In the morning I took a taxi (5USD) to the Duala Motor Park in Monrovia. There were crowds of people and vehicles waiting in the middle of the huge, dusty market. I found a shared taxi to the border – they charge 390 LRD per person and you are squized for 2,5 hours (6 pass in the little car) My backpack is large – they charged me 50 LRD extra. We started…
And then…
First checkpoint: police do not come to the car – they want you one by one in their hut. Passport and demand to pay. Not much… But there are MANY checkpoints till the border.
I was the only foreigner in the car. Do you know what I invented? I always started the disscusion informing them that I just visited a friend in the UN office in Monrovia and that I willl be back there in a few days. It works! Other passengers paid but I did not! Try this method too!
Same at the border… It was noon when I was walking through the border bridge. Welcome to Sierra Leone!
People are much nicer and helpful on this side… No transport… The only method was to rent a motorbike. Believe or not – we were driving 4,5 hours on the dusty, red and bumpy gravel road full of holes and water streems. O my poor backbone!
But this it true African adventure! And what you see around: beautiful mud-made village – like from the African fairy tales…
