Niger Travel Blogs

A Magical Carpet Ride through the Sahel
Oct 30, 2004 (13 photos)

... , 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
Mar 12, 2007 (57 photos)

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
Sep 29, 2004 (5 photos)

... 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
Mar 27, 2003 (14 photos)

... 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 time ...

Niamey and the Gentle Giants
Sep 28, 2004 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Boating up the river
Nov 16, 2005 (2 photos)

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 ...

Le pays bonus ou le grand tournant
Nov 23, 2008 (4 photos)

... 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 Sahel semi ...

Niamey
Jan 6, 2009

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
Nov 24, 2008 (6 photos)

... inconnu. Nous descendons traverser, à pied, le Pont Kennedy, seul point de passage permettant de rallier l'autre rive du... FLEUVE NIGER! 3ème plus grand fleuve d'Afrique, c'est la "machine à laver" locale, le coin des blanchisseurs qui lavent les vêtements ...

Day 12: Diré Straits or Siege of the Hippos
Jan 22, 2007 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

another journey
Jun 5, 2007 (10 photos)

... 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 I ...

Day 13: Beer on the Niger
Jan 23, 2007 (5 photos)

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
Jun 29, 2007 (1 photos)

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 ...

Niamey
Mar 13, 2007 (14 photos)

... 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 ...

Visit to the office
Dec 5, 2007 (2 photos)

... 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
Dec 6, 2007 (1 photos)

... 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 this ...

Arrived in Niamey
Dec 2, 2007 (3 photos)

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
Dec 4, 2007 (6 photos)

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 to ...

The ants in the bathroom
Dec 6, 2007 (1 photos)

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 ...

Niger c'est fini
Jan 3, 2005

... , 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 ...

Started from here
Sep 19, 2007

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Beautiful blueberries!
Apr 19, 2009 (1 photos)

Saw a camel today from a taxi where I made the foolish mistake of telling the taxi driver that I was not married. He offered to accept me as one of his four wives (under Muslim law men can have a maximum of four wives). I graciously declined his offer. I ...

West African Journey
Mar 3, 2005

... Faso, and Mali (the 2nd, 4th and 7th poorest countries in the world respectively) and we wanted to share our experience. Niger: After a grueling 11-hour tros tros ride (imagine 20 people in a Windstar, your knees pressing into the seat so hard there ...

Why does Nigeria always cut off the power supply?
Jul 3, 2009

I've been back in Guidan Roumdji for one week now and it feels like I never left...the time in Scotland seemed like a dream but at least I have some books to show for it (although most already read by now. Help!) A big thank you to Kerry for sending me ...

Where it all began!
Jul 7, 1981 (1 photos)

I was an American Peace Corps volunteer in Niamey for two years. I stayed another five years working at the American Embassy in Niamey - non-diplomatic of course.

Rufus is playing!
Aug 1, 2009

It's Saturday morning and I have internet connection! Only because I am in Maradi. The head logistician took our modem away from us because it only works 90% of the time. I handed it over with a heavy heart because I knew it would be weeks before I saw it ...

The weird powers of twins!
Jun 5, 2009 (6 photos)

I was showing my admin assistant a picture of Kerry yesterday and explaining that I was a twin. She asked me if there were any special powers between us. I said not really. She said that here twins are seen as being a bit different and can wish scorpions ...

Saturday in Guidan Roumdji
May 23, 2009 (6 photos)

Unfortunately there is no opportunity to go to Maradi this weekend as some of us have to work! Naturally there was a power cut at about 2 pm (during my siesta) so I chose to go to the office earlier than usual, as we have a generator there which makes the ...

Ramadan
Aug 30, 2009 (10 photos)

... the Butcher, a person who is famous for the meat he sells. The market borders on the river which separates Nigeria from Niger. There were lots of little kids splashing about and a boat service which transports people across the border. There were even more ...

The Hospital Is Open For Business!
May 15, 2009 (6 photos)

Finally, the moment we have all been waiting for and the reason we are here: the hospital (or rather Intensive Care Unit for malnourished children - CRENI in French) is now open. Luckily it is only ten minutes' walk (in beating heat) from the office, so I ...