Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Travel Blogs

Marking time in Ouaga
Dec 18, 2004

Not really too much to say about Ouaga - very dusty, which in combination with exhaust fumes and smoke etc. left a burning sensation in my nose and throat. One of the things that I hadn't realized is that with all the dust in the air kicked up by the ...

Les photos arrivent dans toutes les entrées
Mar 1, 2008

Cherchez et vous trouverez les nouvelles photos à partir de l'entrée 58, en cherchant un peu car on a complété en fonction de celles que l'on avait retrouvées.

Saddle-sore in Ouagadougou
Dec 15, 2004

... after Bobo where I could get email was in Ouagadougou (the thought of trying to transfer the money directly from a bank in Burkina Faso, in French, was too horrible to contemplate ) ... And I couldn't wait around in Bobo any longer otherwise I wouldn't ...

Day 51 - Burkina Faso - Raw Meat in Africa ???
Dec 29, 2008

... and suffer none from it.  Go you iron belly. Back on truck we head out to bush camp.  With Ouagadougou being quite a sprawling town we were driving a little longer than others anticipated.  We even passed the other truck parked up ...

Ougadougou - On the Road
Nov 16, 2006

Map pin entry.

Ougadougou - On the Road
Nov 5, 2006

Just marking a map pinpoint.

Burkina Faso's Story
Apr 30, 2009 (2 photos)

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso provided another surprise - another transit country which proved quite fun. There was a couple of days in the capital Ouagadougou to obtain Ghana visa, where many choose to splurge on a hotel room whilst the others put up their ...

Happy Crimbo!!
Dec 28, 2009

... getting hotter ........from the cool breezy Coastal temperature in the south we were now rapidly heading towards dusty and arid Burkina Faso.........(and further past that ....the Sahara Desert of Mali!)  It wasnt gonna get any cooler for a long ...

Day 55 - Ghana - Bush Camp 2 - Donkey Lions
Jan 2, 2009

... trying to plait it.    Waving goodbye we headed off to the boarder, a few hours drive away.  Exiting Burkina Faso was painless and the short 5 min drive through no mans land equally so.  Arriving at the Ghana boarder we ...

Au pays des controles
Nov 25, 2008 (4 photos)

... . Bye bye les amis, je vous ferai une lettre d'invitation pour monter votre dossier de demande de visa Francais! L'entrée au Burkina Faso s'est fait comme on me l'avait prédit: avec un paquet de contrôles en tous genres, polices, douanes, gendarmerie, ...

Ouagadougou
Feb 22, 2007 (17 photos)

... exhaustion and dehydration. Our time in Banfora drew to an end and we bus-ed it to the capital of Burkina-Faso with its cool name Ouagadougou. Here the plan was to attend the pan African film festival called Fespaco. Fifteen euros for an all film pass ...

On a trouvé Babacar! (pour Maxence)
Mar 4, 2008 (10 photos)

Nous avons quitté le pays Dogon et ses très grands sorciers. A Ouagadougou, nous avons trouvé Babacar et son papa Gaoussou, qui n'a plus mal au ventre, grâce aux remèdes que Papy lui avait donné. Nous avons emmené Babacar à ...

Burkina Faso
Jun 22, 2005

Was doing an internship there for 2 months...

Day 22 July 22 Ouagadougou to Laonga to Zinaire to
Jul 22, 2009 (4 photos)

The Moulin Rouge's only similarity to Paris was the name and the lit up "moulin" that was in front of the entrance. They lacked many items on their menu so we were a bit disappointed.  We ordered three non-pork pizzas for supper and shared them. We ...

And again
Jan 29, 2009 (8 photos)

 ...um individuo com muita massa me chamou para a sua casa, para me servir uma refeicao generosa e tentar perceber tambem ele o que se passava. Ao principio nao gostei dele, nem um bocadinho. Foi o almoco de Tabaski, a festa dos muculmanos dois meses ...

L'inimaginable devient possible!
Feb 26, 2008 (2 photos)

... enfilons (façon puzzle) dans la voiture C'est parti pour 475 kms de pistes infernales et enfin goudron sur le Burkina Transpirants, brinquebalants, sans incidents mais endoloris, nous arrivons sains et saufs !!! L'entree au Burkina nous enchante, route ...

Elso piheno...
Dec 20, 2004 (5 photos)

Magat a Ghana - Burkina Faso hatart nem kell annyira komolyan venni; inkabb csak maga a sorompo, egy haziko a hivatalnokokkal, a tobbi meg arus bodega. Minden kulonosebb nelkul megkaptuk az 'elhagyta az orszagot' pecsetet es rogton talaltunk is egy 'shared ...

Day 27 July 27 Ouagadougou continued
Jul 27, 2009 (3 photos)

... a women's cooperative where they take raw cotton and turn it into finished product. According to the travel book on Burkina it is very close to Ouagadougou. You need turn left at road marker 163 on the highway south. When we got to that road marker there ...

de Mopti à Ouagadougou
Feb 26, 2008 (2 photos)

... ;notre hôtel est hors la ville et il a une piscine. Nous développerons tout celà dans la journée. Ce matin le petit déj au bord de la piscine nous a réconcilié avec le Burkina.. On part vers le centre ville retrouver nos souvenirs. On vous racontera ce soir.

Ooops
Sep 18, 2005

Only joking

La Maison du Coeur à ouaga
Feb 28, 2008 (7 photos)

... des lieux ensuite pour ne pas perdre de temps le soir. Celà se trouve derrière une boulangerie appelée "La baguette du Faso". En cherchant, nous avons trouvé aussi un excellent restaurant Italien, mais surtout climatisé.... un bonheur lorsqu'il fait 44°C à 13:00 ...

Ouagadougou
Feb 3, 2009

... best bus ever, yes it was clean, a single seat each, arrival and departure on time and even aircon, from Bobo to Burkina Faso's capital Ouaga. Its boiling hot still here, probably nearly 40 degrees in the day time, which basically means you cant really do ...

Ouaga...again!
Jan 29, 2009 (10 photos)

  Durante a noite o comercio inter-fronteirico revela todas as suas facetas cinzento escuro e a oferta de passar pelo lado, as escondidas, nao se fez esperar. Eu preferi, depois da experiencia no Senegal, estar dentro da lei e resolvi voltar a ...

Ouaga
Jan 8, 2009

... ainsi que le palais du sultan. Mais quand je suis arrivé a la gare de Niamey, j ai fait finalement le choix d aller au Burkina Faso. On fera Zinder apres avoir fait le Nigeria. Le systeme de transport au Niger est bon. Ce sont des busqui partent a heure ...

La fin du voyage
Nov 11, 2007

Me voici finalement arrivé à Ouaga, capitale du Burkina après 49 jours de périple. J'ai décidé de ne pas rejoindre Tombouctou, le bateau est trop lent, trop icofortable et trop cher! Et en plus, il n'y a rien a voir à ...

Ouagadougou
Feb 13, 2006 (17 photos)

... into Ghana!" There's no stopping us now (well, apart from the humidity and oppressive heat which is totally zapping our energy...)! Burkina Faso was fun: totally relaxed and quite different from all the other countries so far (well, maybe a bit of the ...

Warren Attends a Ball and Climbs a Mountain
Nov 22, 2007 (30 photos)

... ;    ; ; ;  A   Background   This was our first of two nights in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.  Early in the morning we left the border post where we camped and drove directly to Ouagadougou.  Our ...

a dusty road well traveled
Jan 9, 2008

hello oh dear friends and family....let me share a bit with you by bits and verses.... a dusty road will line the road a dusty road coats your throat a bit of sewer is evident but the neon orange carrots so carefully balanced on her head make ...

Ouagadougou
Jul 28, 2008 (5 photos)

Just a short stop-over in the capital

Burkina Faso, November 21 - 23, 2007
Nov 23, 2007 (25 photos)

... a few.  I left Ouagadougou thinking the city must have restaurants awarded with more Michelin stars than those in Paris. Burkina Faso and Ouagadougou seemed like peaceful enough places to me.  However, at the end of February 2008, about three ...