Gabon to Congo, Ndendé to Dolisie to Pointe-Noire

There will be no more photos in this space at the moment. I ran out of the 3GB space allowance on this site and I am not willing to upgrade. Running a blog on a mobile phone on WordPress is a joke. Anytime I try editing posts that have photos all formatting goes bust, all […]

Ebolowa, Cameroon to Bitam, Gabon

We rode in a moto for long, I asked him to take me where transport to Ambam leaves. Ambam is the last town before Cameroon ends, about 30kms away from both Gabon and Equatorial Guinea borders. Ebolowa suddenly seemed much larger than it looked. I was dropped on the roadside, no bus agency in sight, […]

Gembu, Nigeria to Banyo, Cameroon

My phone wasn’t fully charged in the morning. First I thought that my New Age cable is already broken, then I realized the power was off at night. At about 6:30am someone knocked at the door. Took me a while to realise that the person was knocking at my door, after all I was in […]

Porto Novo to Lagos

I planned to arrive at the border early in the morning. The sooner I got to Lagos the better. The plan of course didn’t work. I slept too long, the darkness in my room helped. I took a 200cfa moto to what I thought will be some gare du Nigéria but instead we rode for […]

Lomé to Ouidah

Distance from Lomé to the Togo-Benin border is about 50kms. Distance from border to Ouidah – the voodoo capital of universe – is the same. Both countries use the same currency – West African Franc, CFA. Benin is the last West African CFA country on my trip. Cotonou is the biggest city in Benin, its […]

Accra to Lomé: hello fever

How I didn’t want to leave Accra. It was comfortable & familiar. But then there is a schedule that runs on me. 1 May is holiday, I got two visas to handle in Cotonou and it would be good to be in Lagos over weekend, after all people work and Lagos isn’t a place where […]

Visa no. 12: Togo on arrival

Togo gives visa on arrival, 7 days, for 10,000cfa. The visa can be later extended in Lomé. I had to fill up a form and the main problem was telephone number in Togo that I had to provide. I copied two phone numbers of My Diana Guesthouse from The Rough Guide to West Africa and […]

Abidjan to Cape Coast

It took me long time to get off bed. I am not rushing to Ghana. I went out, had my coffees, a sandwich with some meat inside, tasty, and I also stocked up on gauze in a pharmacy that after the long holidays was finally open. I left maybe at 11am. There is little information […]

Logoutuo and the border to Man: richer lands

Day started with me caring for my newly reopened wound. Hydrogen peroxide, iodine then some sterile gauze that I had from home and two pieces of plaster I also had from home were supposed to hold it together till I am on the other side off the border. Just before I even managed to wash […]

Buchanan to the Logoutuo border: long journey for everyone

It turns out, as my moto driver taking me to the car park in Buchanan is telling me, that I won’t be able to get to Ganta on Liberian-Guinean border or even Gbarnga, which is on the way to Ganta directly from Buchanan. I will have to go back to Monrovia. Ugh. Sure enough, the […]