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Bintang Bolong Lodge | |
Location: Bintang Bolong tributary | |
Rooms: 18 huts | Bed & Breakfast ✔ |
En-suite ? | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Review: The Bintang Bolong Lodge is placed within a superb area for bird watching, angling & nature enthusiasts, within 7 private hectares of mangrove riverine wilderness. Elevated wooden walkways make moving between units a doddle! *Excursions can be arranged. | |
Black Cow Guest House | |
Location: Barra Point, north bank, west | |
Rooms: 7 | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
En-suite ✔ Fan ✔ | Self-catering ✔ |
Review: A humble riverside accommodation with 7 bedrooms, each with private shower, sink and flushing toilet. The place is a stopping point for those needing a place to stay using the Barra ferry service to Banjul or up north towards Senegal. | |
Chimp Rehab Project Camp (Badi Mayo) | |
Location: Near Janjanbureh, Baboon Islands, 270km up-river | |
Rooms: 4 tents | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Review:
The lodge has 4 safari tents, each with 2 single beds, on raised wooden
platforms, each with its own private outside shower, and 2 shared composting
toilets. Among the kinds of wildlife you can spot in this part of the River Gambia National Park are hippos, baboons, crocodiles and many fish and bird species such as broad-billed rollers, herons, vundu catfish and tigerfish. *NB: The camp is closed to tourists 3 days a week. |
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Denton Bridge Resort | |
Location: Oyster Creek, just outside Banjul | |
Rooms: - | En-suite ✔ Fan ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ | |
The accommodation has large bedrooms with en-suite shower / WC. It is the perfect base for watersports, boating and fishing devotees, and has easy boat access to the Tanbi Wetland Reserve. | |
Jimbana Park Eco-lodge | |
Location: Bakalarr village, north bank creek | |
Rooms: 6 | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Camp Site ✔ (area) | Self-catering ✔ |
Waterfront bungalows, each sleeps 2 to 6 guests with shared shower rooms and flushing WCs. | |
Kaira Konko Scout Lodge | |
Location: Soma up-country, Lower River Region (LRR) | |
Rooms: 7 | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
En-suite ✔ (2) | Self-catering ✔ |
The camp is located on the banks of the Gambia River and is open to scouts and tourists alike. It has 7 bedrooms with shared or en-suite shower and WC, or stay in a dormitory with bunk beds. There is no standby generator and electricity and water supply is unpredictable. | |
Kairoh Garden Guest House | |
Location: Kuntaur by riverside | |
Rooms: 12 | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Fan ✔ | |
Kairoh Garden has 12 bedrooms with fans in 3 structures. Each room can sleep from 2 to 4 people, with shared showers and flushing toilets. Water is from a well and electricity is only available during certain times of the day. | |
Mandina Lodges | |
Location: Mandina River, Makasutu Culture Forest | |
Rooms: 8 | Swimming Pool ✔ |
En-suite ✔ Fan ✔ | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Review: This is a 5 star luxury lodge on the banks of a tributary surrounded by mangrove swamp, creeks and trees in a private park area covering a vast expanse of pristine land. Each room sleeps from 2 to 3 guests and each suite comes with a ceiling fan, 'al-fresco' shower (with solar hot water), hand-basin, composting WC, sunbathing patio and a comfortable four-poster double bed with mosquito net covering. | |
Marakissa River Camp | |
Location: riverside meander, Marakissa | |
Rooms: - | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Each water's edge hut comes with 1 double bed, a private walk-in shower and WC. | |
Nyanya's Beach Lodge | |
Location: Tanji River & Atlantic Ocean beachfront | |
Rooms: - | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Waterside rooms with en-suite toilet, shower and mosquito bed net. NB that this is a artisanal fishermen's working beachfront and so is prone to flotsam and smoke from the curing huts further down the shoreline. | |
Sitanunku Lodge | |
Location: Riverside, Dog Island, north bank | |
Rooms: 5 | Dip Pool ✔ |
En-suite ✔ Fan ✔ | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Sitanunku has 5 deluxe bedrooms, all with modern shower, fixtures, wash-hand basin, toilet and ceiling fan. Electricity is from solar panels and there is no air-conditioning. The promontory and its immediate vicinity is an idyllic location for ornithologists, anglers, or visitors who just want to take some R&R and get away from the tourist hotspots | |
Stala Adventures | |
Location: Kartong Allahein River, SW Gambia | |
Rooms: - | Barbecue areas ✔ |
En-suite ✔ | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
The fish and bird resort has a collection of Gambian style grass huts, each with private shower, basin, WC. Each huts has 2, 3 or 4 single beds with storage space and mosquito nets. | |
Talamanca Lodge | |
Location: Janjanbureh Island, 300km upriver | |
Rooms: 3 | |
En-suite ✔ | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Talamanca is on the town's river bank and has 3 bedrooms; each has its own shower, hand basin and flushing toilet bowl. | |
Tendaba Camp | |
Location:
Kwinella, 150 km upriver from Banjul |
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Rooms: - | Swimming Pool ✔ |
En-suite ✔ A/C ✔ | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Tendaba has 2 kinds of lodgings: Standard Room or Riverside Room with air-conditioning. The Kiang Central Region is well known for its many bird species and good sports fishing in the waterways. | |
Tendato Eco Lodge | |
Location: Mandinari, south bank of the Gambia River | |
Rooms: 10 | |
En-suite ? | Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
Review: The rural lodge has 4 double and 6 single bedrooms, beds have treated, draping mosquito bed-nets. The area is superlative for bird watchers taking an excursion to the avian-rich Mandinari Flats, particularly during the rice growing season from August to October. During the winter season check out the Temminck's coursers that appear during clearing of the groundnut fields. | |
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*Riverside accommodation with' A/C (air-conditioning), airport transfers, Wi-Fi & other facilities & services maybe optional extras or limited in number & scope. *En-suite may mean a private bathroom / shower & WC shared by 2 or more bedrooms from the same suite under the one booking. *NOTE: Before making any lodge reservation, contact the lodge first to clarify all details & rates. No guarantees are given as to the accuracy of the information on this website. Above are photos, contact addresses, telephone numbers, some emails, reviews & websites. |
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