Labé

Labé is a city in Moyenne Guinee region of Guinea.

Understand

Labé, home of about 59,000 people, is the regional capital of Moyenne Guinee, also known as Fouta Djallon. As well as being the largest city of its region, it is the second most populated one in the entire country, after Conakry, the national capital.

Labé lies close to the geographic centre of the country.

Get in

• Labé lies some 450 km northeast of Conakry.
• The street from Koundara to Labé is paved, except for a roughly 30km section starting after Komba, which is between Gaoual and Labé. A shared taxi costs 150,000 FG per person and takes 4-5 hours. (2023)

Do

Fouta Trekking offers all inclusive trekking through Fouta Djallon.

Sleep

• Hotel Provincial, quite good and clean if noisy because of a night club next door, has double rooms for 130'000 GFr.

• 1 Hotel Djamtum, ☏ +224 620 02 55 30. Four cozy and relatively big bungalows. There's a bar serving drinks and food. 300,000 GFr for a double room. (updated Aug 2023)

Go next

• Koundara
• Dalaba
• Kindia
• Mali (in northern Guinea)