Saturday
February 14,
2009
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United Airlines (800-241-6522)
Leave Washington Dulles 2:10p (U#7302)
Arrive New York JFK Airport 3:25p
South African
Airways
Leave New York JFK Airport Terminal #4 5:20p |
Downtown Dakar |
Sunday
February 15 |
South African Airways (800-521-4845)
Arrive Dakar-Yoff-Leopold
Sedal Senghor International Airport 6:00a
Air
Senegal (221) 804
04 04 ou 33-865-2241/42
(Banjul 420-211-7180)
Leave
Darkar 8a
Arrive Banjul 8:40a
Check into the Atlantic Hotel. (220
422 8601) (2/3/5/6).
If miss connection:
Check into the Novotel
Hotel (800-221-4542)
Visit Goree Island, and its museums, shops, and
restaurants, and The
Door to the Millennium on Corniche. |
Door of No Return on
Goree Island |
Monday
February 16 |
Visit a government
office. Visit
Albert's Market. Buy local currency. Buy cloth for clothes that a
tailor will create. Eat at Ali Baba's.
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Senegalese Artist
Chalys Leye |
Tuesday
February 17 |
Get fitted for clothes
made by a tailor. University of The
Gambia, and new upscale housing
complex. |
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Wednesday
February 18
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Gambian Independene
Day. Visit friends.
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Teachers
at Nyato
School
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Thursday
February 19 |
Visit The
Arch, the National Museum, Independence Avenue shops and return to
Albert's
Market in Downtown Banjul. |
The
National Museum
in Banjul |
Friday
February 20 |
Attend
Mosque. Visit with
friends, relax, and enjoy the hotel grounds. Visit Nyato Nursery
School in suburban
Nemakunku. |
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. |
Saturday
February 21 |
 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. |
Sunday
February 22 |
Enjoy the hotel grounds
and beach.
Explore and visit shops
in suburban Serrekunda, Gambia's largest city, and Timbooktoo
Bookshop.
Dinner
with group,
local friends,
and guests.
Enjoy
Gambian nightlife at the
Calabash (young adults), the adjacent jazz club, or other outlets near Kololi Beach area.
Taste Domoda.
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Monday
February 23 |
Visit
Atlantic Avenue Batik Factory and National Library. Pick up
clothes made by local tailor.
Enjoy the hotel grounds.
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El-Hadji Kanku Tuti
Marena gives a
welcoming hug to Virginia Farquharson
of Lawrencville, NJ.
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Tuesday
February 24 |
Enjoy the
hotel grounds.
Air Senegal 420
2117/2118
Leave
Banjul 12:20p
Arrive Dakar 1p
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Wednesday
February 25 |
South African Airways (800-521-4845)
Dakar Airport (11p - 8a 338-695-018)
Town Office (8:30a - 4:30p 338-696-000)
Leave Dakar 2:10a
Arrive
Washington Dulles 6:00a
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| Approximate Costs |
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| Photo
for
U.S. Passport |
15.00 |
| U.S.
Passport |
97.00 |
| 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 |
Vaccines
and Preventive Medicine* (vary depending upon the vaccines that you
have
taken,
your travel doctor's advice, and your preference) Also check the National Center for
Infectious Diseases Traveler's Health Guide. |
858.00 |
Round-trip
airfare from New York City JFK to Dakar and Daker to Washington Dulles
including tax.
|
1,426.62 |
| 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* |
| Hotel
- Atlantic
- Downtown
Banjul (includes full American/British breakfast) Single
$78/night - Double $57/night/person |
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
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| 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).
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| * 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,
1156 15th Street, NW #905, Washington,
DC 20005. (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 February 14, 2008!
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, and 2008)
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