When we arrived in Guinea 10 days ago, Jean-Louis wanted to ride a few touristics roads and do some serious trekking and I wanted to get lost in some mountains villages, so we did separate and just got back together tonight.
Jean-Louis enjoyed his time doing a 2000ft up and down trecking of 15 miiles in 9 hours (go figure ???) and he also get stuck with his sidecar in the steep hills of Guinea.
As for me, it was total immersion. The day i left Jean-Louis, I landed in a remote village in the mountain and i stayed there for one full week with my new friend Diallo.
The whole village welcomed me greatly. Every year, the village see a car of tourist passing by, but they never stop, because they have no reason to stop. Last time a tourist stopped there, it was an American on a bicycle who slept there, needless to say, they had a lot to share with me and I have a new place in the world where i can stay as long as I want !!!
On top of the daily life of the village, there were the celebration of a new born baby, a funeral, a ceremony at the school, a reunion of delegate from all the surrounding villages at the village's Mosque...
I have a lot of photographic and video material that I will put together in the coming days. |
