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Photographs posted by listentoafrica on Feb 9th, 2010
Cycling through sweet Sierra Leone via Freetown, Shenge, Kenema, Bo and Tiwai Island. Photography by Bex Sumner and Huw Williams,…
Tags: africa , cycling , expeditions , freetown , gallery , overland , overlanding , photography , shenge , sierra leone , tiwai island , travel , west africa
Photographs posted by listentoafrica on Feb 6th, 2010
The journey through Guinea-Bissau and Guinea (Conakry). In this stretch, we travelled by bike, boat and, because of the unstable…
Tags: africa , cycling , expeditions , gallery , guinea , guinea-bissau , land rover , overland , photography , travel , west africa
audio , wildlife posted by listentoafrica on Jan 15th, 2010
This is the first of many recordings we made on the beautiful Tiwai Island, one of Sierra Leone’s largest inland…
Tags: africa , audio , calao a casque jaune , ceratogymna elata , field recordings , hornbills , nature , sierra leone , sounds , tiwai island , wattled , west africa , wildlife , yellow-casqued hornbill
audio , soundscapes posted by listentoafrica on Dec 15th, 2009
We reached the river that demarcates the Guinea-Bissau / Guinea border between Pitche and Foula Mouri early, while wisps of…
Tags: africa , audio , boats , border crossings , chain ferry , chains , ferry , guinea , guinea-bissau , sounds , soundscapes , travel , west africa
audio , soundscapes posted by listentoafrica on Dec 15th, 2009
In place of the sounds of the salt-water hippos we hoped to record on Guinea-Bissau’s Orango Island (but couldn’t afford…
Tags: africa , audio , bijagos , flip flops , guinea-bissau , orango , sandals , shoes , sounds , travel , walk , west africa
audio , people posted by listentoafrica on Dec 15th, 2009
Wandy Toure is a bird watcher, guide and general legend at Tendaba Camp in The Gambia. Here, he tells us…
Tags: africa , audio , bird watching , interviews , nature , sounds , tendaba , the gambia , wandy toure , west africa
audio , soundscapes posted by listentoafrica on Dec 14th, 2009
We recorded this shortly before recording Life in the mangroves – and standing just a few metres away, in the…
Tags: africa , audio , birds , field recordings , nature , sounds , soundscapes , tendaba , the gambia , west africa
audio , soundscapes posted by listentoafrica on Dec 14th, 2009
We were walking back from a bird watching tour with a local guide and another pair of touring cyclists near…
Tags: africa , audio , evening , hoop and stick , hoop rolling , sounds , soundscapes , tendaba , the gambia , toys , village , west africa
Photographs posted by listentoafrica on Nov 20th, 2009
Black and white portraits taken during boat journeys around the Bijagos islands off Guinea-Bissau – including Orango and Bubaque islands….
Tags: africa , archipelago , bijagos , black and white , boats , bubaque , galleries , guinea-bissau , islands , orango , people , photography , portraits , travel , west africa
audio , soundscapes posted by listentoafrica on Nov 13th, 2009
We recorded this at low tide on Orango island – a stunning and sparsely populated island of deserted beaches and…
Tags: africa , atlantic , audio , bijagos , guinea-bissau , islands , ocean , orango , sounds , soundscapes , water , waves