My name is Kenneth Gbengba from Fact Finding Tours of Sierra Leone. I have been a bird guide for 18 years, guiding birding tours all over West Africa. I am recognised as Sierra Leone’s top birdwatcher and I run the only indigenous eco tourism handling agency in the name of Fact Finding Tours. My office [...]

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We set off for our drive home at midday. We returned back in the boat to the jeep and then once loaded up we drove to Bo. We had a short stop at the Sewa River to take pictures of the sand miners. Another wide, clean free flowing river of Sierra Leone.  Bo is a pretty city, [...]

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This morning was to be our last on Tiwai Island. After a good breakfast of omelette and bread, tea and coffee Kenneth and H set off on a final morning trek through the rain forest with the local guide. Kojo and I stayed back at base to tidy and pack up and to settle our bills.
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We had arranged to go on an early evening canoe ride up the River Moa. We set off for a 10 minnute track down to one of the small landing areas on the island. Even that short walk had the group stopping at various intervals to stand and watch quietly as Kenneth pointed out an [...]

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Last weekend james and I decided that we had to take a field trip to try and locate the elusive Amorphophallus Elliotii. Our main clue was the last recorded photograph in 1892, whch detailed the place the plant had been found as Walia. see the original blog of 15th Novemeber for all the information that we had [...]

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Cricket has been played at Freetown Oval for over fifty years. Sierre Leone’s national team over the last few years has been trying to regain its early glory years of the sixties and seventies when it was leading nation in West African cricket . The civil war of the 1990’s caused cricket to fall into decline but recently it has started [...]

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The tents in the small campsite on Tiwai are positively luxurious, all previously set up and each with a matress and pillow. In the middle of the jungle with all the interesting sounds around, in totally pure fresh air and following a few Star beers in the eating area of the campsite it was very [...]

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We set off from base at 7.00 am for our journey to Tiwai. We had to go up through Bo and then to Portoru where we would park up and take a short boat ride over to the Island. We went up and over Imatt, via the pretty little Creole villages of Regent and Bathurst to [...]

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H and Kenneth continued on their walk down from the dam through the rain forrest and we followed in the jeep at 30 - 40 minute intervals to keep them supplied with refreshments if they required them.
We had a break for lunch just after midday at Number Two river. This beautiful beach has white, white [...]

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H had arrived from Guinea Conakry late on Saturday evening.  We had planned a full six day itinery as requested which he had already received by e mail. We sat and had a Star beer with him and gave him more detail about the plans for the following day.We were to start at 5.30 am from our compound and Kenneth was meeting us [...]

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