Cote D'Ivoire Travel Blogs

Big Toy entre en cage !
Mar 15, 2008 (10 photos)

... de Bouc pour ceux qui connaissent !) où notre taxi nous dépose. Nous avisons un "maquis" avec poissons et entrons dans le restaurant d'à côté qui fleure bon le vrai restaurant! Salade de fruits de mer et langouste (2 par personne !) pour 16 euro le menu. Pas ...

Debut Cote d ivoire
Jan 13, 2009 (5 photos)

Et un pays de plus. Mais j ai une surprise en rentrant en cote d ivoire. Le drapeau que j ai vu flotter a la frontiere n etait pas du tout celui du pays, mais celui de la rebellion. Et la j ai du ceder a un des principes qui m est le plus cher : ne jamais ...

Niega
Jan 16, 2009 (16 photos)

... plage de Niega. Incroyable de beauté avec un vraiment sentiment d isolement. On a litteralement la plage pour soi. Et quelle plage !!! D un cote cocotier avec la mer et de l autre cote (il suffit de faire 10m) une lagune avec la jungle qui descend dans la ...

Plage preferee en cote divoire
Jan 19, 2009 (6 photos)

Nouvelle plage et il s agit de ma préférée en effet je suis resté 3 jours. Les plus sont : d etre dans un petit village mais qui possede les services de base comme pouvoir acheter de la confiture de fraise pour faire son petit dej. 2 Hotels de ...

De Banfora à Abidjan: destination finale atteinte
Mar 13, 2008 (5 photos)

Pour aller de la frontière ivoirienne à Bouaké (limite sud de la zone dite des Forces Nouvelles, comprendre anciens rebelles) on nous avait prévenu, il pouvait y avoir une cinquantaine de contrôles avec tentatives de racket à chaque fois. On atteste de ...

Yamoussoukro, Cote D'Ivoire
Apr 14, 2007 (22 photos)

... at all. 20:32 - Bess & Fidel (Playmates) arrive at the bus station and book a seat to Yamoussoukro, the capital of Cote D'Ivoire. Six minutes later, Phil & Sean arrive and do the same. 10:38 - Sarah & Buddy (Shared Hallucination) (3rd) ...

Man, North West Cote d'Ivoire
Jan 24, 2008 (7 photos)

Once the centre of Cote d'Ivoire's rich cultural heritage, the West of  the country, now governed by military groups or "rebels" operating under the banner Forces Nouvelles (A political grouping includes three military groups ...

Plages
Jan 14, 2009 (15 photos)

... journées, plage farniente et lecture le tout assaisonnéde fruit de mer. Je pars donc a la decouverte de la plus belle plage de cote d ivoire. La premiere escale sassandra. Les plus. Des ecrevisses pas cheres 1 euros les 4, mais il faut s habituer a la ...

Abidjan
Jan 21, 2009 (11 photos)

... touriste. En cote d ivoire il y a tres peu de touriste (j en ai pas vu d autre), et c est dommage car la situation est sure meme si tout peu basculer d un jour a l autre. La cote d ivoire a un gros potentiel touristique, mais chut autant en profiter.

Last Day in Cote d'Ivoire and departure
Jan 22, 2009 (1 photos)

This morning Paul came to the hotel with Diaby again at 9:30. I checked out, loaded my luggage into the trunk and we drove out to La Mé. The detours around the road work on the outskirts of town were even slower than they had been. People that ...

Visits around Man
Jan 20, 2009 (9 photos)

... that he was certainly correct.   Paul Tia spoke briefly about the group in La Mé and the work of the Church in Côte d'Ivoire. Then I introduced myself briefly and spoke for about half an hour on the work of the United Church of God, using Matthew 28: ...

Arrival in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Jan 17, 2009

... driver arrived. In the meanwhile I talked with an off-duty security agent who was leaning on the desk. He asked why I was in Côte d'Ivoire and what the weather was like at the origin of my trip. When I said -20 (Centigrade) he had trouble comprehending that ...

Abidjan guide
Jan 11, 2008 (4 photos)

... d'Ivoire and other countries in Africa that I was and hopefully will be lucky enough to visit while i'm here. Cote d'Ivoire is particularly interesting as it is chronically overlooked as a tourist destination by non-francophones.  Despite housing ...

Expedition into a recent war zone
Jan 19, 2009 (7 photos)

... came in. Some went home to Liberia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Sierra Leone, other went back to their homes in the north of Côte d'Ivoire, but the local boys that got caught up in the fight on the rebel side haven't had such an easy time going home. Some of ...

first day in CR
Jan 9, 2006

We made it safe and sound. The security issues that we all expected, did not materailze and was amazingly easy for all of us. The aadventure begins!

Saturday in and around Abidjan
Jan 18, 2009 (9 photos)

This morning I was up at 7:30 and feeling pretty rested. I wanted to print my sermon notes, and also a letter of comfort and condolence that I had sent to Mrs. Tia on the death of her 16 year-old son. I sent it to her in November, but I learned last ...

Back to Abidjan and the Presidential Inauguration
Jan 21, 2009 (5 photos)

Today was the long drive back from Man to Abidjan. I wanted to leave early so we'd be sure to make it back before dark. We packed and loaded at 07:00 so we could have a cup of coffee and leave by 07:30. Mamadou and Seussié were going to come with ...

End of camp and travel to Côte d'Ivoire
Aug 20, 2008 (3 photos)

... at Abidjan; the plane was going on to Conakry and Dakar. Formalities went quickly; there is no need for a visa in Côte d'Ivoire - that's a pleasant change from the nearby countries that make you pay through the nose for the privilege of visiting their ...

In Abidjan
Jan 23, 2008 (1 photos)

... would not include a visit to La Mé. I spent the day working in the room. I confirm upcoming flights on Air Senegal and Air Ivoire. But most of the time is spent putting the finishing touches on the next issue of Bonnes Nouvelles magazine, so that it can be ...

Plane change in Abidjan
Jan 29, 2008

... as soon as I checked out, we drove to the Africa Express hotel very near the airport. This is where the men from Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo and Rwanda had stayed during the conference.  I wanted to check out the hotel for future reference. Lomé has ...

A day at La Mé
Jan 23, 2008 (2 photos)

I stayed up until after 10:00 last night to have a better chance of sleeping through with my jet lag, but it didn't work, I woke up several times, but still felt pretty well rested this morning. Paul and Veïgène, the same driver we used last time I was ...

Arrival in Abidjan
Jan 22, 2008

... Europe goes wheels up in a few weeks.   Immigration and custom formalities are much quicker and better organized in Côte d'Ivoire than in other West African countries.  The level of education and development here is several notches higher. It's ...

first day in CR
Mar 9, 2006

We made it safe and sound. The security issues that we all expected, did not materailze and was amazingly easy for all of us. The aadventure begins!

Stuck in Abidjan
Sep 19, 2007 (1 photos)

... threatened, fired into an angry crowd a few years back during "the war" as it's called here.  No one outside Cote d'Ivoire batted en eye.  I think it was eighteen killed plus more wounded; no international outcry.  Imagine if US troops did ...

Lessons in Stoicism
Sep 18, 2007

I'm not supposed to be in Cote d'Ivoire tonight.  I'm supposed to be in Lomé, Togo according to my itinerary and plane tickets.  Today was quite an "African day."   In the morning I had visits with several church members who came to ...

Friday in La Mé
Sep 22, 2007 (3 photos)

This morning I didn't feel 100% when I woke; a little queasy and weak.  This happens once in a while, some microbe picked up the day before.  I hoped it would pass during the morning, and finally it did, but I wasn't at tope form in the ...

Thursday in La Mé
Sep 21, 2007 (8 photos)

Today was a very full day.  Paul arrived promptly at 8:00 with a taxi and driver named Veïgène, at least that's how it is spelled phonetically.  He was in a fairly-recent Citroën which still had a functioning adjustable air-suspension (a ...

Last Day in Cote d'Ivoire
Sep 23, 2007 (5 photos)

... learned with the help of songs.  They sang about being Christian soldiers (actually based on what people have been witnessing in Cote d'Ivoire the song came out "commandos for Christ" - I think I may need to discuss that song with Paul...). They ...

A day in Abidjan
Sep 20, 2007

... I have the "feel" of most of the African countries I visit, so I'd have some warning if something was amiss. But Côte d'Ivoire changes all the time, almost every time I come, because of their mercurial political and military situation.  I feel like it ...

Visits in La Mé and Abidjan
Aug 21, 2008 (8 photos)

... they would prepare.   We only went through one military checkpoint on the way out of town. When I first started coming to Côte d'Ivoire when the civil war was on, there would have been ten in the same distance. I asked Paul what happened to so ...