Tanji Fishing Village
Tanji Village (also spelt Tanjeh or Tanje), often called the Tanji Fishing Village, is a town in Gambia, along the Atlantic coast, in the northern section of the Kombo South District, West Coast Region of The Gambia, in West Africa. The settlement is 30km by road from the capital of Banjul, and approximately 12km southwest of Kololi resort, and adjacent to the Kombo Coastal Road. The main ethnic groups are Mandinka, Wolof, Jola, and Serer, the last group are traditionally the fisherfolk, while the former are generally engaged in farming, crafts and petty trading. The village centre is located about 1km from the main fishing bay.
To the north of Tanji fishing village, after the bridge, is the Karinti Bird Reserve, where the coastline has a few sand bars and lagoons, where the beach is far cleaner and relatively deserted, but access is often hindered by dense, scrub woodland. About 1km south of the fishing village, the bay's strand is more of what you would expect as holiday standard; clean, white sands, backed by a strip of palms and shoreline scrub. You will see the occasional passerby or meandering herd of cows.
To the north of the main settlement the area is characterised by riverine mangroves of the Tanji River, sand banks, salt-flats lagoons, lily pools, dry woodland, and coastal dune scrub. To the south of the river are residential compounds, interspersed with trees, farmland, shoreline fisheries structures, and strand. The village's main road leads inland from the main freeway, which itself passes close to the Atlantic Ocean, just south of the small, mangrove-fringed river.
