| ABOUT
THIS TRAVEL
Guinea-
Sierra Leone
14 days, December 07- January 08
INTRO GUINEA
Kind of travel:
Alone in a 100% independent travel
When:
24th Dec07- 05th
Jan08
How
I moved: shared taxis and minibus reach most of the
villages and the main roads are paved, but still travelling
is a pain since one seat is at least for two people (and maybe
with one child)
Freezing
or baking?: Dry
season (Dec- Jan) is the best period of the year to visit the
country. It's hot (24-28 C) and a little humid, but never unpleasantly
Where
I slept: no shortage of cheap guesthouses, however
electricity and running water are unreliable
What
I liked: the 100km by motorbike through the remote
area from Kabala (Sierra Leone) to Faranah and the tasty Guilluxe
beer!!
What I disliked:
the bribing
culture spread everywhere,
the awful Conakry and the 8h travel pressed like hell being
4 people in the front row of a Peugeot 505
How much
daily: 250km by shared taxi 7$, a double room 5-8$.
Amazingly I found the food as costy as accommodations (chicken
and rise: 5$)!! Averagely it makes around 25-30$/day
Dangers/
hassles: Three
risks: malaria (I took Lariam), the strikes against the dictator
Contè and the main one, the car crashes.
What
to bring: a flash lamp, a mosquito-net and a handy
French dictionary
THE
TRAVEL IN GUINEA
[Entering
from Sierra Leone]
In Kabala I organised the 100km motorbike trip
across the remote region of Sierra Leone bordering with Guinea.
The next day I left early, and it was a loooong day. (read
about it)
More than a road it turned out to be a trail, where few parts
were diffult even by a powerful motorbike. Changing bike at
the border and passing several check-points I made it to the
Guinean town of Faranah where I took a shared taxi to Mamou
(3h)
From here easily I reached Dabala, a good place where to settle
down to do some walks in the Fouta Djalon region. This is a
bucolic hilly area plenty of waterfalls, easy tracks and several
possibilities to sleep in the villages.
From Mamou it took terrible 8 hours packed with other 4 people
on the front seats of a Peoguet 505 to get to Conakry. Here,
after experiencing the tear-gases shot by the militaries to
some riots against the dictator Condè, I flew back home.
Alby
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