A Guide's Guide

Thank you very much for you enquiry in how to become a guide in The Gambia. You will find below a comprehensive list of phrases to help you meet, guide and entertain visitors to this country, the smiling coast of Africa.

• Hello boss lady/boss man. How are you? Where are you from?
• Where abouts in...(insert country name)?
• What football team? My team is Manchester United.
• What is your nice name?
• First time to The Gambia?
• How long are you here?
• How do you find it?
• It's nice to be nice, you know.
• Black and white, it's all the same.
• Your home away from home.
• If country of origin is England, feel free to comment upon the positive nature of our colonial link.
• Have you seen the sacred crocodile pool?
• I would like to go there with you.