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In one of the most exciting years of my life so far, between quitting my office job in June 1988 and starting university in August 1989, I travelled around, I studied Spanish in Spain, and I worked as a freelancer in computer projects in various countries in Africa (Togo, Guinea and Zimbabwe). After my stay in Guinea, I went with my friend (and computer student) Dilé to the South-East of the country, our destination was Mount Nimba.
We left by small Air Guinée plane for N'Zerékoré and from there continued mostly in taxis. This part of the country is plain jungle, or "le forêt" as the locals call it. After spending some days around Lola, we went up with an old jeep to reach Mount Nimba. We also visited a research centre where a sample of one of the rare species of frogs was kept, which was shown to us with pride by the director of the research centre.
While walking in the jungle, we covered our heads with one of the huge leaves to be found here. A few days later, we spent New Year's Eve near the border with Liberia and Ivory Coast. The next day, we were the first to arrive at a horrible scene, after a landrover had fallen down a gorge, overloaded with people as is always the case here. There are so many times in which you think something will happen because a car, bus or train is overloaded, and nothing happens. This was the first time I actually saw something happen. It was to be a sad 1 January...
