And be sure you get every immunization and shot know to medical science. You'll need them, badly. What you see from that picture from 1500" bears no resemblance to what's going on in the streets down there. West Africa is a disease-infected crime-ridden sewer. You need lots of money to stay above the crime and disease line there, and even that may no help. I knew of a contract mechanic that contracted a very virulent form of malaria while working on the airplane at night. Died two weeks later after being evac'd back to the states. The physicians couldn't do anything for him.