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- N'Djamena
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Top Hotels in Chad
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Kempinski Hotel N'Djamena
18 reviews -
Novotel N'Djamena La Tchadienne
40 reviews -
Le Meridien Chari N'Djamena
21 reviews
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Travel Blogs from Chad, Chad
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Niamey to Ndjamena
This is a top pick! ... in fascinating outfits against the Harmattan winds, carrying swords, bows and arrows and wearing pointy hats. Crossing into Chad was surprisingly hassle free, the police in this country have a bad reputation for being corrupt and subtracting bribes ...
Lake Chad
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Lake Chad in our entry from Ndjamena, Chad entitled 'Niamey to Ndjamena'. Cheers, K & ...
A message from Darda
Now that it's the holidays, I miss everyone so much, and I'm sorry that I have not been able to write wonderful descriptions of Chad on this blog yet. It's overwhelming when I even think of trying to put it all into words. I promise I will work on ...
Arrive in N'Djamena
We arrived in N'Djamena at 9:30pm. As soon as we walked into the airport, the power went off, and the Peace Corps staff says, "Bienvenu au Chad." Fortunately, it came back on a few minutes later and everyone got their ...
Holidays in N'Djamena
... ; I feel safe in Mongo. I live next door to the principal (proviseur) of the school, and knowing him, you would think Chad, or at least, Mongo, was a pretty organized place. He's always working on vaccination campaigns or helping the other NGOs, I swear ...
My first week in Chad
... We passed the time there doing ice-breakers, getting to know one another, getting used to Turkish toilets, and marveling at everything in Chad. We also got to visit the Peace Corps office, which is really nice - air conditioned with a nice lounge, real ...
Chad
... and been a great volunteer but it was the circumstances she found herself in that forced her to leave. That sounds like an exaggeration; Chad is so hard that people must have relief in leaving, but the longer I stay here the more I see how hard it ...
Et au Tchad
Ils savent accueillir les tchadiens. Douaniers, Policiers cela est normal mais je ne m attendais pas a passer par la case DST avant de rentrer dans ce pays. DST signifie bien la même chose qu en France, ce sont les services de renseignements qui bien ...
Cases d argile
J ai pris une moto a partir de la ville de Maroua direction la frontiere du tchad pour voir une tribu qui possede des cases en argiles tres photogenique. Le periple vers la frontiere a été plus long que prevu soit plus de 200km A/R avec des pannes ...
Happy New Year
I'm sitting at my desk, with my kerosene lamp and shortwave radio thinking that this is almost what I imagined when I tried to picture what it would be like in the Peace Corps. I'm also wondering what people back home are doing for New Year's, and ...
La Nouvelle Reine de Guera
... Guera. First, it's in the "North" though as you can see on the map, it's hardly in the Northern part of Chad. Well, that's because there really isn't anything up there except some landmines left over from wars with Libya, some really stunning landscape, ...
Finally a volunteer
... , I had to edit my last entry because we're not supposed to give our exact city for security reasons, but I sent some pictures of Chad and pinpointed where I am so that you'll know where I am. Otherwise, I'm doing great - so psyched about getting to site ...
Grand mosque (N'Djamena, Chad)
One of the most striking buildings in the citycentre is the Grande Mosquee. From far you can see the high minarets, so this mosque is an important landmark to find your way in town. Chad has about 7,5 million inhabitants. most of them are muslims ...
Crossing the Chari river-Ndjamena-capital of Chad
... pools (day tickets available for 15 euros) are the "Méridien", the "Novotel", and the "Kempinski Libya", financed by Chad's influential northern neighbour. The meeting place of the expats here is simply called "Bistro de N'djamena, well stocked with ...
Wild, Wonderful Chad
... most people do rain, in that all business stops & everyone retreats into whatever shelter is around until it's over. Chad is an Arabic nation, & therefore strictly Muslim (unlike the loose Muslim cultures I've been used to from the coastal ...
N'djamena, ville centenaire...
Encore à N'djamena, en un an, pas beaucoup de changements visibles, la place de la nation a été achevée, l'hopital de la mère et l'enfant ...
First days in the desert
Our first couple of days was spent mainly traveling & getting to know the team. Our destination was quite a ways away from the Capital city of N'Djamena, in the northeastern part of the country (the most dangerous one, it turns out : / ) & ...
Danger?
Well I didn't quite realize just how dangerous this part of the world was when I agreed to this assignment; due to the possibility of attack by rebels & bandits in the bush (normally after vehicles, & sometimes hostages : 0 ), all aid workers are ...
Refugee Camp
Once at the refugee camp, it was everything & nothing like I'd expected: the camp itself is more like a tightly-knit village, housing huts with thatched roofs & large courtyards enclosed by mud walls, rather than army tents & crying ...
news from Chad
... Jenny all expected in next 1-3 days via Yaounde/Cameroon. Office and pers accom being sorted .... main mtng room in RC being set-up as Chad country office in exile - not to run ops, but to be able to stay in touch. c. Plans: * decisions to be made in ...
A stop-over in Ndjamena
When the descent had begun I thought we were having an emergency landing. A flat scorched landscape as far as the eyes can see. That was, and I think still remains, ...
news from Chad
... team in Ndjamena, ii) negative impact of the ongoing violence in Ndjamena, the only supply route for the humanitarian programmes in eastern Chad. 4. The team in Abeche, to work on a medium term plan (1 month from now), based on the fact that the current ...
Jan 19, 2011
Normalcy
As always, the kids are the most inspiring & photogenic. Contrary to popular belief, these are normal, happy African kids, put to work at an early age, just like in most African countries. The hardships people are able to endure is amazing, and ...
Interviews
Our job was to interview as many of the women in the refugee camp who used solar cookers as we could, and then compile their answers & opinions in a fair & objective evaluation of the solar cooking project that TchadSolaire had been operating for ...
Friends
The people that we worked with on a day-to-day basis became so precious to us, and I was not the only overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of these people. What an amazing experience, I was so lucky to be a part of this process. ...
Cultural Exchange
On our last day in the camp, just about every refugee in possession of a solar cooker congregated in the 'town center' for a great big solar cooking festival & feast, as a thankyou to us & especially to TchadSolaire. It was quite a scene, ...
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