Gandalf Around The World: Kindia, Guinea.

2019-03-21/23 : And again, waterfalls! Around Kindia this time. "Les Eaux de Kissili" and "Le Voile de la Mariée".

On the 200 km track from Doucki to Kindia

Les Eaux de Kissili (2019-03-21) some 15 km south-south-west of Kindia.

From the camp we take the direction of the falls in the late afternoon. First from the top. We cross the river by the top of the falls, which allows us to take a plunging look on the basin at the foot of the waterfall. We then go along the left bank, still at the top, trying to find a way to go down to the river. We quickly find a small path after a hundred meters. Once at the bottom we go up to the basin in fairly dense vegetation. A young couple is already lounging there.
The site is idyllic and quiet at the foot of a cliff of about fifteen meters high from which the river jumps into a beautiful waterfall, although in this late dry season it does not carry much water. We enjoy a good moment of this atmosphere sitting on rocks and feet in the water.

Along the river back up to the waterfall

Back at the camp

Le Voile de la Mariée (2019-03-22 / 23) some 12 km south-est of Kindia.

Today we take the road to another waterfall that we reach less than half an hour later. "Le Voile de la Mariée" (The Veil of the Bride). They are 2 km south of the N1 accessible by a good track.
We find a camp with boxes for tourists but it seems abandoned (or at least very poorly maintained). It is possible to bivouac some 300 m further directly at the foot of the falls.
We are barely in place as the guard arrives. He claims 10,000 GNF (0.99 €) per person as entrance fee on the site. Without receipt! but I read on our guide that it is actually the rate. For the bivouac he asks us 100,000 GNF. But this is probably for his pocket. It's way too much and I negotiate the night at 50,000 GNF (€ 4.97). Which is still too expensive for a parking without any comfort but reasonable considering the idyllic environment about ten meters from the falls, in a bamboo forest and other tropical trees inhabited by a colony of monkeys that we are going to have leisure to observe several times.