Country Info
- Conakry
- Capital
- Guinean Franc (GNF)
- Currency
- 7,613,870
- Population
- GN
- Country Code
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Top Hotels in Guinea
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Novotel GHI Conakry
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Hotel Camayene - Guinea Conakry
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Hotel del Niger Conakry
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Le Meridien Mariador Palace Conakry
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Riviera Royal Hotel Conakry
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This is a top pick! I went to PNG with the Army to trek from Dumpu to Bom, over the Shaggy Ridge range and then dive a Madang. It was an amazing trip. We were the 6th group of white people to walk through that area since World War 2. I couldn't dive so I spent the week in ...
Milne Bay
Next I headed to the coastal town of Alotau in Milne Bay. I spent the first day looking around town. There was a colorful market with lots of fruits, vegetables and fish, and of course everyone's favorite here-betelnut, which gives the locals ...
Exactly half way!!!!!
... some of the old planes, etc. There are only 10 or so cruise ships a year entereing this only port area for Papua New Guinea. People were walking across the gray land from all over to see the cruise ship visitors. They were very friendly with very few ...
Another a volcano!
... New Guinea until captured by the British Commonwealth during World War I, when it became the capital of the Australian mandated Territory of New Guinea until 1937. During World War II it was captured by the Japanese in 1942, and it became the main base of ...
Pas facile la route, mais ça se passe bien
Denouveau des routes avec des rigoles un peu partout. La pluie tombe abondamment, parfois même j'ai conduit sous les grosses averses, ... mais j'ai beaucoup apprécié, la fraicheur et surtout ces paysages incroyables du Fouta (vraiment un coin à ...
Pire que les moustiques : le ronflement
Je suis de retour donc à Koundara, sans la moto !! et je n'ai plus trop de franc guinéen etc... alors je dors dehors sur une natte avec des routards que j'avais rencontré plusieurs fois en route depuis Nzérékoré ! Heureusement y'a pas trop de ...
After a month
It has felt so good to start working and getting my hands dirty. I've been working for the past three weeks here in Foya and we have completed the installation of filters in two villages and are building filters in another village. I believe ...
Travellers in a hostile land
After reading various guidebooks and talking to other travellers we had hoped to bypass Moresby during our visit to PNG. However, with sporadic flight schedules that is an unrealistic desire. So it was in the early hours of the morning we left our secure ...
Two Braids are Enough for Me
I woke up early to take my last warm shower before we headed into "the bush." I braided my hair, hoping it would disguise any dirtiness. I donned the skirt Allison gave me for Christmas along with a turquoise shirt-for my 'Aéropostale goes to Africa' ...
African Safari
... in a cage that was pulled by a truck-almost like a hayride with a roof to shade us from the sun. We saw bushbuck, waterbuck, guinea fowl, and a chick-like bird (a stone partridge?). Our guide sat on the roof of the cab and when he spotted the animal, he ...
EATING HEALTHY IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
... , calls him the "grandfather of eco-tourism in Thailand." The following is his adventure as a tourism consultant in Papua New Guinea. Hired to help tribal villagers set up village tourism, he had a great adventure, but the trip revealed how hard it ...
Day 89 - Crew Talent Show
We'd been awaiting this day for a long time. The crew's talent show had been advertised with a lot of notice and the whole ship was buzzing for it. I got the impression this was the crew's one chance to be real (or as real as can be achieved in a ...
Entree du Fouta Djalon
On remarque tout de suite la transition avec la guinee bissau. Pas de route mais des pistes rouges qui oblige a nettoyer tout vos habits et vos sacs tous les jours. Et il fait frais pendant les nuits car on est a plus de 1000 m d ...
Big road trip today
Monday 27th Transfer to Garoka in the eastern highlands today, up and out early with Brian the driver and the guide to Pym's guest house in Mount Hagen where we transferred to a 12 seater mini bus for the road trip to Garoka, the bus was brand new, so no ...
Kindness and frustration
Today, has been characterized by random acts of kindness and interminable frustrations. After travelling to Lae so that we might catch the ferry to Kimbe in the west or Alotau in the southeast we find a startling problem at the Rabaul Ferry booking ...
Bissau
L appareil photo a été volé, après avoir bu la tasse. Donc pas de photo. Cette ville possede un jolie centre ville et surtout les fameuses barco qui vont vers les iles bijagos. Ce sont les memes barques qu utilisent les clandestins pour aller vers ...
Gambia to Guinea Bissau
... heard of Guinea-Bissau and even the Foreign Office website said, "Few British tourists visit here". As Britain doesn't even have a Guinea-Bissau consulate, I was prepared for some delay in just getting a visa sorted; so leaving a day early seemed a ...
Frontiere Liberia -Guinée
Je me rappelerai longtemps de cette frontiere. En effet, j avais appris qu il etait possible d avoir un visa a la frontiere guinenne ( et l ai vu chez un voyageur et un douanier me l a confirmé), mais a ce petit poste frontiere il n etait pas possible ...
Conakry (Fr+Pt)
Entrée de Conakry, au km 36, les berets rouges veulent nous faire chier pensant qu'ils peuvent nous faire peur pour prendre un petit pourboire. Je n'aime pas leur attitude et j'en ai strictement rien à foutre. Voyant que l'on était tous munis de nos ...
Hippos
Enfin j ai pu voir les hippos. Un petit coin charmant pres d une riviere. Presqu aucun ...
Reflexão final sobre a Guiné Bissau
A Guiné Bissau deu pena dum coro. Curti bwé as pessoas, são puras, mas senti uma burrice igual a nossa, os mangolês, também a infectar a possibilidade de qualquer futuro proximo risonho. O pais esta completamente sem corrente eléctrica ha mais de 2 ...
Tentative source fleuve Niger
Je voulais les sources du Niger, mais un cretin de policier m a empeche. Tant ...
Sorry Mate we've booked your room to someone else
I loved PNG The people were kind, generous and polite. I arrived with the stories echoing in my head of murder and mayhem and believed it once I had set my eyes on the tall barbed wire fences covered in red beetle nut spit, more protection ...
Meeting the chief and his pigs, and his wives.
Sunday 26th Sep Up early and ready for our day's adventure. First stop was in Paiya at the sprit house, Here we heard lots of stories about spirit sticks and other things that the chief would use to talk to the spirit world ( think he also smoked ...
Orango - Bijagos
Cette ile est un parc national qui protège des hippopotames de mer qui sont très facilement accessibles. On marge ainsi dans des mangroves ou près d un lac pour atteindre a oins de 10 m ces créatures qui tuent plus d humain que les lions. On est ...
messing about on the river
Friday 1st Oct Up and out in the Canoe by 04:30, bit of a late start because the skipper didn't turn up on time. It was still pitch black as we got into the canoe, i am not sure how these guys manage to steer the canoe in the dark with only a small ...
Small World
You'll never guess what happened at dinner last night. Some of my co-horts and I were sitting around the table just finishing eating and talking and laughing and having general fun on our last night together before taking off this morning for our ...
Restorf island
A number of marine Biologists are staying at Walindi. However, they are here for land based research and as such we have the dive boat to ourselves. A late start allows us to avoid most of the seasonal monsoon that has been unseasonably lacking this year ...