Labé

Labé is the capital of the northern highlands and the town everything in the Fouta Djallon is reached from, a busy trading centre of low buildings on a plateau where the nights are cool all year. It has no particular sight of its own beyond a large market and an old mosque, but it is where the vehicles, the guides and the beds are. The road up from the coast is long and the road onward north is worse. Waterfalls lie about an hour out in several directions. Families living abroad come home to here.