Country Info
- Conakry
- Capital
- Guinean Franc (GNF)
- Currency
- 7,613,870
- Population
- GN
- Country Code
Conakry Slideshow
Top Hotels in Conakry
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Novotel GHI Conakry
84 reviews -
Hotel Camayene - Guinea Conakry
7 reviews -
Hotel del Niger Conakry
1 review -
Le Meridien Mariador Palace Conakry
15 reviews
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Riviera Royal Hotel Conakry
24 reviews
Conakry
Travel Blogs from Conakry, Guinea
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Conakry (Fr+Pt)
... 'union 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 ...
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 ...
Knock on wood
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
... ; 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. I already have 3 bites. The ...
A true horror story...
... 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 ...
Mini-vacation
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
... 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: The Sequel
... 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
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 ...
Guinea - Part 1
... 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
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...
... milk, flour, etc. It was a symbiotic relationship that worked out well. She was always so chill about everything. We got lost in Conakry- no big deal. Waiting 8 hours for a taxi-relax, where else do we have to be? But she does not like spiders, actually ...
World Map Project
... 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 ...
I'M COMING HOME
... to you 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 ...
Goodbye Forecariah
... . That should cover quite a bit. I got a complet made for the Farewell Ceremony in Forecariah and Swearing In in Conakry. The fabric cost 50,000 Guinean Francs (GF), expensive because it's dentalle. Dentalle is a thick fabric usually with ...
The Wedding
... euros 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 ...
Conakry
... 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. ...
Grand mosque (Conakry, Guinea)
The Conakry Grand Mosque (French: Grande mosquée de Conakry / Mosquée Fayçal) is a mosque in Conakry, Guinea. It was built by Ahmed Sékou Touré. It is the largest in West Africa. ...
Conakry, its environs and Ahmed Sekou Toure
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 ...
Christmas Greetings from Conakry
... it was a farce getting it but worth it for the artificially cooled air and chance to read something in English. Conakry and Guinea are really friendly. My French is improving rapidly and good enough for numerous coffee stall chats. People always ...
Landed in Africa!
18 hours later I found myself in Africa with someone's cat!! This is where it is going to get interesting. Guinea is known for numerous delays mainly if not always, because it is corrupt there and everyone is taking bribes- and that is on a ...
3 years in African Land !
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! ...
Guinea
... 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 ...
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