Gambia Travel Guide
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The Gambia keeps entry simple for a genuinely wide list, ECOWAS citizens need only a valid travel document, and the broader visa free list stretches to the UK, all EU members, many Commonwealth countries including Australia and Canada, plus a handful of specifically named others like Iceland, Indonesia, Luxembourg, Morocco, and Finland. Every visitor arriving through Banjul International Airport pays a Securiport fee, 1,000 Gambian dalasi or 20 US dollars, charged both on arrival and departure, with diplomats and children aged 2 and under exempted, and the fee accepted in dollars, euros, British pounds, or local currency.
For nationalities not on the visa free list, a visa on arrival is available at Banjul airport for 108 US dollars cash, an amount the sources describe as subject to change, worth confirming a current figure before you travel. The basic entry stamp itself is free, whether at the airport or the overland border posts at Amdalai and Giboro, and a passport needs at least one blank page for it.
Border crossings
- Banjul International Airport
The main gateway, where the Securiport fee is collected both coming and going, and where the visa on arrival option operates for nationalities that need one.
- Amdalai and Giboro, the overland border posts
The land crossings where the same free entry stamp applies, relevant for travelers arriving from Senegal, which surrounds the Gambia almost entirely.
Transit routes
- Budget the Securiport fee twice, arrival and departure
Twenty dollars each way, worth having ready in whichever accepted currency is most convenient rather than assuming it is a one-time charge.
- Confirm the current visa on arrival fee before you travel
The 108 dollar figure is explicitly described as subject to change, check a recent source close to your trip.
Entry point notes
- A genuinely broad visa free list
ECOWAS nationals plus a long list of others, worth checking your own passport's status before assuming a visa is needed.
- The entry stamp itself costs nothing
The Securiport and visa on arrival fees are the real costs to budget for, not the basic immigration stamp.