Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire Travel Blogs

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

... pas cher, mais nous ne dirons rien pour ne pas énerver ceux qui prennent les taxis en France! Belle ville qu'Abidjan, moderne, active, industrielle, relativement propre, apparemment peu polluée, rien à voir avec une ville africaine. Néanmoins, il fait 35° ( ...

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

... , sans aucun problème, à la fois heureux, soulagés, mais regrettant déjà de ne pas rencontrer quelque nouvelle aventure. Arrivée à Abidjan, 18:00. Nous trouvons un hôtel indiqué par un pote de Nouakchott, directement, sans adresse, sans plan, sans guide, sans ...

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 ...

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)

... . What a mess for everyone. (The writing on this taxi says "God protect us" an appropriate prayer when driving in Abidjan...).   With that slowdown, it took us until nearly 12:00 to reach La Mé. We got started right away. I held an ...

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 ...

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

... ; I would love to have taken a photo of the scene, but I didn't dare with tempers still hot and Abidjan soldiers notoriously skittish about having their photo taken. A few years back one overconfident French photo journalist was peremptorily shot dead for ...

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

... eating like I do at the Feast of Tabernacles! Food for thought...   We drove the rest of the way back to Abidjan slaloming around potholes as we went. Again some stretches of road were good and some were quite bad. We finally arrived back about 4: ...

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

Today included a baptism, the last part of camp, and our onward travel to Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire, through which we have to transit to get to Cameroon.   Daniel and I were up and out the hotel door at 6:30 this morning. Mr. Fiaboé, and Pierre Kloutsé ...

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 ...

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 ...

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)

... the law and the spirit of the law, a very important element of understanding.   Around 3:30 we started back for Abidjan. I wanted to have a bite to eat and get everything squared away for tomorrow, which will be a very full and busy day, before ...

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

... ll have the baptismal counseling at that time; hopefully we'll have some baptisms tomorrow afternoon.  The drive back into Abidjan went without particular incident, though it is a colorful trip to say the least.  There were the usual bad passages ...

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 ...

Second day in La Mé
Feb 1, 2007

... our Creator. This was very like the widow's mite, they were giving all they had. Paul, Félix, Marcel and I drove back into Abidjan. On the way they pointed out to me one of the four sites where toxic waste had been illegally dumped a few months back. ...

Travel to La Mé
Jan 31, 2007 (3 photos)

... have the same currency the CFA Franc. I got a little under 500 francs for the dollar and changed enough for my stay in Cote d'Ivoire. Then I bought a pair or plastic sandals (bright purple - a popular color here) to use in the water if I need to baptize ...

Leaving Africa
Feb 6, 2007

... . So I left my passport at the immigration counter as a guarantee that I wouldn't try to sneak into civil-war wracked Cote d'Ivoire and stay illegally in the country (why any Westerner would try to do that I can't imagine, but they seem concerned about ...

Douala to Abidjan
Jan 29, 2007

... time we were instructed to board. There were rather red but happy Russians faces that finally boarded the flight to Cote d'Ivoire. The flight passed without incident, and we arrived in Abidjan only a little late. Immigration and customs went quickly ...

Almost time to go
Jan 14, 2009

... the cleaner air was a nice change from the city and then, things went downhill. We were on the milk run going back to Abidjan and stopped at every little village that lined the road. I counted eight stops before we got back to the main highway, but bananas ...

abidjan
Aug 10, 2007

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Abidjan
Jan 2, 2007

french army stay there. like other countries in west africa, ivory shops everywhere

Wow
Dec 24, 2008

... to the cyber cafe for a few more days, so by then I should have more to tell you. I will add this, however. Traffic in Abidjan is a nightmare and if there is one thing I am really happy about, it is that I left my licence back at the airport in the car ...

Abidjan Adventures
Mar 20, 1999

... Thursday, and it was SO DAMN HOT. We found saw a thermometer around 1PM and it read 41C, which is 105.8F!!!! The humidity in Abidjan is usually about 80-95% because it's on the coast, but for some reason there is no breeze! It was just like a Gainesville ...

Arrival in Abidjan
Mar 16, 1999

... , I could say "Jambo" (hello) and noone assumed that I actually spoke Kiwi Swahili. When I got on the plane from Brussels to Abidjan, the flight attendant said "Bonjour" so I said "Bonjour" to be nice and then she started rattling off a bunch of French! I ...