Day 72: Wassadu

Today we are roughly planning the further stops in Guina, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Togo and Benin up to the border of Nigeria. You can now get the Nigerian visa in Conakry and not just in your home country (which means flying back). In order to arrange an appointment at the embassy, you need the travel plan and we now have to set a time window.

We didn't get much further in the evening:

For Ghana, we found out, the visa – also new – is available at one of the borders. So we don't necessarily have to do it in Conakry. e-visa doesn't work because you can't select a European country as your home country.

Ivory Coast does not allow appointments to be made online. We pay, but don't get any further, email the embassy and don't expect any response. So wait for Conakry.

Nigeria – somehow you can't find a way around. We write to the embassy, but we don't expect a response here either. But we won't get anywhere without making an appointment. It wasn't until late in the evening that Wolle found the right website – we'll take another look at it tomorrow morning, but we definitely need a reference address and a letter of invitation.

We book a hotel in Conakry for 6 nights from December 17th to 23rd. – hopefully the investment is worth it and we have a nice time there.

A few more thoughts about the last few days:

We see many round hut villages and the first cyclists in this part of Senegal.

The route from Tambacounda south is one of the main routes to Mali. We see an incredible number of tank trucks – Shell in particular is doing well.

In southern Senegal we actually didn't have any checkpoints anymore – if there were any, we were waved through.

The gazelles and antelopes in the park are much more well-fed than the animals we saw in Namibia. And we were constantly surrounded by the intense smell of African mint in the park.

Water here comes primarily from the Gambia, drinking water comes from bottles.

And the fuel tank is filled up not before it flows over!