Guinea Travel Blogs

Countries that I have also been to
Apr 3, 2006

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
Jun 27, 2008 (9 photos)

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 a ...

After a month
Aug 3, 2007 (10 photos)

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 ...

Kono
Oct 6, 2007

Day 7 - Visit Kono amputees

Two Braids are Enough for Me
Jan 4, 2008

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' day. ...

African Safari
Jan 3, 2008

... 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 ...

Conakry (Fr+Pt)
Nov 27, 2008 (5 photos)

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 ...

Day 89 - Crew Talent Show
Dec 3, 2007

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 ...

Reflexão final sobre a Guiné Bissau
Nov 8, 2008 (4 photos)

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 anos, Gabu ...

Entree du Fouta Djalon
Nov 28, 2008 (2 photos)

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 altitude.

Gambia to Guinea Bissau
Nov 7, 2007 (12 photos)

... as part of life.  I made light of my walk past what I thought was a war memorial but in 2005 the Guinea-Bissau government destroyed a stockpile of 10,654 landmines.  In March 2006, 13 women were killed by these dreadful things when a lorry, ...

Bissau
Nov 18, 2008

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 les iles ...

Frontiere Liberia -Guinée
Dec 11, 2008 (5 photos)

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 de ...

Hippos
Dec 3, 2008 (23 photos)

Enfin j ai pu voir les hippos. Un petit coin charmant pres d une riviere. Presqu aucun touriste.

Tentative source fleuve Niger
Dec 14, 2008

Je voulais les sources du Niger, mais un cretin de policier m a empeche. Tant pis.

Ships the sea and all that surrounds ...
Dec 23, 2002

Ships the sea and all that surrounds them...........the world all over. Travel the World all over as Ieuan Dolby has done for the last fifteen Years. Anything and everything of cultures and outbacks than many do not know exist. All is revealed in his " ...

Orango - Bijagos
Nov 21, 2008

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 assuré de les ...

Small World
Sep 19, 2005

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 ...

Ile Anobone
Mar 27, 2009

J ai eut la bonne surprise d un arret a Annobone, une petite ile paradisiaque qui appartient a la guinne equatoriale. On a pu descendre de l avion. Comme cela je peux dire que j etais en Guinee equatorial.

Bokuando na Tabanka
Nov 8, 2008 (9 photos)

Heis-me do lado da primeira fronteira onde o português é a lingua oficial. Assim que digo que sou angolano os sorrisos abrem muito, mas o português era altamente arranhado, chamaram o Fernando, que tinha ar de ser o mais estudado e que me disse « não vais ...

Gbangbadou and me
Mar 1, 2008 (4 photos)

Week 3. Welcome to my life.  This is going to be long one so prepare yourself.  I would walk you through a typical day in my life but as that does not exist, I cannot.  Currently I'm sitting in my mud hut, known as a case (pronounced ...

Work Begins
Apr 29, 2008

So my first three months of community integration are almost over.  I'm glad too.  I've made my hut as comfortable as possible with the funding I've been given and the materials available.  It now lacks a foam mattress (I have bed bugs in ...

Knock on wood
Dec 7, 2007 (2 photos)

I used up all my "knock on wood" sayings.  I told about 5 people that I have not yet gotten sick; you may remember that from the last blog... Ok well, I'm sick. Like really sick. Food poisening is what I've been told. I woke up at 2:30 AM ...

Hi from Conakry
Dec 7, 2007 (4 photos)

Wow, I'm here in the capital of Guinea.  It's amazing but not what I expected at all.  We are spending the first couple days in a compound in the captial city of Conakry.  I live in a room with 7 other girls, on a bunk bed with mosquito net ...

Rollercoaster
Jun 20, 2009 (21 photos)

... Labe and now that I see how far in the bush it is, I might never have made it. Douki is a village overlooking Guinea's "Grand Canyon". It rests on a plateau overlooking a valley surrounded by other plateaus. A Guinean names Hassan has set up his home in ...

A true horror story...
Jul 1, 2008

Disclaimer: for all you faint of heart, weak stomach or prone to queasiness you may want to stop reading here.  This is a true horror story and it ranks an 8 on the disgust-o-meter. You have been warned.  This is the story of how was inducted ...

Things are looking up...finally
Jan 31, 2009 (4 photos)

I've now been in Gbangbadou two weeks shy of a year. And I finally feel like things are coming along. I'm glad Peace Corps service is two years. I've heard a lot of friends and acquaintances stateside say they'd like to do Peace Corps but two years is ...

Mini-vacation
Jan 30, 2008

... forgotten so here I am!  This last week has been absolutely wild.  I left my site and traveled to Kankan, the Haute Guinea regional capital.  The Peace Corps car picked me up and I'm so glad it did because that was the worst road I've ever ...

Happy St. Patty's Day
Mar 17, 2008 (2 photos)

Happy St. Patty's Day.  I'm in Kankan, my regional capital with all the Haute Guinea volunteers to celebrate.  It is so great to see everyone and hear about their experience and to know that I am not alone.  I have now been at site a ...

fishin' for food
Jan 7, 2006

Hello! I hope a pleasant Holiday season was had by all! I found my way back to Kolda yesterday on the 13 hour car ride from Kedegou with only one slight incident. Tabaski (Jan 10th) is the largest of the Muslim holidays and generally includes the ...