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it's very heavy yeah thank you very much
when you look at the map of Africa you
see all these huge countries like
Algeria Ethiopia or South Africa
what is harder to see is the Gambia the
smallest country of continental Africa
looking at the shape of this tiny West
African country an insane idea popped
into my head we begin our journey in the
Gambia's capital Banjul we took a ferry
to the town of bara where we have to
take a local bus to travel further into
central Gambia where I wanted to execute
this crazy idea
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we are at a local bus to the town of
Farah penny should take around four
hours you cannot imagine how hot and
humid it is right now we're just
sweating think I'm getting dizzy but I
really hope this is gonna be worth it
because the plan I have in Farah penny
I honestly think nobody did what I'm
gonna do
I wanted to record the countryside but
it's not possible
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so we are in front of any do you have a
room with mosquito net is there any
place in far-off any that has mosquito
nets hey mr c a.m. RC we definitely need
a room with mosquito nets it's too
dangerous to sleep without a mosquito
net trying to find the a.m. RC hotel a
MRSA guest home so I think it's time to
finally tell you what I'm doing here in
the town of Farah funny you see Gambia
is the smallest country of continental
Africa it is completely surrounded by
Senegal and it's quite wide but it's
very very narrow the narrowest point is
only 24 kilometres long it starts at the
northern Gambian Senegalese borders then
goes through the town of - II then it
crosses the river Gambia then it crosses
the village of soma
and at the end it reaches the south or
in Gambian Senegalese borders I have no
idea how to cross the river and I don't
know if it's possible to run this route
during the rainy season but I'm gonna
try
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this is going to kill us today
that was so unstable after nearly
getting killed by the ceiling fan it
will stand for a little sightseeing in
this sleepy little town the people
didn't understand what we were doing
there but they were very friendly anyway
after trying the local cuisine we
stumbled upon a very important role this
is exactly what I needed
thanks to this I'll know my directions
tomorrow because I'm starting at the
Senegalese border and I'm going to cross
the river Gambia which is not here let's
let's suppose it is here then I have to
go to the village of soma and after that
I'll go to the souther Senegalese
borders the plan was clear the
expectations were high and the day was
over
tough day I was just told that the taxi
driver that was supposed to take me to
the border is in another town so I need
to find the taxi in the morning not sure
how the craziest thing of my life starts
in six hours see you tomorrow
so I woke up at 4 a.m. with a
stomachache I had a diarrhea
I cancelled my alarm clock it's 11 a.m.
and I'm still suffering I'm having
stomachache
I'm not hungry at all I feel kind of
weak but I need to do the running even
if it's just walking I need to do it
tomorrow so today I'll just rest I'll
try to eat something I'll try to keep it
inside me and no matter what I'm doing
the fan running tomorrow I'm doing it
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I still feel like I'm ish my pants every
second I'm still having stomachache that
I gotta do the run today it's now or
never
this is probably the most interesting
most bizarre and also craziest idea of
my life regarding my health conditions
this may also be the worst idea of my
life also I will not be bringing this
huge camera with me and I'll be
recording everything on my phone the
first thing that I have to do is find a
taxi that would take me to the Gambian
Senegalese borders there's nobody on the
streets it's so so strange the streets
are really crowded every single day
every night but now there's just no one
I need to get to the border yes the
Senegalese border
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every single person at the border is
staring at me as if I was absolutely
crazy so this is the border I think I
will not be filming anymore at the
border the police officers may have
problems with that so I should get going
just my running
this is a phone I'm so lucky not to be
arrested right now let's go - ewwww
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bye-bye far off any moving on
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I guess that reaching the ferry services
is what I needed
excuse me how can I get to the ferry ha
ha ha speaking of all running again and
the unpaved Road begins well I can
already see the Little Harbour in a
distance almost 10 kilometers
I just bought a ticket for the ferry I'm
here
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all right we're halfway there let's make
the second half quick and painless
before the heat kills me
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there is absolutely no shadow and the
heat is extreme Gambia Gambia you're
gonna kill me today
oh no more videos until the village of
soma because I have only 20% of the
battery left and I need the phone in
case something unexpected happens there
is a chance that I will pass out so
that's why I need the phone
anyway 10 minutes of rest and then
straight to the village of soma hand to
the borders hi mama do I'm doing great
thank you how are you
so mama do do you still have the the
phone okay so if I send you the money I
send you the money today okay so you
will fix the phone and then you will
send me the video okay okay thank you
very much I will send it later today bye
bye
poor kilometers shy of the border my
cell phone died not sure whether it was
the battery or the heat but once I
arrived at the border I couldn't film to
prove I was there luckily a young man
named Mamadou gave me his cell phone to
film the proof and he promised to send
me the five second video he didn't send
it though he claimed the phone broke so
we agreed I would send him money for the
repair and yesterday Mamadou wrote to me
that he sold the phone a long time ago
and I should keep the money so I don't
have a proof that I'm the only person in
the world who ran through the entirety
of Gambia in three hours
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