At my last stay, I made this picture in Lemon Creek Hotel in Bijilo. It’s another good, green idea: they look like 
solar panels, but they are water heating panels with really thin tubes in which water is pumped through into a tank underground. The panels are exposed to sun and heat all day long and I can tell from experience: the water is hot! And it’s wonderfully luxurious to have a hot shower in a hot country like the Gambia once in a while. I stayed in many hotels -even 5 stars- and lodges in the Gambia over the years and Lemon Creek Hotel is my favorite. The hotel left a part of the original forest intact, so the surroundings are beautiful. The staff is really happy and proud to work there, the management is very competent and creative and the hotel promotes sustainability by just doing it. It even has its own organic vegetable garden and livestock. So the food can’t be any fresher, and the boiled eggs at breakfast can’t be any creamier..
solar panels, but they are water heating panels with really thin tubes in which water is pumped through into a tank underground. The panels are exposed to sun and heat all day long and I can tell from experience: the water is hot! And it’s wonderfully luxurious to have a hot shower in a hot country like the Gambia once in a while. I stayed in many hotels -even 5 stars- and lodges in the Gambia over the years and Lemon Creek Hotel is my favorite. The hotel left a part of the original forest intact, so the surroundings are beautiful. The staff is really happy and proud to work there, the management is very competent and creative and the hotel promotes sustainability by just doing it. It even has its own organic vegetable garden and livestock. So the food can’t be any fresher, and the boiled eggs at breakfast can’t be any creamier..