Now safe but once notorious for war and "blood diamonds" in the 1990s, this English-speaking West African country has been recovering nicely and is a real tourism up-and-comer, with abundant wildlife/ecotourism, heritage sites, and among Africa's best beaches.
Cover photo: Leasmhar
viti One of West Africa´s smaller countries – a bit more wee than Scotland and a smidge bigger than Delaware plus West Virginia – the landscape of Sierra Leone (pop. 8.9 million) is a tropical mix of rainforests and savannahs. It was originally founded by the British in 1808 as a refuge – like next-door Liberia – for freed slaves (although its curious name dates back to 1462, when explorers sailing the coast from Portugal dubbed the mountains they spotted the “Serra Leoa,” which means Lion…
Read more…Very under the radar touristically speaking, this West African country has a lot to offer visitors, and here are the ten most prominent examples.
Read more…In the UK we usually associate Christmas with family, eating and drinking (often to excess!), giving presents, Father Christmas and a Christmas tree. But how is the tradition celebrated in West Africa, a region of the World where Christianity is at its freshest, where missionaries have only been preaching for about 150 years? West Africa is a culturally diverse region; comprised of 16 countries, where Islam and Christianity dominate thousands of different tribes speaking hundreds of different…
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