Outamba-Kilimi, or simply OK Park, is the oldest national park in Sierra Leone and the most mysterious, which makes it my favourite one. The gallery below showcases pictures from two trips organised in early November 2022 (end of rains) and early March 2023 (mid of the dry season). Getting to OK in November, just after… Read More
Author: Kamila Janczyk
Loma Mountains: Climbing Bintumani
The Bintumani hike with its tranquil and dreamy scenery is a promise of remoteness and wilderness – the real beauty of Salone.
Turtle Islands: Paradise Found
Turtle Islands, an archipelago of eight little islands thrown across the Atlantic Ocean, are by far one of the most ‘cast-away’ destinations I have visited in Sierra Leone.
Lumley Beach, Western Freetown
Lumley Beach evokes ambivalent feelings – no one can deny its beauty, as much as no one can turn a blind eye to the amount of trash piling up on its golden sand.
Hill Station
Leafing through Freetown’s history, the city bore many names; one of them, an obscure white man’s grave, made the Europeans escape to the city’s forested hills from the most dreaded animal in Africa, a mosquito.
Sierra Leone: Blood Diamonds No more
No more blood diamonds, but Sierra Leone through a colourful lens of an outsider like me.