Cycling Tours
Keep the Excitement of your Sustainable Tourism Journey Alive with Pedal Power!
Pedal along the trails on the island or through the villages. Go for a long ride on a hired bike with a professional guide, enjoy the exercise and the experience. The tours can be tailored to your physical ability, with hired bikes supplied by Czech Bikes for Africa.
With many children unable to attend school because of the long walking distance, the CBGS charity provides hundreds of bikes throughout the country including Janjanbureh. These are shipped from the Czech Republic as mainly bike parts , tools etc.
An essential aspect of the scheme is that building them and maintenance training is include, in many cases providing income for youths.
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Czech Bikes for Gambian Schools (CBGS)
"Our journeys are not always the smoothest, while carrying all our tools and spare parts last week on our way to Janjanbureh, our car broke down halfway into the journey. We had to get to Janjanbureh in order to start the second phase of our training.
Our partners from the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, The Gambia came to our rescue and we were able to continue our journey using the vehicle they sent us."
Feb '21
Destination Janjanbureh has been fortunate to receive bikes from CBFS and training through the support of the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP),
including training one of our guides, Mariama Sambou, as a bike mechanic.
Haruna, the Chief Bike Mechanic at Armitage School for CBGS, is a dependable figure, chosen to lead the Rescue Team, a group of mechanics who travel to schools to repair bikes, contributing significantly to the project's continued success.
Ousman Komma is responsible for the Czech Bikes and a Cycle Guide.