Conakry, Guinea Travel Blogs

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

... à la Réunion ou bien en Angola dans quelques années ? On se reverra bien sûr, permaculteurs je l'espère bien.   Conakry começa com uma barreira policial ao km 36. Desta vez eram militares que la estavam, indicando um pouco a tensão que ...

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 ...

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)

... '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.  I already have 3 bites.  The food ...

A true horror story...
Jul 1, 2008

... where the regional coordinator was waiting to take me to the Kankan house. So I'm still sick apparently. Which is why I'm in Conakry. But other than that I've been doing really good. The last week at site I gave two sensitizations on breastfeeding and how ...

Mini-vacation
Jan 30, 2008

So I'm visiting Conakry on a mini vacation.  I was supposed to have blood drawn yesterday in Forecariah to test for anemia but the supplies were forgotten so here I am!  This last week has been absolutely wild.  I left my site and traveled ...

Merry Christmas
Dec 24, 2007 (2 photos)

... my clothes on a washboard left me very sore) and it's hard on my brain.  Trying to speak another language all the time really gives me a headache. But I wouldn't trade this for anything. This is exactly what I want. I love life here and I love Guinea!

Guinea: The Sequel
Jan 25, 2007 (9 photos)

... in the Gambia. Our very last night was spent in a beach hut right on the ocean on a tiny island off the coast of Conakry. By the time we boarded our plane back to Gambia I was too relaxed to even worry about putting my life back in the hands of ...

Culture Shock
Apr 20, 2008

Hi. I'm in Conakry. It's good to be here. The Lower Haute people took the World Food Program flight from Kissidougou to Conakry so instead of a 15 hour bush taxi ride it was a 2 hour comfortable plane ride. Good stuff. I'm really happy to be here; I needed ...

Guinea - Part 1
Jan 12, 2007 (9 photos)

... from ear to ear as he bobbed around on his cushion in the waterlogged wreckage of his plane. I found Conakry, the capital city of Guinea, completely overwhelming. The sheer size and volume is just something so far removed from my experiences in ...

Officially a Volunteer
Feb 11, 2008

So I've been in Conakry since February 6th and I leave tomorrow.  It has been absolutely fabulous! Hot running water, hamburgers (granted it's no Wendy's or Steak and Shake, but it's better than nothing), pizza (also not Dominos but amazing ...

In memory of...
Jul 22, 2008 (4 photos)

... office in Forecariah at 8:00PM to just talk and be with other Americans. We got sick at the same time and were taken to Conakry together for a nice vacation from training.  But what I really love about Katie is that she's never afraid to say what's on ...

Conakry
Dec 21, 2006 (19 photos)

... of Sareboido. We were of two minds as to either find a large town with somewhere to sleep or to continue to Conakry, the capital of Guinea. We soon found out it didn't really matter what we wanted because at that moment no taxis were going anywhere. ...

World Map Project
Nov 20, 2008 (5 photos)

... a lot longer. So much has happened. The return has been difficult emotionally. When I left I was adjusted to the craziness that is Guinea. Then back in the states, after the first shower and night in a real bed, it was like I'd never left. But then coming ...

I'M COMING HOME
Sep 29, 2008 (2 photos)

... changed...not necessarily worse, but definitely different. For your sake, I am enclosing a brief instruction manual for the "Guinea-anized" SIA KAMANO:   1.      She may lapse into Malinke, or French and maybe even Arabic ...

The Wedding
Oct 20, 2008 (8 photos)

... to write a good blog in Paris. I go back up country tomorrow so I thought I'd take a stab at writing today before I leave Conakry. My whole purpose in going back to America was to be in the wedding of my childhood friend Leah. We met when I moved to ...

Conakry, its environs and Ahmed Sekou Toure
Sep 15, 2006 (3 photos)

Humidity and heat went hand-in-hand on the runway of Conakry airport. We could see the wide, long red carpet from quite high and the brass instruments of the military band were alarmingly glittering left down on the cement surface while the guardsmen were ...

3 years in African Land !
Apr 22, 2008

It was my LUCK! After graduation a friend of mine told me that this co is looking for new staff to be based in Africa. WOW! That is awesome! Immediately I attend for interview. After 2 weeks (and after few times I called the manager) I got the job! Yayyy ...

Guinea
Jan 13, 2009

... next day, which is when the rebel threat was announced ... but I didn't find that out until we had made it back to Conakry. Sangbarala was unlike anything I have ever seen, a village of thatched mud huts on a river that joins the Niger. The dust and ...