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- Niamey
- Capital
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- 10,355,156
- Population
- NE
- Country Code
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Top Hotels in Niamey
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Hotel Gaweye Niamey
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Tenere Hotel Niamey
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Grand Hotel du Niger Niamey
23 reviews
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Hotel Terminus Niamey
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Hotel De La Tapoa Niamey
3 reviews
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Travel Blogs from Niamey, Niger
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A Magical Carpet Ride through the Sahel
This is a top pick! ... 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, ...
Togo and Benin to Niger
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... fiercely 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
... trip 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 ...
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 ...
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
... 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
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
... 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 ...
Niger c'est fini
... 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 ...
Mind. Blown.
... away and there is a myth that the first breast milk is very bad for the baby. The leading contributor to Niger’s shocking infant mortality rate is diarrhea. In December a health volunteer will be moving into the town next to mine ...
Zarmaciine
Greetings in Zarma, the language widely used in Niamey, are very standardized. There's a certain standard of questions you must ask when you greet someone, even just a passerby on the street. The more personally you know someone, it seems, the ...
The End of the First Month
... . These things weighed heavily in my heart, and now they are through. This necessitates a few thank yous: To the people of Niamey, that greet me on the street and ask me how my family is doing. To the flying fox bats that I pass on the ...
Beautiful blueberries!
... 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
... 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 ...
In the Interim...
... a weird cord with me and I couldn't help but recoil. I also think I felt guilty about not being in Niger, where I had committed to being and where my friends were navigating those first difficult days as official volunteers in their new ...
Where it all began!
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. ...
Independence Day
... and it is such a joy and comfort to receive a letter with your news in this foreign place. In case you missed it, here’s my address again: Mackenzie Drutowski, PCV Corps de la Paix B. P. 10537 Niamey, Niger Thanks for your ...
Exhaustion like Leather
A few of my friends work with artisans at the museum who are leather masters. They use an assortment of tools specific to their trade. At any given moment, if you approach the leather maker's stall, he'll have a thin flat metal bar in his ...
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