At Cape Point there are a few hotels on a beach, arguably superior to the main Atlantic ocean beach, which is home to most of the hotels in the country. In town there are a few guest houses . Welcome to the Ocean View Apartments located on Fajara’s Leybato beach, in The Gambia, offering spectacular sea views unsurpassed by any other private, self-catering accommodation. The luxury apartments are situated on the waterfront just off the prestigious and exclusive Atlantic Boulevard. The hotel’s pool - “the smallest and the cleanest pool in The Gambia” - provides a focal point in the beautiful garden. Drinks and snacks are available around the pool throughout the day.
Bakau is mainly a working beach as you will see by the fishing boats called pirogues and the jetty that is used to haul in the catch. They mostly catch a fish called bonga here and most of it is taken to the smokehouses located on the shore. Bakau is useful, simple, transforming and persuasive. Tucked away on a low cliff between the mouth of the River Gambia and the Atlantic Ocean, Bakau is a small, densely populated coastal town with a good scattering of pleasant hotels. Its western and eastern enclaves, Fajara and Cape Point, are well-to-do havens for diplomats, professionals and expats, while central Bakau (home to fishermen, cooks and musicians) is a maze of crowded compounds where chickens and children scurry to and fro under the mango and pawpaw trees.
