Tiwai Island lies between two rivers on the ... small islands where you can learn a lot about the history of Sierra Leone. Take Banana Islands, three islands that are best reached by boat from ...

In the south-east, the Gola rainforest and Tiwai Island ... for Sierra Leone in the freediving world championships. In 2016, he co-founded Bafa, an eco-resort on the northern tip of Banana Islands ...

At the nearby Tasso Ecotourism Project, an island in the Sierra Leone River Estuary ... the densely forested Banana Islands are a tropical idyll with some of West Africa’s best snorkeling ...

The Banana Islands ... Creole influences that characterizes Sierra Leonean cuisine. Sierra Leone is a biodiversity hotspot. Tiwai Island, a sanctuary for one of the world's highest concentrations ...

A headline-grabbing Ebola outbreak from 2014 to 2016 killed an additional 20,000 Sierra Leoneans and saw ... its important historic sites. On Banana Island, a villager led me to an unmarked ...