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We expected it to take 10-14 days to paddle down the Niger River from Faranah to Kouroussa in Guinea. It took 15 long days. It was hard work and tough at times but great fun too and an amazing experience.
I will of course be writing a full update, but for now, here are some pictures [...]

Having spent nearly a week in the small but friendly town of Faranah in Guinea, we managed to get built a river-worthy wooden pirogue and buy suplies to keep us sustained for the two weeks it was expected to take to get to Kouroussa, the next place along the river…

The Welbodi Partnership
‘Welbodi’, meaning ‘health’ in Krio
In Sierra Leone, more than one in four children die before their fifth birthday, mainly from preventable illness or disease such as malaria, diarrhoea, pneumonia or malnutrition.
The Welbodi Partnership is working at the Ola During Children’s Hospital along with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation with the aim of [...]

Here’s a selection of photos from the last few weeks cycling through the Gambia, Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Guinea.
Unfortunately electricity and internet connection are in short supply in this part of the world and so I haven’t been able to add titles or descriptions. Hopefully I’ll get chance at a later date.

Soulful St. Louis
Arriving in St. Louis was the best introduction to Senegal I could have hoped for. We crossed the bridge from the mainland having weaved our way through the bustling market between the donkey-carts and equally slow-moving black and yellow taxi cabs congesting the roads.
Over on the island, the pace of life was noticeably [...]

I was looking through some of my recent photos and thought I’d put together a calendar of some of favorite images from the first few months of my trip.
So here’s the calendar for 2010 - I make a small amount from the sale of these calendars and will be donating this to the charity, Welbodi [...]

“Knowledge is like a Baobab tree, one person’s arms cannot encompass it.” - African proverb
On the ride from St. Louis towards The Gambia, we have passed many impressive baobab trees and one evening we even camped beneath one.  I thought I’d share with you some of the photos…
The Baobab tree, Adansonia digitata, can grow to [...]

Since my last update in Nouakchott, where I signed off at the point of disembarkation of the iron-ore train with decision to take a bush-taxi to Atar in the depths of the Mauritanian desert rather than cycle the 120km piste, so much has happened I don’t quite know where to begin or what to write [...]

A collection of photos from the last few days in St. Louis…
Went to a concert last night of El Hadj N’Diaye - his group play traditional Senegalese folk music. Staying another night now too since there’s more music happening on the beach this afternoon.
I’m loving St. Louis - it’s a great town to relax [...]

Made it into Nouadhibou in Mauritania, having crossed the Western Sahara in little more than six days. It was good, but time for a break…. There’s more desert where I’m headed!