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A bō (棒) is a staff weapon used in Okinawa.
A bō (棒) is a staff weapon used in Okinawa. Rokushakubō are typically around 1.82 m (72 in) long and are used in Okinawan martial arts and Japanese arts such as bōjutsu. Other staff-related weapons are the jō, which does not have a standard length, and the hanbō, which is 90 cm (35 in) long.
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Worth seeing in and around Bo
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Roman Catholic Diocese of Bo
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bo was created in January 2011, split off from the Archdiocese of Freetown. There are about 50,000 Roman Catholics under the jurisdiction of the diocese.
900 m · diocese of the Catholic Church in Sierra Leone · Wikipedia - 02Bo Stadium
The Bo Stadium is a stadium located in Bo, Sierra Leone. The stadium has an all-seated capacity of 4,000, making it the second-largest stadium in Sierra Leone after the Siaka Stevens National Stadium in Freetown.
600 m · building in Sierra Leone · Wikipedia - 03Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral, Bo
The Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral also simply called Cathedral of Bo, is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church, and is located in the town of Bo the second largest in population and of the Southern Province, in the African country of Sierra Leone. The cathedral began as parish church until 2011 had the status of pro-cathedral.
200 m · Catholic cathedral in Sierra Leone · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bo
- Airports
- Lungi (FNA), 176 km · Roberts (ROB), 245 km · Ahmed Sékou Touré (CKY), 273 km
- Stations
- Bo Airport, 3.5 km
- Freetown (Lungi-Town) → Bo3 km · quickest by road, 16 min · $0.5
- Monrovia → Bo39 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · $4–6
- Conakry → Bo2 km · quickest by road, 5 min · $0
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bo
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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