Doing your daily shopping in the Gambia is hardly necessary when you're a tourist. Your hotel or resort will cater for all your needs. Some - expats? - will visit the supermarkets, we've visited a couple and they were stacked with imported goods: Dutch, English and French. Nothing Gambian, not even African. These supermarkets are definitely too expensive for the major part of the Gambians.
As is customary in the (sub) tropics you do your shopping at the markets and in the small shops near them. They'll sell anything from tires to cloth, from refrigerators to canned food, from dye to home made soap.
While the small shops are concentrated in the (two) larger towns the markets are everywhere, especially at crossroads. They're not for tourists. We strolled along a couple of them, but felt rather out of place, I must say.
The largest and most interesting market is the Serrakunda market, followed by the Albert market in the capital Banyul. We visited both.
We start with some market pics. Note: not for the faint hearted! (but that's only at the end).
In my next blog I'll post some pics of the 'shops that line the streets'.
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As is customary in the (sub) tropics you do your shopping at the markets and in the small shops near them. They'll sell anything from tires to cloth, from refrigerators to canned food, from dye to home made soap.
While the small shops are concentrated in the (two) larger towns the markets are everywhere, especially at crossroads. They're not for tourists. We strolled along a couple of them, but felt rather out of place, I must say.
The largest and most interesting market is the Serrakunda market, followed by the Albert market in the capital Banyul. We visited both.
We start with some market pics. Note: not for the faint hearted! (but that's only at the end).
In my next blog I'll post some pics of the 'shops that line the streets'.
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