We ate a breakfast of onion pancakes, bread, jam, banana and mango then set off at 8.30am to the villages of Jufferuh and Albreda, arrived at the hotel unpacked and we set of walking on the Roots Pilgrimage. No sooner had we left the hotel we were surrounded by children all of which wanted to hold our hands and they were fascinated with Abigail and Bradley. A young girl called Maria who was 10 years old took hold of my hand, as we walked even more children appeared running up to us and hugging our legs very sweet. Amy one of the volunteer’s started singing ‘If you’re Happy and you know it Clap your Hands’ and had all the children joining in clapping and singing, she has a good rapour with the children.
The walk to the Museum was only short as both villages have now merged into one, we passed a very smelly fish market and a large baobab tree full of chirping weaver birds, which are a very pretty bright yellow but very noisy. First we were taken by our guide to a baobab tree within the museum grounds which was said to be the very tree where ‘Kunta Kinte’ was circumcised and became a Mandinka Warrior, in those days this area would have been covered by forest. The tree had the outline of an elephant on one side and a monkey on the other so amused Abi and Bradley.
The walk to the Museum was only short as both villages have now merged into one, we passed a very smelly fish market and a large baobab tree full of chirping weaver birds, which are a very pretty bright yellow but very noisy. First we were taken by our guide to a baobab tree within the museum grounds which was said to be the very tree where ‘Kunta Kinte’ was circumcised and became a Mandinka Warrior, in those days this area would have been covered by forest. The tree had the outline of an elephant on one side and a monkey on the other so amused Abi and Bradley.
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