>>2860150>any wild animals mess with you on the trip?I didn't read this anywhere but the region is famous for snakes (and scorpions), and there are A LOT of snakes
I saw a guy with a handball sized swollen bite area from a snake but I didn't suffer any attack. I had a couple snakes slide over my shoulders though as they tried to escape the branches they were on and avoid me. Of course they only scared the crap out of me and I hadn't seen them before I felt them across my face
Insects are terrible though. Every night Id have some huge black beetle, cockroach or whatever cuddle up in my sleeping bag or at least in my room and start blasting cricket noises. In the mud huts it would be so loud you could feel your ears vibrate. So every night I had to kill at least one massive bug
>did any "animals" mess with you also?at least three times people tried to break in where I was staying (never with my tent though). But this usually just meant trying my locked doorhandle at 2 am and then coming back 2 minutes later and trying again
Senegal had a lot of hatred towards whites, and the people seemed the rudest by far. They only greet by giving a slight nod while in Gambia you say local greetings like "I Saama"
> curious to what you witnessed in the trucks?break lines start smoking while were going 100kmh; I sat next to a driver and thick smoke kept coming up from his pedals for a minute straight and after it stopped he kept driving like the problem fixed itself
people falling off the back at high speeds
the flipped crash I mentioned with 20 killed
the interior is stripped and rusted steel and I saw one dude open half his calf entering the van on a rusted door
High drivers (they are all 15-16 year old boys since the average age is like fucking 18 the country feels like a school)
Every time I drove we ran over at least two animals. Biggest I saw was a truck slam a huge horse and it flew a couple dozen meters. (roads are always full of roaming animals)
>>2860152Absolutely 100%
