Liberia Travel Blogs

Eventful Weekend in Foya
Aug 20, 2007 (25 photos)

Saturday, Buddy, Keeley and myself decided to go see more of the Liberian countryside again. This time we wanted to hike up this mountain near a town called Foya-tengia, about 45 minutes from the SP Sub-office. Hopefully this trip wasn't going to give us ...

Newspaper Column 2
Dec 5, 2006 (4 photos)

... bad people out der from da war dat have to be brought to justice.  She'll find dem eventually."   I'm in Liberia for two weeks working for God's Kids with some of the thousands of orphans that are the product of war.  Some ...

Costa Rica
Nov 2, 2007

... on the way down to San Jose. Passing through the Costa Rica border from Nicaragua was pretty straight forward and I arrived in Liberia around 5pm. There didn´t seem to be much to the place really. Costa Rica is the most developed country in central America ...

Fun Comes Quickly
Aug 21, 2007

... drinks and great pizza, then called it a night. Mike thought there was a monster in our room... Now we are finally in Liberia, probably our last stop in Costa Rica before we head on to Nicaragua. Today was mostly bus rides, but during our lunch Mike ...

Rainforest Dreamin
Dec 20, 2006

Wanting to escape the hassle and hussle of the big city I decided to light out for Liberia a northern town in Costa Rica and jumping off point for various beaches rainforests as well as the Nicaraguan border. Peaceful cobbled streets and a pleasant ...

Så fandt jeg tid til at skrive igen.
Nov 3, 2008 (197 photos)

... der tog til Liberia for at shoppe, det var en rigtig god dag, og jeg må indrømme at jeg købte tøj. Suk ;)  Vi var i Liberia i ca. 5 timer, byen ligger en times kørsel herfra. Det er hyggeligt med de lidt kortere ture, hvor man ikke behøver at køre i bus en ...

First Weekend in Foya
Jul 15, 2007 (8 photos)

... of Foya, in Lofa County where I'll be until the end of August.  Lofa County is considered to be the bread basket of Liberia.  The country is very beautiful here and there is a large amount of farmers who live in this area.  This is also an ...

Liberia International Airport??
Jun 27, 2009 (3 photos)

After a 4 hour flight, we arrived at the Liberia International Airport.  Wow!!! It is not very big.  Really just one larger room / terminal.  Customs was easy and our driver Oscar was waiting for us.  It all went so smoothly we couldn't ...

After a month
Aug 3, 2007 (10 photos)

... it as they have more chickens than I do, which is true.   On July 26th, we had off work because it was Liberia's Independence Day.  Buddy, myself, and Keeley (a Canadian expat working in HIV/Aids education) decided to take a road trip to Mt. ...

LESCO
Jan 24, 2008 (8 photos)

This week I finally managed to get together with the friends that attend the congregation of LESCO (Costa Rican Sign Language) in Liberia, which is a 2 hour bus ride from Nicoya.  I met up with a missionary couple and another couple that are serving ...

home, work, and fish harvesting
Jul 5, 2007 (12 photos)

... when it involved the goats. I think there were like 20 takes of a man saying, "Thank you for the goat!" While I'm in Liberia I will be working with the water and sanitation programs. I leave a week from today, so next Thursday, to go to the town of ...

...and away we go.
Dec 9, 2006 (2 photos)

... in front of me.  I'd been enjoying the game of inter-american leapfrog as we'd made our way north, towards Liberia & eventually, home.  The guidebooks always mention how terrible & scary the driving is everywhere that I've visited, but ...

Ghana, Bopalu, and the Steelers
Sep 29, 2007 (19 photos)

... was a decent trip.  It was nice to see a different part of West Africa, but it was also very nice to return to Liberia.   I've really enjoyed my internship here in Liberia.  I believe I have only 6 weeks left in country before I return to ...

Frontiere Sierra Leone - Liberia
Dec 9, 2008 (4 photos)

Une frontiere est toujours interessante. Celle-ci m a marqué. Le coté liberien etait de type militaire avec des check-points impressionnants. Je ne pouvais donc que faire des photos de loin. Je retrouvais souvent dans ce pays ces chech-points gérés par l'onu ...

arrival in Monrovia!
Jan 15, 2007 (5 photos)

... woman traveling from the U.S. - she was working with CDC (the center for disease control) on some health surveys throughout liberia, focused on reproductive health for women. pretty interesting work... the road from the airport to the city is about an hour ...

death of a cockroach
Jan 18, 2007 (1 photos)

... 're so nasty.  anyway... glad its gone!  :)  whew.  what excitement. (in the words of my friend jeremy, who i IMed as i debated what to do, "had to know liberia would be dangerous, but couldn't have expected all this!!!"  

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

... pas possible de le faire et le douanier m a fort logiquement dit qu il ne peut pas me laisser passez. Hors ayant quitté vle Liberia, je ne pouvait retourner dans ce pays ni aller en Guinee. J etais donc coincé entre 2 frontieres et impossible d appeler le ...

Thoughts while in Liberia, an update
Jun 2, 2008

... on the highways. Ticos are very mobile people. You always see people going from major city to major city, Puntarenas to Liberia, San Jose to Puntarenas, Puntarenas to Monteverde....etc. very regularly. They work in these cities and regress to their own ...

oof, tough day
Jan 17, 2007 (3 photos)

you know its going to be a long day when your roommate knocks on your door to wake you after you snoozed through 3 alarms... yup, tack on a tummy ache and headache and the 8am-7pm day seems even longer!  anyway... i got a lot done though.  but ...

Curubande- Bubbling Mud Pits
Sep 6, 2009 (105 photos)

Curubande- Bubbling Mud Pits We decided to head back up North to a beautiful campsite that Christina and I stayed at our first night in Costa Rica. The campsite/hotel El Sol Verde is located 20 minutes outside of Rincon de la Vieja National Park and it ...

On our way....
May 14, 2008 (1 photos)

 

Goodbye Foya, Hello Ghana
Sep 4, 2007 (44 photos)

... days and leave for Ghana on the 9th for a little R&R and then off to Bopalu for the remainder of my time in Liberia.   I've really enjoyed my time here.  The people I've worked with have been great and the villages where I've worked have ...

We've arrived in Costa Rica
Feb 1, 2008 (2 photos)

... and waited at the airport and then got on the plane about 6:00am.  The plane flew first to Calgary and then on to Liberia.  The flight was long.  We arrived in Liberia about 5:00 in the afternoon. Our hostal is called Casa Real.  It ...

Liberia
May 25, 2009

Liberia started my two weeks traveling on my own without Tracy while she was in California. First I spent two uneventful days in this little town and there was not much was going on there. I tried to make the best of it, but honestly I was bored to tears ...

A load off my shoulders!
Oct 14, 2005

Well I successfully made it to Liberia with a suitcase full of stuff that would set any Costa Rican thief for a week (but I must say that the ride was rather stressful). The exchange went well and I sent Juliana off back to Honduras with everything she ...

Back to Liberia
Feb 16, 2008 (4 photos)

Saturday Feb. 15 - Back to Liberia then on to Granada We took a bus from Playa Hermosa and it was late. We went to Liberia and went to a restaurant called El Pilon, we waited there while Daddy looked for a hotel that Rosa recommended. The ...

beach party!
Jan 27, 2007 (14 photos)

... - man its been so long since i've been out dancing!).  people were commenting on how they almost forgot that they were in liberia.  indeed, monrovia has been full of surprises.  i never would've expected to be partying on the beach, or having sushi or indian ...

Monrovia
Dec 10, 2008 (2 photos)

Une capitale que je voulais quitter au plus vite. Logement trop cher (50 dollars apres une dure negociation - prix de depart 65-75 dollars), et peu d interet et une securite toute relative.

meetings and more meetings! but all good stuff
Jan 16, 2007

this was one day full of meetings, meetings, and more meetings... but pretty interesting.  learned about a lot about USAID's work and the needs/situations in a lot of sectors.  crazy how in almost every sector, the system seems ...

Masaya to Liberia and Home
Aug 8, 2007

... they just opened my bag, and then waved me along. i jumped back on the bus and started to watch a movie, only to find that liberia was much closer than i thought. Considering it took us 14 hours to get to Ometepe, i thought it would take at least 8 to get ...