Visiting Fathala Wildlife Reserve in Senegala and Kunta Kinteh island with Albreda/Juffureh villages includes crossing the river from Banjul to Barra by ferry or local boat.

Fathala Wildlife Reserve in Senegal is an area that consists of approximately 6000 hectares of original and protected forest, providing guests with the opportunity to visit an original stretch of the African wilderness in it’s original condition.

Taking a safari ride on the red road towards Albreda and Juffureh will give you the opportunity to learn about the lifestyle of the villages on the North Bank of the River.

These two villages lie so close to each other that it's difficult for a visitor to tell where one ends, and the other begins. Albreda is famous for its old trading post and slave factory, which is another name for a fortified trading post. Juffureh is renowned because of Alex Haley's 1970’s book Roots, in which he, an African-American, investigated his ancestry. Juffureh is the place from where Kunta Kinteh, one of Haley’s forebears, was taken as a slave around 200 years ago.

Kunta Kinteh Island is a small rocky outcrop in the River Gambia which holds the extensive ruins of Fort James, among a small grove of Baobab trees.

Visiting the museum of slavery in Albreda and stepping on the vanishing island of one of the most known names in the history of slavery, will not leave you senseless.