Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau borders Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south-east and the capital city is Bissau.
The Bissagos Islands, also spelled Bijagós are a group of about 88 islands and islets located in the Atlantic Ocean. There is a high diversity of ecosystems: mangroves with intertidal zones, palm forests, dry and semi-dry forests, secondary and degraded forests, coastal savanna, sand banks and aquatic zones. The archipelago was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1996. The Bijagos are still a traditional people and most of them practice their animist faith and speak their ethnic language, in addition to the Portuguese-African creole spoken by the majority of the citizens of Guinea-Bissau. Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands at night.
BEST TIME to VISIT GUINEA-BISSAU
BEST TIME to TRAVEL to BISSAU
from November to February
Sea Turtles : November - December
Bissagos Islands - Carache island - These women go to the beach (low tide) to collect shells
Bissagos Islands - Carache island - These women go to the beach (low tide) to collect shells
Bissagos Islands - Carache island - This woman go to the beach (low tide) to collect shells
Bissagos Islands - Carache island - This woman go to the beach (low tide) to collect shells
Bissagos Islands - Carache island - This woman go to the beach (low tide) to collect shells-
Bissagos Islands - Carache island - This woman go to the beach (low tide) to collect shells
Bissagos Islands - woman with a colorful dress
Bissagos Islands - kids with a dog
Bissagos Islands - children
Bissagos Islands - boys
Bissagos Islands - These young people separate the grain of rice from its husk using these pestles
Bissagos Islands - Boy
Bissagos Islands - boys
Bissagos Islands - girl
Bissagos Islands - girl
Bissagos Islands - very young girl bringing material to build an house
Bissagos Islands - young girl bringing material to build an house
Bissagos Islands - boy
Bissagos Islands - woman and baby
Bissagos Islands - this woman is cooking a meal
Bissagos Islands - woman
Bissagos Islands - small crabs on the beach
Bissagos Islands - mother and baby
Bissagos Islands - white rice produced on the island during rain season
Bissagos Islands - mother and child
Bissagos Islands - children
Bissagos Islands - These young people separate the grain of rice from its husk using these pestles
Bissagos Islands - young girl
Bissagos Islands - young girl and her sister
Bissagos Islands - young girl
Bissagos Islands - girl
Bissagos Islands - woman
Bissagos Islands - boys playing
Bissagos Islands - boy
Bissagos Islands - woman
Bissagos Islands - women are working hard
Bissagos Islands - girl
Bissagos Islands - children
Bissagos islands - girl and baby
Bissagos Islands - girl
boy with a neckless
girl
boy
this woman collects seashells at low tide
Bissagos Islands - Man
boy
children and mother
boy
boy
this young boy has ritual scarifications on his chest
Women ready to harvest the shells which will be placed on the tray they carry on their heads
boys
Woman ready to harvest the shells which will be placed on the tray they carry on their heads
children
boy
children
Anguruma island - birds
bougainvillea flowers
Orangezinho island - mangrove
house in a village
Forest
house in a village
boys
village
children
young woman and kids
village with typical huts
Harvesting shellfish at low tide by women
large tree
walking in a deep forest
termite mound
village with typical huts
harvest of rice
village with typical huts
mother and child
children
Hand washing for clothes
forest
bougainvillea flowers in a lodge
landscape
Harvesting shellfish at low tide by women
house in a village
typical house
street view
street view
market
street view
street view
house
Elegant house
building
building
building
house
young men
typical village with a well
house
typical village
typical village
typical hut in a village
Bijagos Islands - woman selling yam
Bijagos Islands - children
Bijagos Islands - children
Bijagos Islands - children
woman
Bijagos Islands - this building contains large containers of rice harvested during the rainy season and used throughout the year
Bijagos Islands - this building contains large containers of rice harvested during the rainy season and used throughout the year
Bijagos Islands - Building a rice container
Bijagos Islands - The palm tree is very valuable and gives fruits to make palm oil and also palm wine obtained from the sap collected in the plastic bottles.
Bijagos Islands - Trail on Caravela island - no cars as people are used to walk
Bijagos Islands - weaving a large basket
Bijagos Islands - trail
Bijagos Islands - kitchen outside of the hut
local pick-up
Bijagos Islands - brick factory
Bijagos Islands - kitchen outside of the hut
Bijagos Islands - typical hut in a village
Bijagos Islands - typical huts in a village
Bijagos Islands - typical hut in a village
Bijagos Islands - typical hut in a village
Bijagos Islands - Forest
Bijagos Islands - Forest
Bijagos Islands - Forest
Bijagos Islands - Forest
Bijagos Islands - Boats are used between islands
Bijagos Islands - crows
Bijagos Islands - pelican
Bijagos Islands - beach at low tide
Bijagos Islands - Family
Bijagos Islands - Family
Bijagos Islands - young girl
Bijagos Islands - construction of a house by the whole family, even the children who carry the materials
view of the city
craft market
overloaded truck
road flooded
resort - swimming pool
vultures in the city
Presidential palace
typical hut in a village
Fishermen
piglets, as well as other domestic animals roam freely in the villages
village with typical huts
sandy beach
sandy beach
egrets and herons
pelicans
typical hut in a village
house in a village
typical village
sunset
boats are used between islands
beach and boats
mangrove
house in a village
large house
unpaved road
Bissau city - market
house
house and van
typical houses
Bissau city - market
swallow bird
colorful Weaver bird
Bissagos islands - bee eater bird
Bissagos islands - Goliath heron is the biggest heron
Bissagos islands - colorful Abyssinian Roller
Bissagos islands - the beautiful fish eagle
Bissagos islands - Palm vulture eat palm fruits and looked like the fish eagle
Bissagos islands - flamingos
swallow bird
Bissagos islands - bird
Bissagos islands - the elegant flamingo
Bissagos islands - pretty bird
Bissagos islands - baby turtle running to the water
Bissagos islands - young girl
Bissagos islands - Ceiba tree is very large - also called "fromager" locally
Bissagos islands - termites built their termite mound (in fact a fine layer) on the trunk of a tree
Bissagos islands - this man is climbing to harvest the palm fruits
Bissagos islands - Baobab
wood carver making a statue
shop
Bissau city - woman
kids playing
Bissau city - selling fruits
street view - shop
street view - shop
Bissau city - selling goods
Bissagos islands - children
Bissagos islands - hen and chicks
Bissagos islands - woman
Bissagos islands - egret
Bissagos islands - young boy
Bissagos islands - women
Bissagos islands - girl
Bissagos islands - young boys
Bissagos islands - man escalating a palm tree to harvest the palm fruits to make oil
Bissagos islands - young boy
Bissagos islands - young boy
Bissagos islands - young girl
Bissagos islands - boy
Bissagos islands - large Ceiba tree called "fromager" locally
Bissagos islands - young boy
Bissagos islands - Family preparing the meal
Bissagos islands - women and kids
Bissagos islands - young girl and brothers
Bissagos islands - mother and child
Craft market
Craft market - Murals
Craft Market
The eggs, laid the previous year, hatch and the birds fly over the nests in search of an easy meal. Our guide collected the sea turtles to protect them and give them more chances of survival. They are released near the ocean.
The eggs, laid the previous year, hatch and the birds fly over the nests in search of an easy meal. Our guide collected the sea turtles to protect them and give them more chances of survival. They are released near the ocean.
The eggs, laid the previous year, hatch and the birds fly over the nests in search of an easy meal. Our guide collected the sea turtles to protect them and give them more chances of survival. They are released near the ocean.
baby sea turtle running to the ocean
The eggs, laid the previous year, hatch and the birds fly over the nests in search of an easy meal. Our guide collected the sea turtles to protect them and give them more chances of survival. They are released near the ocean.
baby sea turtle running to the ocean
View of the beach early Morning - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand.
View of the beach with day light - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand. Sea turtles arrived exactly where they were born. So some arrived directly on a beach and it's more easy. But some have to cross the rocks, more easy at high tide and exhausting at low tide.
View of the beach early Morning - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand.
View of the beach with day light - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand.
View of the beach with day light - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand. Sea turtles arrived exactly where they were born. So some arrived directly on a beach and it's more easy. But some have to cross the rocks, more easy at high tide and exhausting at low tide.
View of the beach with day light - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand.
View of the beach with day light - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand.
View of the beach with day light - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand.
View of the beach with day light - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand.
View of the beach with day light - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand.
View of the beach with day light - Sea turtles lay their eggs on some Bijagos islands. They arrive at high tide and reach the highest point of the beaches to dig the nest, leaving large traces on the sand.
Morning on the beach - this turtle was delayed and did not reach the ocean after laying her eggs. This one tried to cross the mangrove but found herself stuck by the roots. After a while, she backs off and chooses another path to the ocean.
Morning on the beach - this turtle was delayed and did not reach the ocean after laying her eggs. This one tried to cross the mangrove but found herself stuck by the roots. After a while, she backs off and chooses another path to the ocean.
Morning on the beach - this turtle was delayed and did not reach the ocean after laying her eggs. This one tried to cross the mangrove but found herself stuck by the roots. After a while, she backs off and chooses another path to the ocean.
Morning on the beach - this turtle was delayed and did not reach the ocean after laying her eggs. This one tried to cross the mangrove but found herself stuck by the roots. After a while, she backs off and chooses another path to the ocean.
The sea turtle has difficulty moving on land and it is exhausted after having reached the place of laying - the digging of the nest and the return to the ocean - It can move for a few minutes and stop to breathe. She raises her head when she leaves again and again.
Morning on the beach - this turtle was delayed and did not reach the ocean after laying her eggs. This one tried to cross the mangrove but found herself stuck by the roots. After a while, she backs off and chooses another path to the ocean.
resting a while
The sea turtle has difficulty moving on land and it is exhausted after having reached the place of laying - the digging of the nest and the return to the ocean - It can move for a few minutes and stop to breathe. She raises her head when she leaves again and again.
The sea turtle is on her way to the ocean
Farewell and safe travel - Hope you will come back next year