We headed off to the Guinea-Bissau consulate getting there about 9:30AM. There were already a few people there waiting on visas including a pastor from Dallas who had come overland from Dakar. The visa was super easy, required a passport photo or passport photocopy + 20k CFA ($33.35). As we were waiting, a tour group of 60-year old American women pulls up. Guinea-Bissau seemed like an odd destination for that demographic! We had our visas in hand by 10AM.We went in search of an ATM, the one I'd used yesterday didn't work. It started drizzling as we walked around. Finally found one that worked, right next to the hotel. There was a line of people waiting and they said usually this is the ATM that didn't work!Got to GB consulate abt 9:30, pastor from Dallas, had come overland from Dakar. Very easy process, just a passport photo or photocopy of passport and 20k CFA ($33.50). Got there just in time as a tourbus full of older American and German ladies arrived to get their visas. Seems an odd demographic going to Guinea-Bissau. We had our visas in hand by 10AM.I had already spent most of my CFA so wandered around town to find a working ATM, and it started drizzling rain. Today the streets were much busier than yesterday (Sunday). Finally found a working ATM right next to the hotel, one of the guys waiting in line said this was the ATM that usually didn't work!Caught a taxi (500 CFA) to the gare routiere where ironmanjt helped negotiate a Guinea-Bissau share taxi all the way to Bissau. 38000 CFA ($63.75) for the whole taxi and we were off. This sept-place had a fabulous purple shag seats. We set off about 11:30AM. The border was only about 15kms away and we were processed through quickly. Another change of language, this time from French to Portuguese.Shag Purple Taxi, Ziguinchor-BissauThe road in Guinea-Bissau was in decent condition most of the way. Local kids were selling peeled oranges alongside the road. Definitely a poorer country than Senegal. The main official economy is peanuts and cashews. The unofficial economy is drug transit between South America and Europe.DanielW buying orangesWe arrived in Bissau about 2:30 and went to the taxi park before asking the driver to take us all the way to the hotel. He didn't know where it was so had to get a local guy to come along with us. At first they took us to the Coimbra Bar, not Coimbra hotel. I used my GPS to direct him the right way. Bissau was the dustiest capital I had seen so far. Even the main street was just bright red dust.The Coimbra hotel was the most expensive so far, $120/nt. Air con was good and wifi worked occasionally. The rain had stopped so DanielW and I decided to go out exploring a bit. The Catholic church was next door to the hotel. One thing I've noticed traveling in countries, in English-speaking countries churches seem to always be open. In Portuguese countries, churches are locked. Not sure of the reason, but all the churches we visited in Angola and Sao Tome were closed as well. The town definitely had a run-down feel. We wandered down to the port area before going into Bissau Velho (Old Bissau), a few square blocks of colorful colonial buildings.As we were wandering, some guys came up to us and asked if we wanted a boat out to the Bijagos islands. The Bijagos archipelago is one of the tourist draws, there is a ferry that is supposed to run on Fridays, returning on Sunday. Otherwise the option is by expensive (and not-so-safe) speedboats or piroges. Then asked where we were from. I said Kazakhstan (my go-to country) and the guy starts speaking to me in Russian! Go figure, he'd spent 8 years in Russia. They kept following us but finally we shook them off.Bissau, Guinea-BissauWandered past the fort (still in use by the military, so no photos!) and up to a church. We noticed a good-looking restaurant we planned to come back to for dinner. The O-Bistro seemed to be the place to go for expats. It was already pretty busy when we arrived and as we were eating about 5 SUVs pulled up, full of Chinese workers. Good food too. I had tagliatele with shrimp and caramel crepes for dessert, but I think ironman's profiterole looked better.O BistroHotel Coimbra