Boké

Boké stands above the Rio Nunez in the bauxite country of the northwest, a river town whose small stone fort was a holding point for the slave trade and now keeps a museum in its cells. Ore has shaped everything since, and the railway down to the coast carries it out through mangrove to a loading port. That line has lately begun running a scheduled passenger service again, which is rare in this country. Beaches lie a long drive to the west at Cape Verga. Boats go out into the mangrove channels below the town.