Gambia

The oldest officially protected area in The Gambia, a small forest reserve in a shallow valley that acts as a wildlife corridor between the coast and the inland savanna, offering the most reliable guided wildlife experience near Banjul.

Banjul's central covered market, a dense multi-lane bazaar of produce, textiles, brass and wood, with a layered street life that shows Gambian commerce in its most concentrated form.

A small coastal forest reserve on The Gambia's main tourist corridor, close to the Senegambia hotels, offering a manageable short-walk wildlife experience with monkeys, birds and a beach at the far end.

A low laterite island in the Gambia River, site of a 17th-century fort used in the transatlantic slave trade, now preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and place of memorial.

The longest natural beach on The Gambia's Atlantic coast, running several kilometres between the fishing harbour at Gunjur and the coastal scrubland near the village of Sanyang, relatively undeveloped and backed by a belt of casuarina trees.

A Ramsar-listed coastal wetland at the mouth of the Gambia River, forming a network of mangroves, tidal creeks and floodplain that serves as a critical fish nursery for the national fishery and a habitat for hippos, manatees and waterbirds.