Visit Monrovia!

We wanted to take you on a little picture-journey and show you some impressions of this country - amazing, beautiful, poor, torn, fascinating, full of contrasts, interesting people and culture, heartbreaking wounds of a war, and so much more. I wish you could all see it "live", but I hope you get a glimpse by just seeing a few pictures how Liberia is....



Today I show you around Monrovia alittle bit - a city that cannot be captured in a million pictures...


Monrovia seen from the ruins of a former 4**** Hotel .... you are looking down on houses, than a big slum area.... and in the far back those of you with good eyes can detect "our" white ship!


Many houses are still quite destroyed from the war - and most people live in huts and slum housing for the money is missing to restore these houses or build new ones...


Want to get around in Monrovia? Well you can walk....


....or take a taxi! They just passed a law that not more than 6 people can be transported in a normal taxi.... before that they often cramped as many people into one taxi as possible...


But don´t be mischiefed by how good these taxis look from afar - looking closer will shock you in what desolate state most of these cars are .....


.... the most extreme we saw is this taxi... driving around with only 3 wheels!!! (want to have a ride?)

New: there are some busses now driving around in Monrovia! Not in a very good state either, but an alternative... you just never know when a bus would come and how long it takes to get you to a place, especially now in raining season...



Want to go shopping?

There are some shops you can visit - nothing compared to what you are used to...


The most common place to shop is the market - there you will find anything and nothing - all on wheelbarrels and wooden stands with the ground turning into a mudbath around you in raining season...


Oh, I guess I need a new bra... how convenient, there are some!


If you want to buy other clothes you either find it second hand on some wheelbarrel (donations from America sold there????) or you buy some material (your key word that you need to know is " I want a lappa!) and find a taylor that makes you your custom made dress - it takes you about 3-4 times to go back to that taylor until it finally fits in a way that you want to wear it....



Got hungry after all this shopping?

Why don´t you stop at the food section at the market and spoil yourself with some real delicacies... fresh snails!


Now you wonder how you take all your new goodies and possessions home to the ship? Well, try the african way...


Enjoy trying!

Next time we will leave Monrovia and discover the beauty of the country as soon as you leave this big loud smelly city!