Hiking – Freetown style

Today, I met up with others in front of the embassy for the weekly hike. There used to be a much larger group meeting once or twice a week to hike or run around the city for exercise. In the group today, there were people different countries and organizations as well as Freetown locals.

Over the next 3 hours, we covered 8.6km and 116 floors according to my phone. I discovered that (1) I’m out of shape and (2) 86 degrees and a low 72% humidity feels really hot. I was definitely the weak link.

The route was down streets, up pathways between buildings, behind houses. We went down into a valley across a main road, through gardens and across a stream and then up and up past all the houses into wilder land. And then down and up (and down and up) to get back.

And here are some pictures of the local wildlife: