Outside the tourist resorts : contact with the Gambians

There's a lot of Gambia outside the tourist resorts.
But it takes a crash course to deal with the fact that you're the rich one in any encounter, and it took us almost a week before we knew how to have an easy, interesting and in the end a wonderful time with the Gambians.

When we - finally - knew we left the beaten path and strolled around happily in the village behind our hotel.
We watched children playing football - Gambians love football - we saw the women sitting outside the compound, we bought sweets in the tiny shops that are part of their homes, we chatted with the children that came to greet us and we walked back to the hotel in the company of a local teacher who had an awful lot of knowledge of the Gambian educational system.

A very African experience! It was absolutely wonderful, the quiet, the spaceous roads, the contact we had with the people that lived there. Finally past the white-and-rich vs. black-and-poor. It felt great. That's why we want to come back.