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Country Lodge Freetown

HS 51 Hill Station Freetown, Sierra Leone

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Tokeh Beach- Mattress on the sand paradise

A travel blog entry by robspackman

7

... rate, the long stretch of perfect beach and mountains at No. 2 are clearly fine. A lagoon and tidal rivers meet the beach and are backed by dark green mountains; at low tide shimmering ridged sand bakes in the sun.
There is a collection of bungalows and a restaurant on the beach at No. 2 and a Boxing Day party was in full swing. Being quite used to the three songs that seem to repeatedly wow the locals most hours of the day in the party season (These ...

Christmas Sierra Leone Style

A travel blog entry by robspackman

7

... boys dragged piles of wood onto the beach and made a huge fire. Music from neighbouring bars competed to play Christmas tunes and Sierra Leone dance music. It was mad, and fun.

Later in the evening we went to return our bottles and passed a concrete building, from which we could hear 'Once in Royal David City' being sung Sierra Leone style, accompanied by drums. Midnight mass was just beginning. We wanted to slip in quietly, but the ...

Freetown Dance Party

A travel blog entry by robspackman

4

... Traffic jams run for miles out of the centre from early morning to late at night. But the vibrancy and the buzz of so much life and energy is hard to resist. Forget New York, this is the city that NEVER sleeps. Loud dance music starts up in the evening on the street outside our hotel, and it stays on, and loud, all night long. We were intrigued to know who was listening to it, and walking down Rawdon Street at night we got our answer. Five or six men, (completely sober ...

Freetown

A travel blog entry by chrlttzmmrmn

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Old Wharf Steps and Old Guard House: lead up from the Government Wharf, built in 1818. Many former slaves sent to Freetown by the British climbed

Bunce Island: Located approximately 20 miles upriver from Freetown in the Sierra Leone River, it was the largest British commercial fort/slave castle on the West African Coast. This is one of 40 of such forts built along the coast by the Europeans. It served as a ...

The Teary End

A travel blog entry by riceandbeans

5

... to take sand from our frontage rarely paying any attention to our protects. We ended up at 4 in the morning trying to negotiate with the sand miners not to take from outside our village but I don't think we were too convincing in our pjs and Steve in his tight red jocks. Regardless they temporarily moved on and we did a 'stake out' until high tide came up talking the sand miners out of taking the sand when we could. Steve has lodged formal complaints with the government but ...

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