There are two buses per day between two largest cities of Sierra Leone. They depart from Bo at midnight and 4 am.
I did not want to travel during the night – you miss the chance to enjoy the scenery, it is unsafe and tiring…
Thanks God there are also little, carampy and junk minibuses called poda-poda departing in the morning. What is the time of departure? It depends how fast they will fill-up. I was waiting only slightly more then an hour – and this was very good result – as they said. The fare is 20000 leone per passenger plus 2000 per backpack. First hour were driving on the paved road and I became very optimistic. But then asphalt dissapear – it was again well-known red, gravel road with clouds of dust. Palms along the road are red, so are the houses in the villages…
We reached Freetown at 3 pm. The capital has so much trafic congestions that poda-poda do not enter the centre. I was walking about an hour to get to the Place Guesthouse – sweaty way, but also a good exercise after hours spent in the crampy poda-poda!
