Bush taxis cover the shorter runs between towns and reliable and cheap minibuses cover the longer routes. Trains no longer run anywhere in the country, despite the existence of train lines shown on maps. You can, however, often find rooms at the hotel-buffet at old stations. Roads are in poor condition and little used, and the minor roads are overgrown with bush. However, improvements are currently underway.
Traffic drives on the right.
Mt Nimba the country's highest peak and the northern dry low land. . . Its landscape varies from mountains to plains and from savannah to forest. The city is well laid out, its alleys shaded by mangrove and coconut palm trees. Guinea has few sandy beaches, but a great deal of cultural, historical, topographic and environmental diversity that can hold the attention of the visitor. Though its history is not particularly accessible at the moment, Guinea is integrally involved in the history of West Africa from the time of the grassland empires, through the Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, the fight for modern statehood and its course as an independent state.