Traveling to Sierra Leone

Sunday, January 18, 2004 (AdoptionNews) - We are getting close to being able to go bring Sennah and Mayeteh home! Time to start getting serious about finding the least expensive way to get there and back, and where to stay for several days in Freetown and Dakar:

• The US Embassy in Freetown has an informative site, especially their Airlines Schedule.
• The Embassy in Dakar's website is much more typical, and much less helpful.
  
• Ghana Airways looks promising, with flights 6 days a week, but they all connect back to Accra, Ghana, apparently. Kind of like all flights going to Atlanta, or something.
• West Coast Airlines looks like a possibility, but can't find any website.
• No website for Gambia International, either.

If we can get to Europe with some donated frequent flier miles, there are a couple other possibilities:

• Sierra National Airlines flies from London on M & F, and from Amsterdam on Wednesday.
• SN Brussels flies in from Brussels on M & Th.

The problem is that we have to fly to Dakar, as that is the closest US Embassy that can help us with the children. So, we either roundtrip out of Freetown, and get a separate flight to Dakar, or the opposite.

• Air France
• Air Senegal
• Many more, but not very web-searchable. Perhaps it's time to contact a travel agent!

Other than getting there, what to bring, and how to not get sick?

• CDC Health Information for Travelers to West Africa
• Senegal and Sierra Leone require Yellow Fever vaccinations (and cholera?)
  
• Sierra Leone requires a visa
  

3 Comments

• Tamra: Just wondering how things are going for you. Are the girls home yet? (commented on 3/5/2004 2:54:31 PM)
• Carrie: Hey there!! How is it going? (commented on 3/10/2004 1:18:44 AM)
• Erin: I'm continuing to pray for all of you and your twin girls and a wonderful homecoming in the not too distant future! We're still waiting to be matched up with our daughter. Although our adoption route is not as time-consuming as yours, it's still frustrating to go through the hurry-up-and-wait mode of every step of the adoption process. I was wondering whether you'd gotten my earlier email or if it got "trashed" as the strange ramblings of someone you didn't even know. Trust that God will continue to bless you and yours in your beautiful new home and the addition of your girls. (commented on 3/17/2004 2:45:34 PM)

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