Country Info
- Conakry
- Capital
- Guinean Franc (GNF)
- Currency
- 7,613,870
- Population
- GN
- Country Code
Guinea Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Guinea
Guinea: The Sequel
... hands. Between the Martian-women and the vast numbers of militia based there, Labe was a surreal community. Transparency International ranks Guinea as the most corrupt country in the world but outside of army checkpoints, I saw little of this - ...
Disaster strikes...again
I was recently told I am the epitome of Murphy's Law. I'm starting to believe it. Yesterday was a good day. I painted a mural advertising the moringa garden in preparation for World Malaria Day on April 25th (We'll be giving out moringa powder to all the ...
PNG let the adventure begin
Sat 25th Sep Off to PNG. Connie drove us to the airport after cooking us a great breakfast. Cairns airport is very quiet and civilised and we checked in for our air Nuigini flight to port Moresby. The flight was really empty just 20 people in a big plane ...
The babies are here
... say. It's kind of a lot pressure. I'm naturally a very honest person so I've found it hard keeping certain feelings about Guinea from them. But they are just babies in Guinea. In the states you wouldn't tell a baby or young child about prostitution or ...
Site Visit Round Two
G-16 arrived on July 10th and began their training shortly after. They are the first group of education volunteers since the evacuation. There are 25 of them and they will either be teaching English, physics, chemistry or math. Four days ago G-15 (my ...
Happy Mother's Day
... Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP). The total cost of the conferences will be $7,690. Towns and villages throughout Guinea, the female participants and their families, and local NGOs and government officials will be providing $1,940. ...
A tropical submersion
One month down and one week to go! Time flies even without television. I went to the markets on Saturday and stocked up on fish, mud crabs, crayfish and tropical fruits/vegetables before I head back home and have to hand over an arm and leg for seafood. ...
Officially a Volunteer
... . Yesterday most of the volunteers left for their regional capital. It was really sad to see everyone leave. People in Haute Guinea I'll get to see once a month which is awesome but everyone in Fouta and Basse Cote I won't see again until ...
The island way of life
"Ladies and Gentlemen,welcome to Kavieng! I remind you that it against the law to chew betel nut on the tarmac." I made it into Kavieng yesterday evening after a night at Brisbane airport and a whole day of flying. Somehow managed to make it through ...
Penetrando na outra Guiné (Fr+Pt)
Voilà donc que je me retrouve avec un couple français (réunionais, j'insiste quand même) qui n'hésite pas à m'offrir une place dans sa bagnole. Ils habitent en Conakry depuis 1 an et demi. Dorothée travaille pour le lycée français et Thomas ...
Guinea - Part 1
... 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 Gambia that I just ...
MAIL RUN
I am writing this in my hut at a moment of pure contentment. This, as you know, is rare and therefore very special. Since my blogs have been rather depressing lately I decided now would be a good time to write. Don't worry you sadists out there, I have ...
East to Kokopo
Today, we leave the splendor of Kimbe Bay and head for Kokopo on the north coast of New Britain. Our journey to the airport takes about an hour, over well maintained road. With few villages we pass an almost continuously rolling vista of Palm Oil ...
Relaxed Alotau
With scenes from the terrible earthquake and Tsunami in Japan appearing vividly on our in-room TV (a relatively rare luxury in PNG!) we prepare to leave Kokopo for Alotau. Our early morning flight leaves some 45 minutes late. No reason is given but it ...
Bazando da Tabanka
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 ...
Batmen's paradise
Our flight to Port Moresby was cancelled so we had to stay an extra night in Tufi and enjoy our last Lobster meal. As the flight left the next morning early enough to connect with our flight to Kiunga we haven't spent any time in Port Moresby, the ...
Snorkeling with Black Tip Sharks
Thoroughly, rested we set off bright and early this morning for another two dives in Kimbe Bay. This morning we have been joined by the only other guest at the Resort - a pediatrician from Birmingham, Reinout, stopping for a few days en route to a ...
Bubaque - Bijagos
Retour a l ile principale pour aller ensuite vers Bissau. Les barques que l ont utilise sont très stables, et si on a de la chances des dauphins viennent jouer autour de la barques. Ce qui égaient les 4-5 heures de ...
The Fjords of Tufi in PNG
A new country and new experiences. We flew from Darwin via Cairns and Port Moresby to Tufi with 3 different airlines. Getting to Cairns was no problem but there we weren't allowed on the plane unless we had a return ticket out of PNG. As we didn’t ...
Frontiere Guinee - Sierra Leone
Voici un peit poste frontiere : une petite cahute avec des douaniers tres gentils. Mais questions papiers, ils m ont fait n importe quoi. J ai du regulariser ma situation 3 jours plus tard a Freetown. Car cela faisait 3 jours que j etais dans le pays et ...
In memory of...
... something wonderful of themselves. It was a sad day for Peace Corps when they decided to send those two home. And Peace Corps Guinea will never be the same. Though I blame almost no one on PC Guinea staff, trust has been broken ...
Just another week
Sitting in the hut can be fun. Take now for example. Sarah and I are lounging around listening to Alanis Morisette. My new mattress is on the floor (the village carpenter hurt his hand so all work on my bed has ceased) and Sarah, sitting on it, keeps ...
Six Months
I have been in Guinea for 6 months! I can hardly believe it. It has been over 6 months since I've eaten Mexican food, or Wendy's or Penn Station or Chipotle or Panera. It has been 6 months since I've slept under a comforter, used a machine to ...
Getting started
I got stuck in Port Moresby for a couple days because as usual I arrived with nothing arranged and I also arrived on a Sunday morning when nothing is open so impossible to make arrangements. At the airport in Manila I met an Aussie expat who had been on ...
Disillusioned or just disappointed?
... have an ambassador and I don't know any staff. But it's been impossible to convince my community that I don't know every American in Guinea and I don't pull any strings at the embassy. I am very low on the totem poll of Americans in Guinea when it comes ...
Day of leisure
As we are flying to Rabaul in the morning today is an enforced day of relaxing! As diving is precluded and the snorkeling around Walindi is not great we spend most of the day arranging future flights, chatting with various locals and enjoying the resort. ...
On the bus with Rambo
Our plane into Port Moresby seems populated solely by returning locals and mining expats returning to their hardship posting. Like many of our previous flights, on this trip, tourists do not make up the bulk of this wide bodied Boeing 767 passenger ...
Fouta Djalon a fora
Ahh, de novo na estrada, de novo sem a certeza da distância que me sera possivel avançar, se continuarei a ter sorte ou se é desta que marcho a passo de cagado, que paisagem me aguarda no caminho, terei abrigo esta noite ? De novo um aventureiro. ...
Ville a architecture colonial
c est ma ville préférée en guinée Bissau. Une ville avec son architecture coloniale portugaise totalement a l abandon. Les locaux n ayant pas occupé les anciennes demeures des portugais. Il s ensuit une atmosphère très particulières. dans cette ...
Brikama to Sao Domingos
We are traveling from the Gambia with our African brother, Lucas Jatta, from Brikama to Sao Domingos, Guinea Bissau, on the first leg of a trip to visit his family in Cassalol, Guinea Bissau. ...