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Location :
C/O Post Office, Bakau Newtown
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Opening Hours

  • Monday 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
  • Tuesday 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
  • Wednesday 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
  • Thursday 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
  • Friday 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
  • Saturday 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
  • Sunday 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM

17 Reviews

  • Anynomous
    03 March 2018

    On the plus side the very small museum at the entrance is interesting and the admission fee to the pool is only a few dalasi.
    On the negative side the small crocodile pool is a stagnant, smelly, slime filled hole. The crocs seem unusually docile and are coloured slime green. There is no way this pool is used for “healing or fertility rituals” The Crocs might be docile but that water would definitely do you some serious harm.

  • Anynomous
    28 February 2018

    Good guide of the crocs and you can see the crocs from very close and you can even touch them.

  • Anynomous
    24 January 2018

    This is an amazing place to visit... very friendly and well informed staff... well and very friendly crocodiles...

  • Anynomous
    28 December 2017

    Great place to see crocodiles face to face. Crocs are well fed, calm and safe to watch and even touch.

  • Anynomous
    21 December 2017

    This place is believed to be a sacred place by the locals who come and use the crocodile pool water to bath for fertility purposes ,our guide explained to us that the place was founded by the Bojang family in bakou 500 hundred years ago ,and that all sorts of people at different work appointed places come there to seek blessings,all in all it was a vary interesting tour ,or and we saw great big trees too ,the only down side was we couldn't go to the lower side of the pool because the crocodiles have new babies and are a bit aggressive because of motherly instincts which we were all happy to respect..

  • Anynomous
    15 December 2017

    Not advisable to go on your own take taxi. The guides are friendly you pay 250 dalasi each. Plus they expect tip. The pool is not big you get to touch crocodile's the whole experience last half an hour.
    It's in a very poor area with open sewers leading to park.

  • Anynomous
    17 November 2017

    Had to walk past 2 fighting crocodiles to see CHARLIE
    Well worth the bike ride there was a while back tho

  • Anynomous
    04 November 2017

    The place is well organized and protected by the local community men in that area daily, monthly and yearly.

  • Anynomous
    25 August 2017

    Kachikally Pool cool and friendly staff.

  • Anynomous
    21 July 2017

    Stupid cheap.. i think it costed about 75p for two people plus a guide and driver. You can't ask for more than this. Really cool museum too!

  • Anynomous
    08 June 2017

    THE BEST PLACE TO VISIT WHILE IN GAMBIA

  • Anynomous
    26 May 2017

    The only place to touch real life crocodiles. Kachikally has about 300 plus crocks and the area as been in existence for over 300 years. The natives belief in the healing powers of the pool as women who are barren go their to pray. This site also has a museum,depicting the history of Bakau and the Gambian cultures.

  • Anynomous
    28 February 2017

    IT WAS ...AWSOME!!!🐊

  • Anynomous
    20 January 2017

    I visited the crocodile pool 21 years ago now and it's an experience I'll never forget. It was way before it was a tourist attraction. I had a tour of the pool with Charlie the crocodile and even had a picture taken with him! The locals used to throw in hundreds of raw chickens every day to appease the Croc's!

    It was a wonderful experience that I very much doubt I'd dare repeat now!

    We were also taken to a near by Sacred Tree where rituals were carried out.

    I am sure there is more safety now but I would add it to anyone's Bucket List.

  • Anynomous
    09 January 2017

    I really enjoyed visiting Kachikally Museum and Crocodile Pool, I was pleased to hear that the Crocodiles were well feed, which made them lazy and tired, except for one. I kept my distance from that one.

  • Anynomous
    13 November 2016

    Great place to get to see crodiles up and very close to you,charlie is the best.

  • Anynomous
    17 September 2016

    Very obvious that they are all drugged up as you can practically sit on them for photos- I would prefer to see them in there natural state (from a safe distance). Wont be going back.