Two Gambian guys are watching a
football match on TV. Surprisingly, the TV is mute and instead African music is
on. Imagine the premier league with African music! This is what you can see often
here, a country of contradictions! Another paradoxical picture you may see frequently
in the Gambia is a young block woman with an old white man or old white woman
with a young black man! Most elders seem to be European. This issue is so
common in the touristic area. Obviously, sex truism is doing very well in this
country! Today, I was discussing this with my friend, Abraham. He said that he
hated this particularly, when the black are going to Europe to do the same
thing due to the financial needs. Many of them as they get to Europe are kicked
out. The image of western world is so deceptive. There is a similar vision in
other developing countries to Europe; however, the way of getting to this
continent might be different.
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| Gambian face |
Anyway, what now I am thinking
about is just less than four days is left and there are many places that I
should visit: Senegal, the river of Gambia, Janjanbureh and many other natural
sites, which later I might say why I did not visit them. This morning we went
to visit the reserve park of Abuko. We could see many different specious that I
never had a chance to see them in a natural setting. The most common animal in
this park is green monkey. They are very friendly; even you can give them
peanuts! Besides these sociable monkeys, you can see red monkeys that are not welcoming
creatures.
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| Green monkey |
We saw hyenas as well. They are
very strange animals. Their heads look like dogs and body like leopards. Since
they are eating the dead bodies, they have unpleasant smell. Besides hyenas, we
had a chance to see crocodiles, different birds and even a black snake in the
return way. This continent is so rich in terms of species life. In the smallest
country of Africa, the diversity of animals, plants, languages and cultures
would surprise every visitor. Most of
people here are Muslim; however, they are different from typical Muslims in the
Middle East. They look more African rather than typical Muslims. However, this
might not be a correct comparison between culture and religion. They dance,
drink and ear like African and at same time they would tell you in Fridays they
would go to the public prying.
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| Sacred Crocodile |
People here are so friendly.
Always, they want to help you with a smile on their face. However, you might
come cross with someone who wants to be benefited by you in tricky ways. But
generally speaking, people are usually warm, friendly and well coming which you
can say they are completely different from European and somehow from the Middle
Eastern.
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| On road |
