Travel and Adventure

In the previous two episodes from my trip to Ghana, I wrote about the history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade that spanned over four centuries and how the coast of present day Ghana (erstwhile Gold Coast) came to be the hub of this trade. We…

Lakka Beach is barely half an hour drive from the center of Freetown city and despite its proximity to the city, it is largely pristine and spotless clean. The sands are fine, light golden yellow and the beach itself has a wide sweeping curve. Charlotte…

My trip to Bureh-Town beach was unusual. Located in coast of the Freetown peninsula, Bureh-Town beach may be easily reached by road and that doesn’t take more than an hour and half from where I live. Nevertheless, when I went to Lakka beach over an extended weekend,…

Banana Islands is a spectacularly beautiful place off the Freetown peninsula, at its eastern end. Taking off from Lakka Beach on a small motorized country boat early one Saturday morning, it took me about two hours through the choppy deep blue waters of the North…

For a small country, Sierra Leone is amazing in its sheer physical diversity. Mountains, forests, rivers, scrub land, islands, lagoons, mangroves and long stretches of pristine sandy beaches – name it and it has it. In my view, the most spectacular feature of the country…

In a previous post, and the first in this series, I wrote about my arrival in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Those of you who have read that episode would probably agree that even the simple act of arriving in the…

The Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary is located amidst the forested hills of the Freetown peninsula, Sierra Leone. Over the years because of hunting, depletion of their natural habitat and trading, the chimpanzee population of Sierra Leone has dwindled to an alarmingly low level. These wild animals…

Tokeh Beach which is approximately forty five minutes drive from downtown Freetown, is probably amongst the most beautiful beachs in West Africa. Infrastructure in post-war Sierra Leone is still very much in the shambles and the beach resorts are rather basic, although it may cost…

For a small country, Sierra Leone is amazing in its sheer physical diversity. Mountains, forests, rivers, scrub land, islands, lagoons and long stretches of pristine sandy beaches – name it and it has it. In my view, the most spectacular feature of the country is…

After working in Asia for over two decades, I was moving on from the beautiful land-locked country of Laos to Sierra Leone in the west coast of Africa on a new and exciting assignment. I spent a month in between assignments in India and part…