Streetlife: the paved roads

In most of the Gambia - think 98% of the country - the roads are unpaved. As a tourist you don't see much of the unpaved Gambia. The tourist resorts are concentrated in a tiny and wholly paved dollop along the coast and as tourists you're supposed to stay there.
It's rather not - - - encouraged to travel the 350 or so kilometers due east to the other Gambian border.

In that tiny dollop you'll see the Streetlife as we saw it, on those paved roads. The one outside our hotel for example, the one and only Highway running all the way from the Airport to the capital Banyuls.

It did remind us of Indonesia, albeit not so (horribly) crowded.
But here too hikers, cyclists, mopeds, cars, mini vans and lorries share the same space, with the occasional donkey cart thrown in for the local touch.

For a glimpse of the true blue unpaved roads I'll blog next, and tell about the 'streetlife' in the village right behind our hotel.
This was as exotic as it gets, and exactly how I guessed the 'real' Africa would be. One of those 'I'm in a National Geographic documentary' moments. IRL. So keep reading....

PS If you've ever wondered where all the cars go to that we discart, the really really crap ones: Africa.