Niamey, Niger Travel Blogs

A Magical Carpet Ride through the Sahel
Oct 31, 2004 (13 photos)

... the dust, the mud, and the bush on our quest to marvel at the last remaining giraffes in West Africa. After exploring Niamey (the cultural center/museum/zoo is pretty interesting, though the zoo part is VERY depressing - lots of malnourished, on-the- ...

Togo and Benin to Niger
Mar 27, 2003 (14 photos)

... that!! 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 ...

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

... resisted colonialisation, native culture and language has thrived. It was much more difficult to find people who spoke French in Niger. Niamey is a strange city simply because it is smack dab in the middle of nowhere. It is not so unlike Cotonou except ...

Le pays bonus ou le grand tournant
Nov 24, 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)

... 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 les marchés nous décidons ...

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 ...

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)

... planet was rising towards the very hot mark, I was starting to wonder if coming to Niger was such a good idea. But in Niger I was, and specifically Niamey the capital. Here I decided, a day to rest, a day to see the sights and a day to leave. On my day ...

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)

... actually came from Togo.  The pastor himself was from Togo and felt called by God to plant this church in Niamey.  I'm always impressed and humbled by the incredible missionary spirit of African believers.  I have met many who are crossing ...

Arrived in Niamey
Dec 3, 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

... of the building. How I got my passport out of that place without bribing anyone I still don't know to this day. Got to Niamey at night, due to regular stops for prayer. Niamey, a city with four lane roads and high rise buildings in which you still have ...

Started from here
Sep 19, 2007

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Beautiful blueberries!
Apr 19, 2009 (1 photos)

... info about the project I will be working on. I will be based in the village of Guidan Roumji, about 12 hours from Niamey, the capital, and 45 minutes from the district capital of Maradi. MSF will be constructing four CSI (Centre de Securite International - ...

West African Journey
Mar 3, 2005

... and every time there was a police stop you had to climb out the window) we arrived at the Peace Corps Hostel in Niamey, Niger. Besides the fact that it was probably the most disgusting house I have ever stepped foot into, the volunteers were a great ...

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.

5 countries in... and reunited
Dec 22, 2008 (17 photos)

... : so i got to the bus station in cotonou, benin around 6, waited til my bus left at 11, and arrived in Niamey Niger 23 hours later. Luckily it was a deluxe and mostly empty bus; because it was a long trip  (Gas ...