Country Info
- Niamey
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 10,355,156
- Population
- NE
- Country Code
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Top Hotels in Niger
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Hotel Gaweye Niamey
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Tenere Hotel Niamey
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Grand Hotel du Niger Niamey
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Hotel Terminus Niamey
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Hotel De La Tapoa Niamey
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Travel Blogs from Niger
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A Magical Carpet Ride through the Sahel
This is a top pick! ... , we won't make it to the dunes on this trip, as our security officers won't allow us to go that far northeast into Niger. Bandits. Tuareg Rebels. Al-Quaida. But it is still desert. A sparse landscape dotted by low trees, sand, and the ocassional ...
India Nature: Kutch Backroads, An Essay, part I
This is a top pick! Kutch Backroads An Essay-cum-Trip Report in Four Parts with a Slideshow (click above) Some of my first memories of the world involve insects and a pile of Delawarean autumn leaves. The memories flash quickly in my mind--jumping into a pile of ...
Wandering through the Sahel with nomads
This is a top pick! ... princes, they have all seemed very grounded. The highlight of the trip was our trip into the desert with the nomadic people of Niger known as Wadabi or Bororo. The name means outsider or those left-behind because of all the Peulh tribes in Niger, they ...
Togo and Benin to Niger
This is a top pick! ... We have decided not to travel through Nigeria due to various problems throughout the country, so we are now in Niamey capital of Niger from here we will head straight to Chad, missing out Cameroon. We have sorted visas without much hassle and will spend ...
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 & ...
Niamey and the Gentle Giants
This is a top pick! ... trip as the begging was non-stop; there was no peace from it. All that being said, the experience was incredibe. Niger is truly a wild place. Having fiercely resisted colonialisation, native culture and language has thrived. It was much more difficult to ...
The Village of Nemodin
As I explained earlier, my house was merely one story high and was tattered and cluttered. It was made of red bricks and maple wood. There were only three small and dust caked rooms-the kitchen, my room and my parents' room. My front yard was small and ...
Boating up the river
Miles Travelled: 17550 We're on a pinasse, an oversized canoe with an outboard motor, chugging slowly down the Niger River toward Timbuktu. The journey is quite peaceful, though the pinasse is quite long and narrow and has an uncomfortable tendency to ...
Slow Boating All The Way To Timbuktu
... Timbuktu via the Niger River. With the roof of the pinasse providing shade and the cooling breeze of the river, floating down the Niger was a wonderful change from the oppressive heat of Dogon Country. The first day is the most ambitious as we need to get ...
Apocalin
****AnEpicQuestForDeath?**** Saturday morning, anything better! A day to do whatever I wanted, and today, to top it all off we were going to see the King in Great Creation Town! I hopped off of the small mattress I call a bed and jumped out of the ...
Le pays bonus ou le grand tournant
... à toutes les mauvaises langues qui pensaient (et je suis sûr qu'il y en a) que je n'avancais pas bien vite... Me voilà au Niger, à Niamey, où tout est différent. Je suis parti de la forêt équatoriale et, 27 heures de bus plus tard... me voilà au ...
Niamey
Et un pays de plus. Me voici donc au Niger. La capital est des plus moderne. Il y a meme des gratte ciel (grace a l argent de l uranium). comme toute capitale je reste un peu pour faire les visas. Je suis en train de faire le visa d'entente qui permet de ...
Le village géant
... ' par un camionneur libyen, sans doute saoul. Le 8 novembre 1973, l'arbre mort fut transporté au musée national du Niger, à Niamey et remplacé par une simple sculpture métallique représentant un arbre". Après nous être promenés à travers ...
Day 12: Diré Straits or Siege of the Hippos
... old hour of 8pm. As usual, sleep is instantaneous but at around 4am the need to offload the obligatory 'on the Niger' beer hits me. Unfortunately the distantly glimpsed hippo of the day becomes the potentially lethal grazer of the night and outside our ...
Forest of the Forbidden
The Battle is beginning to unfold in this enormous forest. The atmosphere was gloomy and dark. The Forest was close to being pitch black-villagers fighting the enemy undead trolls were carrying tall torches. The few villagers left were equipped with ...
another journey
... Lisa and I made down to Cotonou a couple of weeks ago. I also wanted to let you all know that I'm heading to Niamey, Niger for a few weeks. So hopefully soon I'll have a whole lot of new stories for you from a whole new country. Raoul tells me ...
Day 13: Beer on the Niger
I meet the day in continuing rude health, despite nocturnal bovine interruptions. Bedecked in Touareg blanket and turban, we set off at 6am and travel in silence as the dawn slowly breaks, warm coffee to hand. ...
TV, a busy office, and being a real tourist
Well, ladies and gents. My first entry actually in Niamey. Weirdly enough, Niger, with it's 40+ degree weather and incredible humidity has been quite refreshing for me. A larger group of Aussies, a bunch of people my own age, church in English, being ...
The Niger River
Our journey down the Niger River was on a cargo boat, perhaps 100ft long. The cargo was a mix of cement bags and food produce, on top of which perhaps 40 people made their homes for the next two days. The boat was constructed using a mixture of steel for ...
Visit to the office
... This is TBL-Niger's third year of operation and they have had an extremely fruitful ministry in a difficult context. Niger is predominantly Muslim country. However, I think that while there may be some persecutions against Christianity, it is ...
Church service
... all the days of our lives. Even when life is tough. It was a great time of fellowship with brothers and sisters in Niger. Many of these people actually came from Togo. The pastor himself was from Togo and felt called by God to plant ...
Arrived in Niamey
I arrived safely to Niamey today and was quite surprised to find the temperature to be quite cool! I guess I expected Niger to be desert hot all the time, but as the director of our ministry in Niger says, "the weather this time around is quite ...
The Training
I'm spending this week in Niger training our accounts officers in our Niger and Chad office on Quickbooks accounting software. This has been a major project for me over the past 3 years...installing, training, and standardizing accounting software ...
The ants in the bathroom
While the hotel I stayed at in Niamey was nice, they didn't clean my room the whole time I was there. So, these weird ant-like insects were getting into my bathroom by the light above the mirror. At first, I was disgusted by it. But I ...
Grand mosque (Niamey, Niger)
The Grande Mosquée is an Islamic mosque in Niamey, Niger. The largest mosque in the city, it is located along Islam Avenue. Funded with money from Libya, the mosque features a minaret with 171 steps from top to bottom ...
Niamey
... it. Still in the museum it just looks like any other tree. Finally saw some bats like in Freetown and checked out the Niger River for a bit of excitement. That night Thomas and I drank beer and fine-tuned a Swedish polar circle camping trip and the ...
Niger c'est fini
... , a city with four lane roads and high rise buildings in which you still have to dodge the camels and goat herders. The Niger river runs right through town, during sunset the air fills with red dust. Fifteen hours by bus to Agadez, an ancient trading ...
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