The Eastern Province is famous for diamond and gold mining activities within heavily forested hills. It is a place of unrelenting beauty, home to rich biodiversity in the country’s first rainforest National Park at Gola Forest with jungle-covered green hills, rare birds, aged trees, chimps and the odd pygmy hippo. The area is perfect for adventure lovers. Traveling from Freetown to Kenema takes around five hours by four-wheel drive vehicle.