A country · 20 places · 3 regions
Sierra Leone, all of it.
20 curated places across 3 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.
Sierra Leone reads below in 3 chapters — Western Area, Southern Province and Eastern Province — in any order you like.
Chapter I · Western Area · 12 places
Western Area
A trio of forested islands off the Freetown Peninsula, reached by boat from Kent village. Snorkelling over reefs and shipwrecks, rusting slave-trade relics and simple eco-lodges make them a favourite off-grid weekend escape.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter II · Southern Province · 2 places
Southern Province
This river island in the Moa River is one of the most primate-rich habitats in West Africa. Its rainforest shelters rare pygmy hippos and eleven species of monkey.
✦ November to April · $
Chapter III · Eastern Province · 1 place
Eastern Province
A lowland rainforest along the Liberian border forming Sierra Leone's largest tract of Upper Guinean forest, now protected as a national park. Pygmy hippos, forest elephants and rare birds live within its dense canopy.
Regions of Sierra Leone
Every place in Sierra Leone
