A different Salone [Saturday-Monday, July 7-9]

We drove past men dancing in the streets. Some held plants over their heads, the green emphasizing their support for the SL People's Party. Others carried speakers. We drove past podas stacked high with cassava on its way to the Freetown markets. We drove past electrical transmission towers, but they had no power lines attached. We drove past NGO offices and cell phone towers. We drove past burned out buildings next to brand new huts.



Harry took Amanda, Nick and myself on a tour of central/northern Sierra Leone this weekend. We traveled to Makeni on Saturday to visit his step-mother and then even further north on Sunday to Kabala, where we stayed with his mother before returning to Freetown on Monday. As I simply don't have time to write about everything that happened, I've posted a few pictures - complete with captions - from the trip over at my Picasa site:

Makeni and Kabala