are sailing upstream and are going to explore the beautiful river of Gambia. On our cruise we see hippos, monkeys and a breathtaking nature. We visit the m...

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after four days in the lambing launch we

are ready to leave to go river up people

here are so friendly and helpful and

happy they say Gambia is smiley coast of

Africa that's so we are starting here in

the mean going all the way upriver to

touch town

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you're sailing down the gambia river

it's actually quite nice the river is

not so interesting it is very white and

there is not so much to see but further

upstream I guess it will be much more

interesting we spotted rivet all things

they were a bit shy and they were not in

the mood to come to play with our pond

we passed by the chain silence you can

still see the ruins of a former prison

for slaves

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we just enter it into the bin Town Creek

very quiet here

there is just a little wind to sail not

a lot but we are still doing four to

five knots with the current

our first stop was the Benton Lodge

close to the village there is a

restaurant and some bungalows we spent

our first night on this quiet Anchorage

our daily plans were depending on the

current of the river we always waited

until low tide and started our daily

sail with the tidal upstream in the

nights we anchored in small side creeks

where there are no waves and we are out

of the way of the fishermen which are

throwing their nets sometimes in the

middle of the night

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a place of risk the place of Solace

place the searching to seek one step at

a time

touching down the darkening passage like

too many what every step and floral

seals itself a piece on the next day a

surprise

there were Calif ish everywhere

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there is some construction going on here

they're building a bridge which crosses

the gambia river it's still on the

construction it will be the first bridge

which is crossing the gambia river so

far all the cars and trucks have to take

ferries to cross the river

for tonight we chose a very narrow sight

Creek but with our small boat no problem

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every day the same procedure breakfast

and writing for the tight and go what a

beautiful morning eight o'clock and some

is here bracelet hope that happens like

in the days just 24 degrees

a joyous Tywin's not that warm like

today with Sonya

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we spotted a village and we're going to

check out if we could buy something

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two workers here in that peanut company

they were very nice they gave us a lift

with their truck to the center of this

village and we went to get some few nice

people here very helpful

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in the evening we had visitors in the

trees nearby the monkeys were watching

at us they probably never saw such a

strange-looking boat

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the landscape has now changed the salt

water changed into fresh water no more

mangroves it looks more like a genre now

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this guy just came to us and we give him

right upriver he asked for two empty

bottles of water for the use them for

their fishing nets so we gave him two

sometimes we had to drive around large

fishing nets and because of this one we

got into a territory of wild hippos we

think we have spotted some hippos quite

far away trying to get closer it's not

very deep here but so far we can go a

bit closer very slowly and careful

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it was very fascinating to see this huge

animals in wildlife

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later today we arrived at the village

home tower we were just about to anchor

when three kids came to us and they told

us that a hippo is living exactly where

we uncle we were very grateful and moved

to another place but during the night we

could still hear the hippo screaming

close nearby it was very scary we are on

expedition today we are going to the

stone circles on a hike to the stone

circles it will take us one hour hot Sun

is burning

we followed the road along beautiful

rice fields after one hour we arrived at

the stone circles this place is a UNESCO

World Heritage

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as right people we were to attraction of

the kids they asked us for gifts like

footballs and candies during our stay in

Africa we decided not to give any gifts

in our view it wouldn't help the kids

like that they will just learn that they

can ask the white people for gifts and

money it's better when they learn to

stand on their own feet to look for a

job or to start their own business

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we continued our journey deeper into the

wildlife of the beautiful Gambia

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we discovered a big group of baboons

some of them are huge like lions

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after 180 miles and five days we arrived

on our destination Georgetown

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what comes next

we stranded our trimaran on a sandbar we

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