Hello all, apologies for my silence but as you all know sometimes life gets in the way of the things you enjoy.
I haven’t had much cause to do an update on the Embassy Adventure as sadly the responses dried up rather quickly. But there is hope! I have had two more responses that I have yet to share with you that I will now. One of them is rather quick and the other a little more detailed. So we start in The Gambia. I said in my day 4 update that The Gambia had emailed and said they would send some maps to me. Well they arrived! Though it seems they might have gotten the wrong end of the stick as they sent me 10 of the same map. So if anyone would like one feel free to get in contact.
The Gambia map is exactly that. One one side you have a map of this rather oddly shaped country following The Gambia river surrounded by Senegal. On the other you are given the top 50 things to do. With Sports, Cultural, Business, Nature, Adventure and Night life all playing their own part in a vibrant country. There is information on the cuisine, arts and crafts, people and culture, music and a small fact sheet. Some of the facts they give are as follows, The Gambias ccapital is Banjul and they have a popluation of around 2.4 million. The yuse the Dalasi as currency and have the official language of English though there are many other dialects such as Fula, Jola, Wollof and Mandinka. As one of the smallest countries in Africa with an area of only 11,298 square km, the country is spilt into two seasons, a dry from Novermber to june and a wet from July to October.
The other country who were kind enough to respond was Namibia. Score another point for Africa! They sent me a few peices of liturature about the country which I have detailed below.
Namiba was kind enough to send a few documents to me. Firstly a tour planning map which on one side has the whole country and the other detailed maps of their capital Windhoek and of major national parks. Another document is ‘A guide to our Safaris of Charachter’. This is another map like document with possible safari locations in Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. It has many places you can stay and where to get flights from and to. Another booklet on conferencing and meeting facilities in the country give a good idea of what businesses could utilise in a visit to their country. Oh to work for a company that sends you to Namibia for a conference! A final bookelt with details about travelling to Namibia, called, Namibia: Where incentives meet adventure. There is far too much in the bookelet to tell you everything so I won’t try to here. Lastly they sent a fact sheet. Telling readers about the capital, Windhoek and that the country has an area of 824.292 Square km. Much like The Gambia, the main language is English though there are 13 other dialects spoken. Again similarly to The Gambia there are 2.5 million people living in the country. Though as we can tell from the size of the country Namibia is far less densly populated being 8000% larger but having almost the same population. This is largely due to the fact that Namibia is far more arid than The Gambia. Interestingly their main export markets ade South Africa, China and the Eurozone with metals, such as gold and dimonds, Fish and Urainum being their main exports.
As there have been no other replies I feel this might be a good time to put the embassy adventure to rest. I have to say whilst I am over the moon to have even gotten one reply, I am slightly frustrated that I might have written the email wrongly as I mentioned in the day 4 update. This is reflected in the fact that I sent emails to 199 countries and provinces and recived only 11 responses. However, 11 is better than none so we look on the positive side!
Of course I will let you all know if there are any replies in the future but for now the Embassy Adventure is over. The next one is about to begin!
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