Second Day in Conakry (5 August 2013)

It was raining the whole night, and when I wake up on Monday morning, I found flood in my room. Since I was checking on the Internet for better hotel in Conakry, the first thing we have to do was change our hotel. When the two professor (Drs Bamba and Kitha), with a translator called Rene, came to pick us up, I boldly asked them to take us Riviera Hotel. After we checked out from the hostel, which is owned by Lebanese, we were driven to Riviera Hotel, again owned by another Lebanese. The rooms at Riviera is neat and the entire compound looks much safer than the previous. 

The institute's view just outside the main gate 
 

The institute's main building. My mag is hiding in the first floor (second window from left)

We went to the institute for the first time, and we were escorted to the director general office, which is big and fancy. The institute has different departments and for each department there is a director, the director of the entire institute is called director general (DG). The DG then escorted us to the room where our instrument has been stored. He gave us the room we want to put the instrument.

The most tiresome effort we had was to select a home for our sensor. It was raining hard but I had to take the sensor out and put it outside and leave it there for a test. We setup the computer, connect the the sensor, no GPS connected. That was the accomplishment for today.

          Surveying the surrounding to find a suitable cave for the sensor