Winter Blue represents air travel; Bissau via Dakar! From there we travelled through Senegal and a mini part of Gambia to Guinea Bissau. We had to travel through Senegal entirely by private transport because there was a general transport strike the first since independence in , I understand. This caused the costs to increase somewhat. In Guinea Bissau we stayed in and around the capital Bissau because Annemarie had not received her e-visa for Guinea Conakry and we had to sort this out at the embassy there, which fortunately worked out.
This meant we had to skip a visit to Varela on the coast and a visit to the island of Bubaque. From Bissau to Conakry we could not do it by road because an e-visa for Guinea would only be valid upon arrival at the airport.
From Bissau to Conakry is only a 1 hour flight but there is no direct flight anymore. So we flew back to Dakar and from there we flew back to Conakry! In Conakry we continued our second part of the journey. Through the interior of Guinea to Liberia.
It is often difficult to get into nature as a backpacker. You travel by public transport from city to city. In different parts of the world it is often possible to organize an individual excursion at an affordable price in nature but not in this part of the world;. There is simply no tourism. You have to figure everything out yourself and if you do arrange something with a private car it often costs quite a lot of money in comparison, certainly in comparison with Asia or South America!
We called the telephone number that was fortunately operational and the forest ranger organised a taxi for us from our hotel nearby to their place. We arranged another excursion to the Kpatawee waterfalls in Liberia ourselves by contacting the Facebook page of the lodge there.
