The White Beach at the end of the Red Road

Tokeh beach is one of the longest beaches along the peninsula. It's also a bit of a trek to get there.

We headed off early one wet morning in the hope that the sun might come out by the time we arrived. The peninsula road has been under construction since before I first arrived in Sierra Leone back in 2008. The road as far as number 2 beach (almost) is now a smooth dual carriageway but, once it ends, travelling is a whole other experience! Because it was an extra wet morning the craters in the road had become lakes and the lack of visibility of what was underneath added a whole new dimension to the challenge of driving in Sierra Leone. Hassan was born for this kind of driving!

I spent half my time taking pictures and other half holding my breath and feeling my heart jump into my mouth. There were ridiculously narrow bridges over deep gorges and on coming trucks around every corner. Daniel, no longer the bad traveller he was in Ireland, absolutely loved it!!

And it was oh so worth it in the end...

This was once a prime tourist location in West Africa, especially for French tourists in the 1980s. The former resort was know as Africana Tokey Village and had hundreds of rooms. The derelict, run down, reminents of Tokeh's heyday now sit beside the newer establishments which are amongst the most expensive along the peninsula.

But it's also still a fishing town and the view always has a boat or 3 in frame.