I spent 3 days in the Gambia back in 2018, as part of a trip riding a motorbike from Dakar to Bissau. The Gambia was, by far, the least enjoyable country of that trip. The most memorable experiences in The Gambia were:

• Multiple people trying to sell me hashish
• A super aggressive sex worker trying to pick me up in a bar
• Getting sprayed by foul water coming out the back of a truck hauling “harvested sand” from along the coast
• Being threatened and verbally abused by traffic cops who were annoyed when I refused to pay them bribes