Campement de Thialy
Travel Blogs from Kompienga
Pendjari Park
Transportation: 2 hour drive from Natitingou to Tanguieta
(3 days)
Parc National de la Pendjari (Pendjari National Park): Located in the NW corner of Benin inside the Penjari river loop. Over 1200 acres of partially wooded savanna. Birds, reptiles, mammals (elephants, lions etc.). Observation decks to ...
The Indigenous Somba
Natitingou (1 day)
Tata Somba and the Falls of Tanougou are 1-2 hour outside of the town
Tata Somba= a mud fortress, designed to protect families and livestock from invaders such as slavers and neighboring tribes.
Somba people: their lifestyle has been hardly affected by 'the modern world' as they have ...
The Togo Expeditionary Party
I remember it in flashes each time I close my eyes. I can see the other motorcycle coming towards me. Ahead the road curves to the left at the base of the hill. There is a cluster of stones and loose gravel before the blacktop drops off steeply four or five feet to the rocks and sand below. As I enter the turn, I know that my steering is off. I need to go further left, and instead of pulling hard, knowing it would drive us into the pavement, I hit the brakes ...
Ride Natty Ride
... November to February) and which prevented me from seeing this landscape in its full glory. They also make for very cold nights; I rarely sleep straight through these days for want of a cover some time around 4am (when the real cold kicks in).
Nati is not a place about which much can be written, except that in the first 24 hours of being here, there were four power cuts. This region really does struggle in this ...
Wie lebt sich's so in Burkina Faso?
Es ist uns heute sehr schwer gefallen Benin zu verlassen. Dies lag nicht in erster Linie an dem uns ans Herzen gewachsene Land, sondern vor allem an der etwas schwierigen Verkehrsinfrastruktur… Wir waren zwar bereits um 06:20 Uhr (es war noch dunkel) an der Stelle in Natitingou, wo die Sammeltaxis Richtung Norden losfahren. Vollständig befüllt (6 Passagiere und 1 Fahrer in einem normalen PKW) und abfahrbereit waren wir jedoch erst kurz vor 7 Uhr. Dann ging es aber ...