http://www.odyssei.com Guinea, - lately on the site en-us Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:59:03 +0100 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:59:03 +0100 pet@odyssei.com (Piotr Jaworski) pjm@odyssei.com (Pawel Jaworski) http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24657.html Required travel documents for Guinea: passport [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24657.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24281.html Electric power: 220V / 50 Hz [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24281.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24022.html Area code to Guinea: +224 [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24022.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11285.html Limited acceptance. Check with your credit or debit card company for details of merchant acceptability and other services which may be available. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11285.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11284.html Hotels will accept some foreign currencies in payment. Inter-bank fund transfers are frequently difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11284.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11283.html Guinea Franc (FG) = 100 centimes. Notes are in denominations of FG5000, 1000 and 500. Coins are in denominations of FG25, 10, 5 and 1 [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11283.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11282.html A permit (applied for in advance) has to be obtained from the Ministčre de l’Intérieur et de la Sécurité when photographing government buildings, military and transportation facilities or public works. It is inadvisable to photograph buildings at pr [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11282.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11281.html Restaurants, except in the capital where Western-style food is available, generally serve local dishes including jollof rice, stuffed chicken with groundnuts and fish dishes. These are usually served with rice and may be spicy. Staples are cassava, yams a [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11281.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11280.html Tropical or washable cottons throughout the year. A light raincoat or umbrella is needed during the rainy season. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11280.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11279.html The climate is tropical and humid with a wet and a dry season. Guinea is one of the wettest countries in West Africa. The wet season lasts from May to October; dry season lasts from November to May. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11279.html