I lived and taught in Suakoko, Liberia @ Cuttington University, 54 years ago! I remember Nimba Mtn as a lusciously green majestic Mtn just at the early stages of iron ore mining! I have some interesting slides and photos of my many trips to Nimba! I am viewing your video for the third time! Nostalgic and sad! Thank you. John T. Wolfe, Jr., Ph.D.
I am loving this! I grew up in Ghana. Im 75% Liberian and 25% Ghanian. I have some Togolese in me. Since moving to the USA at 9 years old, 15 years ago, I haven't been back. Planned to visit west African countries but covid 19 happens. I'm living vicariously through you.
Love your video clips from Liberia. I was in Yekepa during the 1980's did you go up to the top you have to go to the left of the blue lake and there you should find a pool (at least it was there when I was there last time) you can have a swim and view the national park on the south side of Mt Nimba. The next place you should have visited is there should be a Big hut on the West side of Mt Nimba with a spectacular view. To get there you have to ride the old road up Mt Nimba. I can't see on your film if you took the new LAMCO road up the mountain passing the old loading silos or if you tock the old LAMCO road (longer but much more beautiful)... Good luck on your journey.
David Johansson we actually took both roads - the first part is from the old one (as the rangers said it’s much nicer and we do the rest if we still have time afterwards...), the second part is passing by the silos. But we missed for sure out on the pool you are describing - it’s the fault of the rangers broken down motorcycle as we had to do explore that part alone 😂. Were you there as a traveler or for work?
Saludos desde Venezuela, muy interesantes y educativos tus videos, asta lo momento me esta gustando Mauritania y Liberia, pienso que Liberia esta mas desarrolada que los otros paises que has recorrido, veamos como es Costa de Marfil. Saludos desde Venezuela
Wow, superb! Wish I had found that area, another excellent video showing such diverse places, loved your commentary too LOL! How wonderful they treated you so well and what a breakfast 👍 I met a wonderful German lady who was living in Sierra Leone and whilst we were talking she asked me if the poor roads were ''ungemütlich'' on my bike, a new to me then amazingly descriptive German word I have used ever since, I remembered as your accent is so similar! Take care, thanks again for sharing.
I must say you’re Got2GO is exciting well done 👍 your positivity and passion to go where few have gone before love your music and beautiful is the people are helpful, peaceful and poor and still full of life. Really enjoyed your presentation every time I see you and your friend thank you so so much to see amazing people and all these cultures the food not so much the fruit 🍌 oranges 🍊 must be fresh tasting and good 🏍🌎✅❤️
Quality video Leah, Mount Nimba looked great fun. Amazing how nature heals the scars we humans make on the land. I might trade in my KTM to big and heavy adventure bike for a cheap Chinese 125. After all they seem to cope well with the tough terrain and carry more passengers, and you wouldn’t get all those bananas in your Mosko Moto’s would you?😅. Well Miss GOT2GO I’ve GOT2GO 2sleep 💤. Just got in from doing a late shift. Ride carefully 👋👀
You are an amazing woman.. very beautiful.. calm, affectionate and kind.. Your smile is amazing. I like your calmness.. and your humility. Your words have magic.. You are beautiful in everything.. I follow you from Jordan.. Greetings to you wherever you are... Lea Rieck i like you 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍AKRAM JORDAN---FROM JORDAN
Found your channel while following ItchyBoots. Have been following your African journey till now. Will complete all the episodes and then buy your book. Awesome commentary and awesome drone footage. As a help for future motorcyclists, can you list a set of things that got broken on the motorcycles while on the African journey? I think Africa poses different kind of challenges for the motorcycle and the body. So far, I've seen the clutch plate and the clutch lever issues. May be more.
I made a big review about my motorcycle, you can find it in my recent videos - the Yamaha Tenere 700 - and there I say all the issues I had. But it basically weren’t more than the clutch cable! 😍
Thanks for sharing such an amazing place, it's like bike's paradise, nothing can stop you guys but yourselves :) Luckily you always happen to meet friendly locals, it's too bad to see how a man can destroy nature for greed, I'm guessing the water stopped them to do further damage ! By the way, your bikes need some serious TLC just like you guys eheh, dust goes everywhere ! I just wish your videos were a little longer though but in the meantime have a safe journey, happy trails !!!
Sehr schoenes Video, danke! Habe zufaellig heute ein ebenso bergiges Eisenerzrevier in Suedamerika besucht. Es ist allerdings noch weitgehend unberuehrt
Your attitude and style of dealing with borders is very smart. You're obviously an experienced and smart traveler! Your bike handling skills seem to be pretty good too...or is it you just don't show yourself dropping the bike? 😉
Rod Holmes I don’t know how hat happened on this journey - I normally drop a motorcycle as soon as I look at it 😂. Maybe I decided to not drop it that often this time because my travel partner does it all the time (even if it doesn’t look like that: he is as well a better rider than I. What I didn’t mention in the video is that he dropped the bike behind me because I had some problems riding up some loose stones - so he had to slow down to not run into me and got a bit too slow to get over that lose stones....).
Lamco, the company that initiated the Yekep iron ore mine in the early 60s did not manufacture any steel. The ore was transported to the coast, processed to pellets with high concentration of iron content and then exported to actual steel factories in Europe, the US and elsewhere.
Ah, very interesting. Now it’s part of arcelor Mittal - which I think is a steel company. I am actually not sure at all if the old factory that we were looking for was a steel factory - or maybe just one for the iron ore. I actually have not thought about it until I read your comment. 😅
@@Got2Go Arcelor is indeed a steel company, and exactly like its predecessors it exports the ore to be turned to steel on other continents. What you were looking for was not a factory, but the huge crusher plant building that would break down the large boulders of earth/ore that were blasted out of the mountain. I grew up in Yekepa in the 60s and 70s and my father essentially ran the crusher up there during that time. The silo facility in your video at the bottom of the mountain was connected to that crusher by 3 stretches of very long conveyor belts. The ore trains would be loaded under the silos for their trip to the coast(Buchanan). I had asked one of my friends and former neighbors still living near Yekepa that if he saw you guys to buy you a Liberian Club Beer, but unfortunately you probably had already moved on to Ivory Coast due to the lag between when you visit a place to when you get to post videos. Anyway, thanks for the beautiful visuals! Weiterhin gute Reise!
peter gaul oh wow that is such good information - we didn’t get so much background infos of that part unfortunately because of the rangers broken bike. Thanks so much! If we come back to Liberia (chances are not so small that we might pass by there again at one point) I will let you know!
Midlife Biker i have mounted the Garmin Zumo 350 (I think that’s my version, it’s very old but I had it since years...) on a mount from Touratech. The mount is lockable - I always take it with me at night, but if I park it somwhere during the day that lock comes very handy...
Hi guys excellent vid on top of the mountain yes that is a magical mystery tour but still outstanding place and what's a view thanks for sharing your thoughts and information cheers stay safe 😉🏍👍
I didn't know that Nimba had been declared a UNESCO heritage site. My family and I had only left Yekepa in 1976. It must be that the recent operations of Arcellor Mittal must be in another location near Yekepa
FERRY KANA yes, you can camp there but should be with one of the rangers as well as it’s still a mining area where you should not hang around alone. Some people even stay several days on top of the mountains!
Wow!! Hope one day i can do a rtw like you ! Still on recovery from last accident now and watching your videos during the time is very inspiring me to get fot again and do the same like you
5 people thumbs down. Idiots. Great adventure filming and a German with a great sense of humour. So it's not just Henning Wehn. Great work Lea. Making lockdown bearable.
Oh thank you! 😁🙏🏻 Always wondering who gives thumbs down to things that are related to traveling with a motorcycle anyways - must be people without a heart for adventure. 😂
This is the coolest place in Liberia 🇱🇷. My great grand father once told me that his father said that snow 🌨 falls here during their days.
I lived and taught in Suakoko, Liberia @ Cuttington University, 54 years ago! I remember Nimba Mtn as a lusciously green majestic Mtn just at the early stages of iron ore mining! I have some interesting slides and photos of my many trips to Nimba! I am viewing your video for the third time! Nostalgic and sad! Thank you.
John T. Wolfe, Jr., Ph.D.
Oh wow that must have looked so different then! Thank you for your message, always so great to hear other people’s stories!
Would you mind sharing those beautiful photos of your many trips up the mount mountain. 🙏🏾
I am loving this! I grew up in Ghana. Im 75% Liberian and 25% Ghanian. I have some Togolese in me. Since moving to the USA at 9 years old, 15 years ago, I haven't been back. Planned to visit west African countries but covid 19 happens. I'm living vicariously through you.
Africa is free from the deadly virus crisis ... make hasty efforts to come home to mother's land ✌🏾🎉🎉😊🌹
Liberia my belove country 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎
Thanks for this beautiful video my home country Liberia ,🇱🇷.
Its so beautiful your country!
Spectacular your videos, your comments and the music, thank you very much. Alfonso from Buenos Aires Argentina.
I love buenos aires, one of my favorite cities. have been there some yeras ago on my worldtrip (unfortunately didnt do any videos back then...)
You have a lovely sense of humour! The best dancer in Africa and bananas! ☺🌴
Love your video clips from Liberia. I was in Yekepa during the 1980's did you go up to the top you have to go to the left of the blue lake and there you should find a pool (at least it was there when I was there last time) you can have a swim and view the national park on the south side of Mt Nimba. The next place you should have visited is there should be a Big hut on the West side of Mt Nimba with a spectacular view. To get there you have to ride the old road up Mt Nimba. I can't see on your film if you took the new LAMCO road up the mountain passing the old loading silos or if you tock the old LAMCO road (longer but much more beautiful)... Good luck on your journey.
David Johansson we actually took both roads - the first part is from the old one (as the rangers said it’s much nicer and we do the rest if we still have time afterwards...), the second part is passing by the silos. But we missed for sure out on the pool you are describing - it’s the fault of the rangers broken down motorcycle as we had to do explore that part alone 😂. Were you there as a traveler or for work?
Thank you for bringing more of Africa into RUclips and my world 🌍 👏👏👏
Yet another great episode. Your drone footage is spectacular.
Jim8208 thank you 🙂. Next episode unfortunately will not have any drone footage as it’s strictly forbidden in Côte d’Ivoire...
@@Got2Go I'm sure it will be a great episode none the less.
Lea you are an excellent guide and host. Enjoy your videos very much. Stay safe. Cheers ! ✌️😀🇨🇦
Macht immer wieder Spaß Euch zuzusehen. Danke für die tollen Eindrücke
Nimba mountains are massive amazing, so peaceful...
Grateful for sharing this video.
Its great to hear the excitement and passion in your voice as you keep discovering new adventures. looking forward to the next episode!
Bryan Hartshorn Mount Nimba was one of my favorite areas of the trip 😍
Thanks again Leah, for coming through with this beautiful adventurous video of Mount Nimba 😊🎉👍🏾
Allo !! sehr schönes Video, ich bin ein Fan. Es wird jedes Mal besser und besser. freue mich auf den nächsten
Motoristic Live Your Dreams danke, das freut mich sehr!
Wow beautiful liberia
So nice to join your journey. Thanks for the wonderful video
once again! .. what a beautiful world this is!!! thank you for making us all dream!
very real and very good :)
Thank you for the awesome footage of the Nimba mountain range
Saludos desde Venezuela, muy interesantes y educativos tus videos, asta lo momento me esta gustando Mauritania y Liberia, pienso que Liberia esta mas desarrolada que los otros paises que has recorrido, veamos como es Costa de Marfil.
Saludos desde Venezuela
You just got a new subscriber from Liberia 🇱🇷.
That's my home County Nimba.
I'm currently living in Monrovia.
It’s absolutely beautiful!
Not a only video .. complete "documentary" 👍👍
Amazing! What an incredible lake!!!
Great video again Lea! 👍🏻👍🏻🏍🏍🏍🌍
You have a fabulous sense of humor.
All the video are great lot off lovely places you go through .
Great video👍🏽👍🏽 I like the music mix & commentary 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Your journey was awesome
just found this channel. i think its one of the best for motorcycle journeys.great.
Another fantastic day, thanks 👍 💚
Wow, superb! Wish I had found that area, another excellent video showing such diverse places, loved your commentary too LOL! How wonderful they treated you so well and what a breakfast 👍 I met a wonderful German lady who was living in Sierra Leone and whilst we were talking she asked me if the poor roads were ''ungemütlich'' on my bike, a new to me then amazingly descriptive German word I have used ever since, I remembered as your accent is so similar! Take care, thanks again for sharing.
Paul Cosgrove hahaha, love that word to describe roads ... yeah, these ones were a little bit ungemütlich. 😍😂
Yea. I definitely want to continue the journey with you 🥰
Sooo beautiful! I love the music as well.
I must say you’re Got2GO is exciting well done 👍 your positivity and passion to go where few have gone before love your music and beautiful is the people are helpful, peaceful and poor and still full of life. Really enjoyed your presentation every time I see you and your friend thank you so so much to see amazing people and all these cultures the food not so much the fruit 🍌 oranges 🍊 must be fresh tasting and good 🏍🌎✅❤️
Thank you, love this!
Once again amazing scenery & a great display of off road skills 😍😍😍from 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I love it I
I love my country Liberia
War is bad...once upon a time, Yekepa was so beautiful...
Great videos, great narrative! 👌 Makes me think more seriously about going on a similar adventure myself.
Quality video Leah, Mount Nimba looked great fun. Amazing how nature heals the scars we humans make on the land. I might trade in my KTM to big and heavy adventure bike for a cheap Chinese 125. After all they seem to cope well with the tough terrain and carry more passengers, and you wouldn’t get all those bananas in your Mosko Moto’s would you?😅.
Well Miss GOT2GO I’ve GOT2GO 2sleep 💤. Just got in from doing a late shift. Ride carefully 👋👀
Andy Teague some bananas would suit the Tenere very good though. 😍
Thank you for showing our beautiful country ❤🥰
Wonderful video. Thank you. 👍
Good luck on your trip.i love you
B.E.A.U.tiful place and locals :)
I do like your video.
Good video I can't wait to visit Nimba Mountain
Beautiful for road no 1
Really enjoyed your footage..
Top notch video...
Excellent as usual
Where I grew up, Good Work
JAH MUZIK it’s such a beautiful place!
You are an amazing woman.. very beautiful.. calm, affectionate and kind.. Your smile is amazing. I like your calmness.. and your humility. Your words have magic.. You are beautiful in everything.. I follow you from Jordan.. Greetings to you wherever you are...
Lea Rieck i like you 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍AKRAM JORDAN---FROM JORDAN
Following your travels all the way through. your doing just great. The drone clips are awesome, good luck.
Another hidden tresor of the world you let us see, thank you
Great vids...and moustache..😁
Shout out from philipines
Thank you very much for turkish subtitle. I like 👍
Very nice video!!👍🏻😎
AWESOME
Not AutoBahn but GrottoBahn.... the caves are in the road 🤣🤣. Beautiful drone shots.
Found your channel while following ItchyBoots. Have been following your African journey till now. Will complete all the episodes and then buy your book. Awesome commentary and awesome drone footage. As a help for future motorcyclists, can you list a set of things that got broken on the motorcycles while on the African journey? I think Africa poses different kind of challenges for the motorcycle and the body. So far, I've seen the clutch plate and the clutch lever issues. May be more.
I made a big review about my motorcycle, you can find it in my recent videos - the Yamaha Tenere 700 - and there I say all the issues I had. But it basically weren’t more than the clutch cable! 😍
@@Got2Go Thank you!
Thanks.
Awesome! 👍
My ancestral home. Long live Nimba
superb..
Thanks for sharing such an amazing place, it's like bike's paradise, nothing can stop you guys but yourselves :) Luckily you always happen to meet friendly locals, it's too bad to see how a man can destroy nature for greed, I'm guessing the water stopped them to do further damage ! By the way, your bikes need some serious TLC just like you guys eheh, dust goes everywhere ! I just wish your videos were a little longer though but in the meantime have a safe journey, happy trails !!!
You had your food in ArcelorMittal canteen.. still the same..working there 😁😁😁
That's my home, I have been up that mountain countless times.
More good work
Beautiful
when will you be in Uganda. ..and what music do you use as your background. .love it
Sehr schoenes Video, danke! Habe zufaellig heute ein ebenso bergiges Eisenerzrevier in Suedamerika besucht. Es ist allerdings noch weitgehend unberuehrt
Watchand Knock oh, das war sicher auch ein tolles Erlebnis! Wo genau warst du?
@@Got2Go Bei Porteirinha Brasilien
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Your attitude and style of dealing with borders is very smart. You're obviously an experienced and smart traveler! Your bike handling skills seem to be pretty good too...or is it you just don't show yourself dropping the bike? 😉
Rod Holmes I don’t know how hat happened on this journey - I normally drop a motorcycle as soon as I look at it 😂. Maybe I decided to not drop it that often this time because my travel partner does it all the time (even if it doesn’t look like that: he is as well a better rider than I. What I didn’t mention in the video is that he dropped the bike behind me because I had some problems riding up some loose stones - so he had to slow down to not run into me and got a bit too slow to get over that lose stones....).
Good work!
Nice ride and awesome blue lake.
Another great video. The workers live in containers in the miningtown?
O K yes, there are a lot of these container homes, that the workers share.
Lamco, the company that initiated the Yekep iron ore mine in the early 60s did not manufacture any steel. The ore was transported to the coast, processed to pellets with high concentration of iron content and then exported to actual steel factories in Europe, the US and elsewhere.
Ah, very interesting. Now it’s part of arcelor Mittal - which I think is a steel company. I am actually not sure at all if the old factory that we were looking for was a steel factory - or maybe just one for the iron ore. I actually have not thought about it until I read your comment. 😅
@@Got2Go Arcelor is indeed a steel company, and exactly like its predecessors it exports the ore to be turned to steel on other continents. What you were looking for was not a factory, but the huge crusher plant building that would break down the large boulders of earth/ore that were blasted out of the mountain. I grew up in Yekepa in the 60s and 70s and my father essentially ran the crusher up there during that time. The silo facility in your video at the bottom of the mountain was connected to that crusher by 3 stretches of very long conveyor belts. The ore trains would be loaded under the silos for their trip to the coast(Buchanan). I had asked one of my friends and former neighbors still living near Yekepa that if he saw you guys to buy you a Liberian Club Beer, but unfortunately you probably had already moved on to Ivory Coast due to the lag between when you visit a place to when you get to post videos. Anyway, thanks for the beautiful visuals! Weiterhin gute Reise!
peter gaul oh wow that is such good information - we didn’t get so much background infos of that part unfortunately because of the rangers broken bike. Thanks so much! If we come back to Liberia (chances are not so small that we might pass by there again at one point) I will let you know!
What is the sat nav mount you have on the T7 ? Good videos by the way
Midlife Biker i have mounted the Garmin Zumo 350 (I think that’s my version, it’s very old but I had it since years...) on a mount from Touratech. The mount is lockable - I always take it with me at night, but if I park it somwhere during the day that lock comes very handy...
unglaublich nice, grüße aus bayern von ner africa twin :)
Thomas G Grüße zurück - vielleicht solltest du deine twin auch mal nach Afrika entführen, sie macht sich gut dort. :)
Really! was he down eating gravel again! Your travelling partner would probably need a pair of support wheels :D
Nice video quality. Also, what is the song name in your video? The 1st one...
It’s all royalty free music from epidemic sound. Unfortunately I don’t know the name anymore…
Hi guys excellent vid on top of the mountain yes that is a magical mystery tour but still outstanding place and what's a view thanks for sharing your thoughts and information cheers stay safe 😉🏍👍
Isn't that bananas? Then a motorbike loaded with bananas drives by. I like what you did there.
I didn't know that Nimba had been declared a UNESCO heritage site. My family and I had only left Yekepa in 1976. It must be that the recent operations of Arcellor Mittal must be in another location near Yekepa
Can man camp at that Nimba Highland ? It was so beautiful !
FERRY KANA yes, you can camp there but should be with one of the rangers as well as it’s still a mining area where you should not hang around alone. Some people even stay several days on top of the mountains!
Wow!! Hope one day i can do a rtw like you ! Still on recovery from last accident now and watching your videos during the time is very inspiring me to get fot again and do the same like you
Nice adventure
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Next trip please
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5 people thumbs down. Idiots. Great adventure filming and a German with a great sense of humour. So it's not just Henning Wehn.
Great work Lea. Making lockdown bearable.
Oh thank you! 😁🙏🏻
Always wondering who gives thumbs down to things that are related to traveling with a motorcycle anyways - must be people without a heart for adventure. 😂
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