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Association pal'abre
Association aiming at promoting the development of durable and equitable rural tourism in Guinea.
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Of a surface of 245.857 km ², Guinea shelters 8 million inhabitants of which approximately 3 occupy the peninsula of Conakry, the capital.
It offers an inheritance of bioecologic diversity and a relief single in West Africa.
Constituted by four quite distinct natural areas, maritime Guinea, the average Guinea, high Guinea and forest Guinea, the natural heritage of Guinea offers a very contrasted landscape, with a rich fauna, a dense flora and a great cultural diversity.
In maritime Guinea, the area of Kindia, in particular offers great possibilities of excursions in solid masses culminating to 1100 meters and a very rich cultural discovery. The area is inhabited by the Soussou ethnos group, majority and of nomadisant the Peul stockbreeders.
The relief of the Guinea average consists of solid masses and mountainous plates culminating with 1500 meters of altitude whose papered slopes of forests dissimulate a multitude of sources, torrents and impressive cataracts. The discovery of the culture and the architecture of the Peul people within the framework of itinerant excursions or out of stars is a considerable asset in the voyages suggested.
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Forest Guinea or the Forest, as it is commonly called, is located at the borders of the country. Very isolated and difficult from access, it is of in particular animalist interest, with the chimpanzees with Bossou and the elephants of mountain in the classified forest of Ziama. Within the framework of a more difficult excursion, the Nimba Mount, classified World heritage of UNESCO, offers its primary forest, its mountain pastures of altitude and a multitude of animalist species, of which certain endemic, like the viviparous clamping plate and the dwarf hippopotamus.
Guinea has great high contents in bauxite (the 2nd world reserve), gold and diamond. Its agriculture is in full expansion, even if it is still far from being self-sufficing.
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The tourist assets of Guinea are multiple…
The relief, of course, which allows the amateurs of nature of walking in sumptuous landscapes, strolls one hour to the trek several days in total autonomy.
The hydrographic network such as it is called the "water Tower of West Africa", with in particular the sources of Niger, Senegal and Gambia which cross the country, but also Fétoré and Kakrima which irrigates part of Fouta Djalon through multiple splendid water falls where it is good to be refreshed!
The population which, as soon as one leaves the capital, is extremely accessible and cordial. The fact that tourism hardly starts in Guinea, protected its inhabitants from the human harmful effects that tourism of mass started in many countries of Africa and the situation should not change in the future because the lack of road infrastructures and lodgings, the distance of the natural sites will not make it possible "traditional" tourism to develop before long years.
The government, if it does not have the possibility of really helping with the development of tourism, known as conscious of the need for directing the tourist activity in the years to come towards durable and equitable rural tourism.
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