Bijilo Forest Park Travel Guide: Top Sights in Gambia, Tours & Travel

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Bijilo Forest Park- Travel Tips What to See, How to Plan & Tours: Natural Scenery; Gambia; 5 Reviews

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Suggested Duration: 2 hours

Bijilo Forest Park, also known as Monkey Park, is a 51.3-hectare forest reserve located 11 km west of Banjul, near the Senegambia area of Kololi. Established in 1952 and opened to the public in 1991, the park features a mix of forest, coastal scrubland, and sand dunes. It is home to diverse wildlife, including green monkeys, red colobus, and diverse birdlife, including over 133 species, it also hosts reptiles like monitor lizards and insects such as golden silk orb-weavers. A 4.5 km nature trail and designated footpaths allow visitors to explore its varied habitats. While the park offers opportunities for birdwatching, its fauna also includes mammals like the Senegal bushbaby and Gambian sun squirrel. The park, partially reduced in 2018 for conference center construction, remains a notable spot for nature walks and birdwatching.

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Reviews of Bijilo Forest Park

Taiyo S

5
Reviewed: 2024-10-22

The stunning deep forest and close interactions with monkeys. I highly recommend having a tour guide (1000D)bc we wouldn’t have known how to feed peanuts and banana and taken a secret hiking trail without the staff Suleiman.
Carla Rodrigues

5
Reviewed: 2024-02-15

Nice park to see and feed the monkeys With 2 species of monkeys : red and green . The walk is nice near the beach
Magdalena Ziółek-Wojnar

4
Reviewed: 2023-08-12

It's nice and lots of monkeys live there. It surprises me that the staff encourages you to buy peanuts or bananas, claiming that otherwise you will not see the monkeys. It's not true. Anyway, it's not good to feed animals in the reserves!
Tracey Dennison

5
Reviewed: 2022-12-10

This must be one of the best trips i have done! The monkeys are actually in their own habitat they are not caged in any way. They are absolutely loads of monkeys here, and the babies are just absolutely adorable you can feed the mokeys they sell nuts at the reception (a little tip, i took bananas still in their skins cut up in my bag, they absolutely love them) it was just amazing, and a trip i would do again and again! ❤️
Marta Capova

5
Reviewed: 2022-04-25

It’s a part of Monkey forest (but monkeys seems to stay closer to the entrance) and pretty pleasant walk. We tried to reach beach but unfortunately the path has end and as I am afraid of snakes I decided to walk back (yes there could and probably are!). I didn’t take a guide this time as it is super easy to walk there and it was my second time.