Labe, Conakry, Free town

After leaving Labe and the wonderful cooking of Flavio and family at The hotel TaTa in Labe, this is a recomendation folks, we headed off to Conakry to await the arrival of desperately needed parts for the bikes,
Conakry was not as expected, its a capital city that dosn,t work, I mean we waited 3hrs for a ATM and it then ran out of cash, it appears that there is only 1 ATM in the city, great heyho.
We decided to limp the bikes to Freetown Sierra Leone, it aint that far about 300km,
Well bleedin well, 14hrs later we got into town, the road was crap the borders took forever to clear, we had a shit day, we got lost on the way into freetown and I finally paid a bike taxi to guide us to a hotel.
Well as it turns out the hotel has, ahem, other activities, we thought it was a bit busy at midnight but any port in a storm and we were in the shit so to speak.
This has in a way turned to our advantage, the staff are really friendly and security is tight,
we have a little appartment at the rear of the place, away from the activities and worst moaning and groaning
The gardner cleans up the condom packets and has cleaned our bikes inbetween shifts, top bloke.
We are awaiting new chains and sprockets for both bikes and new fork oil seals for Bruces bike, hers is unusable as no oil in the forks means bouncy bouncy which= bloody dangerous

I,d jus like to mention a few people who we have met on the ride down who have been of great help to us, Some of whom are still to email me, you know who you are
Quaddy Mark in Gambia, let me use his garden to service the bikes, donated a 17m ring spanner to my tool kit and also gave us a bed for 2 nights, thanks mate.
Internet Malc and his son, also Gambia, who are the ones who helped me put the piccies on and gave me internet lessons
Flavio and family in Labe,
Bruce had damaged her front wheel badly and Flavio took us to the bush docter who straightened it with a sledgehammer an a piece of wood, a good repair aswell
His, Flavios wife also cooked the best shin of beef I have tasted for years, cheers mate
The hotel we are in now Mothers residence, and Bakharr the nephew of the owner
Thanks als to everyone who I have not mentioned who have assisted us
And finally Mr pig in MCR FOR SORTING THE PARTS OUT

Chute de Saala

We took a ride out to find these the other day, 45km of real backwoods trail with no signs at all,
You have to wait for someone at every cross in the trail and ask the way, well it was sure worth it these falls are spectacular, I have the photo,s but my camera is broke,I have to buy a new one somewhere but I aint a clue where

The next step and the last ones too

We are currently in Guinea Conakry at a place called Labe, we came over the mountains from Koundara a mere 260km of the worst trail I have ever ridden, it took us 11 hrs or so a real shitter of a day and it pissed it down for the last 30km of it turning the trail into a mud slick.
It has been an interesting few weeks, on our way to Guinea Bissau we asked a guy for directions, he was also on a Yamaha, not only did he say follow me but he took us to his house and fed us.

He also showed me his gun collection, thanks Ruis for yours and Mirielles hospitality.