Western Sierra Leone Travel Guide

If you go to Freetown, the airport is a long drive from the city - they're physically close but on either side of the mouth of a deep & broad bay, so it can take 4hrs on poor roads to get there or back. There's a helicopter shuttle service into the city that takes only 15mins or so and runs several times an hour. It's fairly inexpensive, a little 'exciting' (ex-Russian military choppers!) and well worth the few dollars for the time saved, and a good story for dinner with friends!

The Capital of Sierra Leone. Has beautiful beaches and a large river Siwa running thru it.
English and Pigeon English  are spoken by almost all locals, among other local languages Timni, and Minde. Fruits, espacially Mangos, Pineapple, and banana (the small version) as well as peanuts are very tasty in this country. Enjoy!

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.