http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Guinea-Bissau/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Guinea Bissau en-us Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:30:16 BST Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:30:16 BST Irsquod lost my Rastafarian wristband one night at Gatwick Airport and it had gone My son Sam had tied it in place the previous day Irsquod told him that it would stay on until I returned and he could untie it for me. I looked at my wristwatch on my left arm at least that was still there and it told me I had ten minutes before boarding began. The watch was a present from my father som http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Guinea-Bissau/North/Bissau/blog-217759.html Oioioioioi hvor skal jeg begynne denne gangen. Jeg faar bare hive meg uti det og haape paa det beste. Turen fra Bubaque tilbake til Bissau var alt annet enn kjedelig. Klokka kvart paa seks soendag morgen sto vi i bekmoerket paa kaia i Bubaque uten noen slags form for lys og ropte desperat paa Emma vaar nye svenske venninne. En hyggelig mann med lommelykt var snill og hjalp oss i feil retning http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Guinea-Bissau/North/Bissau/blog-201881.html Hei alle sammen naa har the norwegian traveling circus kommet seg ut paa Bubaque en idyllisk og tropisk liten oey bare noen timers baattur utenfor hovedstaden Bissau i landet vi naa er i GuineaBissau. Allerede paa grensa skjoente vi at dette var et land vi ville komme til aa stortrives i. Vi ble hilst velkommen av en skokk grensevakter og her snakker vi skikkelige sleggedamer i uniform som ik http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Guinea-Bissau/blog-200201.html On the map Senegal and Gambia look like the profile of an open mouth where the former are the jaws while the latter represents the tongue. Made exception for the short coastal strip the Gambia is totally wrapped in Senegal hence whichever direction one wants to leave the country south in my case he have to necessarily enter into the territory of its francophone neighbour. I have understood b http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Guinea-Bissau/North/Bissau/blog-181292.html Well I haven't written for a long time mostly because Alana who is travelling with me has been writing so I didn't feel the need to but there is one island I went to that she didn't so I will describe it. It was Roxa in Portuguese but Canhaba in Bijago. I went with an English banjo researcher we met at Bubaque the most developed of all the islands. Bubaque seems to have seen more prosperous da http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Guinea-Bissau/blog-81299.html We have just returned after spending a week on the decently remote Bijagos the archipelago islands off the coast of Guinea Bissau. We were told by one of our hotels that we were the first Americans they'd seen since 1998. Much traditional village culture still exists there as it has for hundreds of years...except with a few additions like plastic buckets and oversized American Tshirts under t http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Guinea-Bissau/blog-81284.html So we left Senegal last Thursday morning right after I posted my last entry. I posted it that morning though i had actually written it the day before but the internet connection was down due to a storm. You can barely see through the rain sometimes during the storms it is so heavy and that particular storm had a lot of lightening strikes and made me a bit more nervous than some of the others http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Guinea-Bissau/blog-78973.html We were lucky. Four days after we crossed the border at Sao Domingo into GuineaBissau GB the border closed.The Senegalese army had chased the Jola separatist guerilla into the city. The guerilla using mines as warfare blew up a minibus with people coming from Varela beach before they were capturedexecuted by the military. This is a region of tension and sporadic turmoil one must not forg http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Guinea-Bissau/East/Bafata/blog-48757.html