"Conflictive country" a Liberia Travel Page by jorgejuansanchez

I had not good time in Liberia, a conflictive country. Furthermore, as soon as I crossed the border from Tabou, In Ivory Coast, to Liberia, I got sick in Harper and had to wait two days lying in a straw carpet and vomiting all the time in a very poor village eating only some canned sardines, since there was nothing else to eat.
I specially choose that border to enter Liberia instead of the easier through Man and Danane.
In every military control the government soldiers first, and the revolutionary guerrilleros second a few kilometres further, tried to get money from me, being European, but, apart from the first two or three times that I gave some 1 dollars notes, and invited to some drinks to the officials, the rest of my journey to Monrovia I refused, without consequences.
After three days and nights of agonic travel in old jeeps in earth roads with enormous holes everywhere and without asphalt, and many times rowing because there are very few bridges in Liberia, I arrived to Monrovia and slept in a hostel managed by Lebanese people (Lebanese are business men in Africa).
Two days later I left to Sierra Leona overland.