First Holiday In Gambia?
The Gambia is peaceful and stable. Crime rates and the cost of living are among the lowest in the world. The sun shines for all 12 months of the year! The Gambia offers you the best climate in the world and one of the most beautiful landscapes. This makes the Gambians warm and friendly people with a contagious relaxed attitude to life.Arch Tours offer well organised, hassle free holiday tours, bush and beach, tourist trips and historical and cultural excursions throughout The Gambia. Our escorted tours are worry-free and hassle-free, as all the details are handled for you.
As an introduction to The Gambia or simply as the best way to see as much of the Gambia in one day as possible, Arch Tours offer 4 trips in one day. This entails 4 major tours rolled into one. These samre 4 tours that are usually offered individually by Tour Companies in the Gambia
First Time Visit to Gambia: What to See & What To Do
The Arch Tours brand of ecotourism offers an insightful, mindful and participatory holiday or travel experience in natural and culturaly vibrant environments around The Gambia.
We involve the local communities in the tourism business process and have a high success rate in creating and sustaining profitable businesprojects that benefit the tourist, the local villages and the environment.
Experience the Real Gambia with 4 tours in 1 day
starts 08.00 hrs and back at 18.00 hrs.
This Tour starts with a guided walk in;
Serrekunda Market which is teh biggest local market in the Gambia. As we go through the market, we tell you about local products tha are made and sold in the Gambia
Crocodile pool. We visit one of the 3 sacred crocodile pools in the Gambia. A change to touch a crocodile in a pool of more than 100 crocodiles.
Visit to the Lamin cattle market and we would tell you the important role that cattles play in our average Gambian way of life.
Lamin Lodge for a 30 minutes coffee or tea break.
A jeep safari into almost 20 villages or hanlets is the west and south of the Gambia. Stop in one of the villages for a family visit where we would be telling you all about family life in the Gambia and how we live as a social family.
Stop on Paradise Beach for 2.5 hours for lunch and swimming in the ocean.
22 kilometers drive along the beach and stop in the major fishing village of Tanji. Just in time to see the days catch and a visit to the smoke houses.
Last stop at a Brewery run by a man from Belgium where you can sample cashew wine, grape fruit wine, chocolate wine etc.
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Holidays in Gambia: Holiday Trips, Tours & Excursions in Gambia, Senegal, West Africa
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Red Nose Day or Dambisa Moya?
RED NOSE OR DIAMBISA MOYO?
Dambisa Moyo is a Global Economist at Goldman Sachs in London. She previously worked at the World Bank in Washington DC. A native of Zambia, she holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University and a Masters from Harvard. With the publication of her book 'DEAD AID: Destroying the Biggest Global Myth of Our Time' she appeared all over BBC radio one day in February arguing that the $300 billion received in aid since the 1960's has made the poor of Africa poorer, with wages stagnant or even fallen from their 1960's level. Her conclusion is that Aid has done nothing but slow growth in developing countries.
With Red nose day looming (Friday 13th March)the supermarkets full of red noses, red nose wine and red nose apples, and even the county council buildings sporting a giant red nose disc, should we be re thinking our approach to aid?
I thoroughly enjoy watching red nose evening with my family. We laugh and cry at all the right places. I understand why Davina Macall and not I have been chosen to tell the success story of the fight against malaria in Malawi, or Billy Connolly reuniting a family in Mozambique.I dont even feel bitter and twisted that Cheryl Cole and Gary Barlow have got to climb Mt Kilimanjaro for the cause. We buy all the produce, and ring up at about 10pm with our credit card in hand.
There have been many episodes of bad aid, corruption and economic dogma which support the 'Dead Aid' argument.It has taken many forms; guns and tanks, powdered milk, preaching against the condom, the curse of diamonds and oil, marxist agrarian revolutions and cathedrals the size of Notre Dame in the jungle
But I do believe that all of the cash from Red Nose Day does good. It is not a hand out which breeds reliance and it is not directed from the top down where it can sometimes amount to very little when it reaches its actual target. It does not always address social and economic needs and growth as would be ideal, but it does touch and save individuals; it seems easier to accept a report of a million children dying of malaria a year than it is to watch one die on a Friday night in front of Lenny Henry. I believe that if I send £10 it may be used to buy a mosquito net under which mother and children can sleep, and which may prevent further grief in a family. Life is really no cheaper in Africa and if a night in watching Comic relief makes people think a bit further than their credit crunch, born of greed, then that is OK. It for the government and the NGOs to re think their policies on aid to Africa.
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