Sierra Leone Transportation

Give several days to get to and from and bring more triple what lonely planet says in the W. Africa guide. It is time consuming to get there, the poda-podas only leave when they are full, as is the way in all of W. Africa. It took me over 2 days to get there, and it is very difficult to get back because it is a small town you are trying to leave from, arrange for transportation before hand, or make it an adventure and find your own way back. I rode a motorcycle with a 17 kilo backpack on for 2.5 hours.

I guess since I have been in Freetown ´98 it has changed a lot. I have been there as the Rebells started to enter the capitol. We just escaped with the last public flight to Conakry. I was never afraid like that in a flight, it was an old ukrain aeroplain.