Best Liberian + Sierra Leonean Heritage Tour: Monrovia, Freetown, Banana Islands, Bunce Island, Loma Mountains and the West African Deep Coast
Browse more guides: Liberia travel | Africa destinations Best Liberian and Sierra Leonean Heritage Tour: Monrovia (1822), Freetown (1787), Banana Islands, Bunce Island (1670 British factory), Loma Mountains (Mount Bintumani 1,945 m) and Sapo NP (Liberia, 1,808 km², gazetted 1983, expanded 2003) - Nimba Mountains UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 1981, in-danger list 1992) TL;DR I planned my first trip into Liberia and Sierra Leone the same way I plan any frontier route, with a paper map, a printout of the most recent travel advisory and a working phone number for the embassy duty officer. That preparation is not optional here. These are two of West Africa's smallest coastal republics, both still doing real work to rebuild after long civil wars and after the 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak that killed about 11,310 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone according to the WHO situation reports. The good news, and the reason I am writing this, is that the coastlines are ext...