Country Info
- Ouagadougou
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 12,272,289
- Population
- BF
- Country Code
Burkina Faso Slideshow
Burkina Faso
Travel Blogs from Burkina Faso
Ouahigouya, January 12, 2009 - Monday
... fine. The only hitch is that he isn’t offering to take you there by car. After all, proportionally, very few people in Burkina Faso possess their own rides on four wheels. What he’s offering is a ride on his bike, insterad. And that ...
Banfora, December 25, 2008 - Thursday
I liked it in Banfora. Some things didn't run like well-oiled, like breakfast this morning, for example, but was it so important? Not really, I’d say. Yes, I had ordered the breakfast the night before. And yes, they had promised it would be there ...
Bobo-Dioulasso, December 25, 2008 - Thursday
... other streets, Avenue de la Liberté and Avenue du Gouverneur Binger, hardly offered anything other than what I had already seen in Burkina Faso. It meant many colourful characters and a continuous outdoors market, but that about wrapped it up. Well, yes, ...
Bobo-Dioulasso, December 26, 2008 - Friday
... , started demanding „authorisation“. Again. Now, I was familiar with the fact that not so long ago many things in Burkina Faso had been off limits to cameras. Some of them had been relatively easy to understand. Burkina was not an exception in ...
Hands up who's heard of...
Burkina Faso. Arrived here after the smoothest, most punctual journey yet taken sub-sahara. And in supposedly one of the poorest countries in the world. We (me and Pete) headed for the country's second city, Bobo Dialasso (this country seems to ...
Ouagadougou, January 16, 2009 - Friday
The ride back to Ouaga was as uneventful as they come. Arno and I spent it chatting a bit, nodding off a bit every now and then, and then chatting again. He was a bit stiff, but basically quite a nice guy. His journey had just started. And I was ending ...
A grand meeting of some sort
Le destin fait de drôles de choses. Et des choses moins drôle comme Lise Dion. Ok on a compris t'es grosse. Arrête de manger autant de pain. En continuant mon épopée mon dernier 15$, j'ai réussi un tour de force incroyable en ne dépensant pas un ...
Ouagadougou
I had only heard good things about Burkina-Faso and the town of Bobo-Dioulasso and must say I was glad to be leaving Mali, as you soon feel like a walking ATM machine with everyone trying to make a withdrawal. After a nocturnal bus ride, we arrived at ...
We leave Mali and travel through Burkina Faso
... 's sleep - differences of opinion on how much fan, and some mosquito action, and battery charging. Thursday 1 Feb Ouahigouya - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Out before 7. Decline a lift into town, as we need a bit of exercise, but find the 1.5kms a pretty ...
Le pays Dogon
Hey! Voici quelques rapides nouvelles en provenance du Mali où je rentre du Pays Dogon, en partance pour Tombouctou en bateau... Le pays Dogon, c'était vraiment sympa mais comme à mon habitude, il m'est arrivé de drôles d'aventures! En arivant ...
Mali Boat trip and New Years!!
... of a dry evening - booo...) After leaving Segou and bush camping along the way we made our way towards the border with Burkina faso - with our destination for New Year likely to be around Bobo-Dioulasso. We only stopped at a few small villages before ...
On the way back
Tombouctou-Douentza-Mopti-Koro-Ouahigouya-Ouagadougou-Bolgatanga-Kumasi-Accra Crazy, crazy trip! Breakdowns, liars, chuckholes, delays, closed customs, thunderstorms etc. Don't know how I made it to the airport in ...
Old mosque (Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso)
... mosque, like the larger one in Djenne is only about a century old, symbolizing a peak in this established religious faith. Burkina Faso, like elsewhere in West Africa, clings to tribal beliefs, mixing them in with their Muslim or Christian learned ...
Biblical rains and mopeds dont mix
Banfora is a very scenic, sleepy sort of place. We hired bicycles to visit Tengrela lake, the purpose of which was 1)novelty of bikes; 2)pretty lake... we were pleasantly surprised when there was; 3)free boat trip across the lake and 4)a hippo ...
We heart the sacred crocodiles
So we are in the capital city of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou (say it out loud - right now, its so pleasing!). The city has the most; rootin', tootin', pollutin' cars I have ever seen and despite the relatively good road system here, there are mini ...
Waggadooguu???
Ok however you spell it!! Into Burkina Faso one of the poorest countries, only a short stay here. But had many different views of life, saw a man on a push bike with 4 chickens (alive) dangling form his handle ...
Border - Ouga
... hotel was in fact a brothel, ascertain that the 'cooks' were in fact prostitutes, have drinks with the lieutenant colonel of the Burkina Faso national army training headquarters twice (the village lives in awe/fear of him, he never has to pay for his ...
More sacred things need chicken
... life. We spent 1 night in another brothel with Rastitutes (male Rastafarian prostitutes), then moved to a much nicer place. Burkina Faso is a place that really feels like its going somewhere,unfortunately it means all the roads are being torn up to ...
Burkina Faso land of queues, roads and bins
... guys we met earlier in the week were also stranded and also heading to Koro (last stop in Mali before heading onto Burkina Faso – B.F). After much haggling we managed to negotiate the private charter of a 4x4 to Koro, from there we could get ...
Lobi Country
... , mango trees, mosques, traffic. Later I learn that a lot of the Northern rebels from Cote D'Ivoire are based in this part of Burkina, and things begin to make a bit more sense. Banfora: arrived at night, saw nothing but dust and car-parts. Found a ...
13 Stripes...
My reaction to it surprised me. I didn't understand it at first. There it was in the distance staring at me, like a friend's outstretched arms welcoming me home. My heart actually skipped a beat and I just couldn't stop ...
Burkina Faso, November 21 - 23, 2007
... world's fourth poorest nation to its third poorest. From what I can tell, there's not much difference between #3 and #4. Burkina Faso was mostly a transit country for us, one we would be in for only three days. Our initial plans to stay ...
Harvest Festival
The first Market day in October is the Kobine festival in Lawra, 20km north of Jirapa. We were taken to the festival by a couple of colleagues - one of whom, Samuel, lives there and gave us a guided tour of the place. This celebration of the ...
Nazinga à Ouagadougou
... 'jour à Ouaga, et le chauffeur de taxi. Mauvaise nouvelle pour Jacques qui doit rentrer demain précipitamment à Ventabren par Air Burkina pour quelques jours à cause d’un décès dans sa famille. Nous lui offrons toute notre sympathie. ...
We wouldn't give a Ouaga for anywhere else
... lighting up the sky. We ended up drenched in a quite expensive hotel and revelled in the luxury for the night. Been in Burkina Faso for a week and a half now, and have found it to be a most agreeable place. People are friendly and pleasent ...