Florence's Freetown
Peninsula Road, past Lakka Beach Freetown, Sierra Leone
Other Freetown Hotels
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Country Lodge Freetown
30 reviews
Last review: Dec 06, 2011 -
Bintumani Hotel Freetown
23 reviews
Last review: Dec 16, 2011
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Family Kingdom Resort Freetown
24 reviews
Last review: Feb 09, 2012
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Kimbima Hotel Freetown
13 reviews
Last review: Jul 13, 2011
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Cape Sierra Hotel Freetown
8 reviews
Last review: Jul 04, 2011
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Mammy Yoko Hotel Freetown
2 reviews
Last review: Feb 29, 2008
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Hotel Mariam Freetown
2 reviews
Last review: Jul 14, 2011
Travel Blogs Nearby
Tokeh Beach- Mattress on the sand paradise
... As I felt it reach my nipples and my feet sink into the soft soft sand I had some doubts about the accuracy of this information. "Hey, you, white man!" a man standing next to a boat shouted cheerfully over to me. "Ya na wanna takee boat?" Well, yes that might be a good idea I considered. Sarah and I jumped in. So did two boys and the 'captain.' Initially they attempted to punt us across the 10m of water. Spinning about and grounding frequently the ...
Christmas Sierra Leone Style
... 20 seconds. The church was close to one of the beach bars. The priest asked us all to pray in silence, and as we all bowed our heads the lyrics of the song next door came in clearly through the window; ‘Sex machine, sex machine, sex machine.’ It was hard to focus. I also enjoyed the Collect. The money collectors stood at the front with their boxes; the congregation walked up and put money in the box accompanied by the drum, and then everyone had a ...
Freetown Dance Party
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The young people in Freetown have so little money – unemployment is high and despite the fact that a relatively high number of children complete their school education there just aren’t jobs for them to go into. Not having money for pubs or clubs, they make their own fun on the pavements. After dancing, the other great love here is English football. There are plenty of bars with big screens showing Premier League games downtown. Inside the bar you see a handful of ...
Freetown
... for European traders and African merchants. Beginning in 1668, tens of thousands of Africans were sent from there to become slaves in North America and the West Indies. Many of those sent to North America worked on rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia. Hence the etymology of the region’s nickname "Rice Coast". The British stopped the operation in 1808, one year after the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was ...
The Teary End
... trying to survive by scavenging at the rubbish tip. They are such amazingly good kids considering how tough their early years have been.
On one of the days we handed out new clothes, shoes and games to each of the kids who were very appreciative. Occasionally the kids would run inside to try on the clothes and then come out to show us to whoops of approval from the others. A few of us then took the kids down to a little cove for a paddle. Most of them could swim but a few of ...
