Heading north from Freetown towards the Guinea border
Zsolt Turza – Serbian bike enthusiast
Northern Sierra Leone
They stay one side of the road… we stay on the other
Sierra Leone – Guinea border
Truck bouncing off side of bridge
River camp, NE Guinea
Visitors to our camp
Forest fire raging at night, a few kilometres away
River side camp site, near Kissidougou
Near Kissidougou
Guinea road – heading for Cote d’Ivoire border
Encouraging new growth or random/excessive use of fire? NE Guinea
Nzerecore, NE Guinea
Looking for cash machines
Another (hot) street – Nzerecore, Guinea
Tarmac again after 100km of dirt
Eastwards towards Cote d’Ivoire
Last night in Guinea… my ample accommodation is on the left!
Near!
In to Cote d’Ivoire; the surreal Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Yamoussoukro
Yamoussoukro street, Cote d’Ivoire
Outside the shady DST department in Abidjan. JC with Danane police sergeant who brought our confiscated passports from border region to Abidjan… (long story!)
Hotel #1 – Hotel Cote de Repos, Abidjan
A bit of TLC for my KTM; Zone 4, Abidjan
Life in Abidjan
Hotel #2 outside Abidjan… although looks can be deceptive!
Wafou Hotel, Abidjan – we didn’t stay here, sadly!
Our actual hotel, outside Abidjan. Minus palm trees, there’s a touch of the Stalag about it, but – hey – it’s cheap!
Staff at hotel #2, the Sikewa Hotel.
A piece of France in Cote d’Ivoire
Into Ghana from Cote d’Ivoire – only US$50 for a 48 hour transit visa – but someone has forgotten to finish the road
JC on Aprilia Caponord finds a strip of road almost complete!
The Watapa Hotel, Esiama, Ghana. Generally unremarkable but Castle Milk Stout was good after 80km of grim roads.
Ghana
Fishing festival and village, Ghana
Slaving fort, Ghana
Into Accra… another hotel; no running water but there’s a VIP Garden!
Accra beach, pirogue
Independence Arch, Accra
Steep shelving beach – east of Lomé… dodge the floating plastic bags but joyous temperature
Togo n’est pas une poubelle” – in fact, replace the word ‘Togo’ with ‘West Africa’
The eagle eyed will notice an Arsenal sticker up front – important amongst the sea of Chelsea and Manchester United shirts out here… otherwise Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ghana flags have been affixed.
Chez Alice, Lomé, Togo
Air filters old and new
Chez Alice resident
The Supreme Council? Lome, Togo
Another Chez Alice resident
Essential Togo
Still in Togo, looking east, up the coast, into Benin
End of the day, Benin, just inside the border from Togo
