Saturday 11th November Part 1

Today we drove to Liberia. The first hour was fine, on tarmac roads, but after that the road was unmade and got worse as it went on. There had been heavy rain in the night which added to the problems, and it took us five hours from the end of the tarmac to the Liberian border, even though the distance was about the same.

We met Verda Tarpeh, Sightsavers Country Representative for Liberia, at the border, and crossed without too much difficulty (about two hours). Verda was called upon to shout at the customs people as there was some discrepancy between the chassis number of the Sierra Leone vehicle and that shown on the paperwork. Apparently shouting is the only way here, although I sense it wouldn’t have worked quite as well if I had done it….