| Wednesday March 21
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South Africa Airways
(800-722-9675)
Leave Washington Dulles 5:40p (SA 208)
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Downtown Dakar |
Thursday
March 22 |
South African Airways (221 33-869-4000
)
Arrive Dakar, Senegal's Yoff-Leopold
Sedal Senghor International Airport 5:20a
Check into the Novatel (800-221-4542)
Visit Goree Island and its museums, shops and
restaurants, The
Door to the Millennium on Corniche, and the new African Rennaissance Monument. |
Door of No Return on
Goree Island |
Friday
March 23 |
Take a journey by car through the countryside of Northern Senegal and Northern Gambia to Banjul.
Check into The Oasis
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Senegalese Artist
Chalys Leye |
Saturday
March 24 |
Buy local currency and visit Albert's Market to buy cloth for clothes that a tailor will make. Eat at Ali Baba's - downtown.
Go to grocery store in Kololi for food to place in room.
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Sunday
March 25
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Visit Glory Baptist Church.
Visit friends.
Get fitted for clothes
made by a tailor.
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Teachers
at Nyato
School
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Monday
March 26 |
Visit The
Arch, a government office building, the National Museum, Independence Avenue shops and return to
Albert's
Market in Downtown Banjul.
Stop by the National Library. |
The
National Museum
in Banjul |
Tuesday
March 27 |
Visit Nema Kunku Nursery
School in suburban
Nema Kunku.
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Bakary Jadama and Omar
Ceesay,
members of the Port of Harlem
Soccer
Team, are all smiles with their new T-shirts
printed by Unitees of Washington, D.C. |
Wednesday
March 28 |
 Boat ride up the River
Gambia to Juffureh (Home of Kunte Kinte), the flag pole at Albreda, the
museum, and St. James Island. GambiaTours (220 446 2601 / +220 776 2462) provides lunch during
relaxing all-day excursion. |
Above: Kinte
descendants Omar Taal of
Juffreh and Tina Thompson of Springdale, MD.
Right: Ousman Faal steers a
boat up the Gambia River to Juffreh, home of
Kunte Kinte. |
Thursday
March 29 |
Explore and visit shops
in suburban Serrekunda, Gambia's largest city, and Timbooktoo
Bookshop.
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Friday
March 30 |
Visit a mosque. Pick up
clothes made by local tailor.
Enjoy Gambia Nightlife at The Duplex (young adults) or an adult contemporary club.
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El-Hadji Kanku Tuti
Marena gives a
welcoming hug to Virginia Farquharson
of Lawrencville, NJ. |
Saturday
March 31 |
Visit the Monkey Park and Kololi beach.
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Sunday
April 01 |
Visit friends.
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Monday
April 02 |
Leave Banjul by car to return to Dakar. |
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Tuesday
April 03 |
South African Airways
Dakar, Senegal's Yoff-Leopold
Sedal Senghor International Airport 1:15a (SA 207) |
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Wednesday
April 04 |
Arrive at Washington Dulles
6:25a |
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| Approximate Costs |
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| Photo
for
U.S. Passport |
15.00 |
| U.S.
Passport |
135.00 |
| Gambian
Visa (Gambian Embassy USA 202-785-1399) (pay with a money order or
bank check and send
with
two VISA-sized pictures, VISA form, and passport with a self
addressed stamped envelope OR you take it to the Gambian Embassy.) |
100.00 |
Round-trip
airfare from New York City JFK to Dakar and Daker to Washington Dulles
including tax
|
1380.42 |
| Round-trip airfiare
from Dakar to Banjul, including tax. |
300
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| Ground
transportation to and from hotel - Dakar (per
car) |
20.00* |
| Ground
transportation
to and from hotel - Banjul (23 per car?) |
5.00* |
| Excursion
to Juffureh - includes
lunch |
73.00* |
| The Oasis - 1 bedroom plus living room apartment |
624.00* |
| Daily
spending
money for lunch, dinner, taxi, gifts, ectera. |
350.00 |
Miscellenous Expenses
in The Gambia including sponsorship of 1 child for four years at Nyato
School
|
200.00
|
| Approximate Total Cost
(please note it includes
medical services, passport, VISA, and spending money) |
4,068.62 |
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Examples of other
costs in The Gambia:
Full
sit-down dinner at a very good restaurant $12; custom-made women's
outfit
$15; Shirt $10; 1/2 hour on the Internet $2; 1 hour massage $24 (prices
in Dakar
will most likely be higher). Cab Fares: $18 Airport; $21
Senegambia; and $80 Juffreh. (Hotel
- Novetal - Downtown Dakar (inlcudes
breakfast) $163; Ride to Goree Island $12).
Notes: Fana Hotel for cheap layover stay in Dakar.
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Vaccines
and Preventive Medicine* (vary depending upon the vaccines that you
have
taken, and
your travel doctor's advice and your preference) Also check the National Center for
Infectious Diseases Traveler's Health Guide
* Your doctor may
advise that
you to take the following vaccines: hepatitis
A
($104), hepetitis B ($104), malaria ($11 -$100), meningitis ($145),
rabies ($230), typhoid ($60), yellow fever
($115), tetanus ($35), measles, polio booster
($45). You
may
also want to take with you: Norfloxacin (traveler's diarrhea). All costs are
estimates. |
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| Approximate Costs |
1.
You may
use the Visa
form
linked to this page, but apply for your Visa directly though the
Gambian
Embassy,
2233 Wisconsin Ave, NW #240, Washington,
DC 20007. (Tel. 202-785-1399) You will need to send
them:
- a
$100 money order
- 2
passport sized photos
- and
your passport in a
pre-paid self-addressed envelope via FedEx or certified U.S. Mail.
2.
You may want to call your credit card company before leaving the States
and advise them that you will be
making charges that you do not usually make.
Sometimes credit card companies see unusual charges and
place a hold on your card until you contact
them.
3. You
may register your trip with the U.S. State Department. This will help
them contact you in case of an
emergency.
The service is free. |
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Join Port
of Harlem when we return to the Gambia March 21, 2012!
Send an
email
to
GambiaTravels@PortOfHarlem.Net and we will
keep you updated on our plans. (Previous trips taken in 2001,
2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011)
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