Le Karite Bleu
Travel Blogs from Ouagadougou
Look out, 'The Lonely Liar' was actually right!
... and came looking for us and a couple of our friends to have our promised tour of his village. We asked how much it would cost, and straight away he said no payment. So off we went with Abdul, a 19 year old, friendly Burkinabe local, who was teaching himself English, and thought that it would be good to take us into his little village.
As we entered Abdul's village, we were greeted with the typical West African handshake (a side five, followed by a hand shake and a ...
Буркина
... 1073; 80;лся свет. Надею 89;ь в отеле генер 72;тор работ 72;ет. Столи 94;а Бурки 85;а Фасо потря 89;ла ...
This is all bizarrely slightly French isn’t
... out to me that the Foreign and Commenwealth Office now disadvises travel to pretty much all touristy bits of Mali because of the threat of kidnapping by Al-Qaeda (now this blog will be read by someone at GCHQ…) I’ve decided to skip Mali; partly for this reason.
· I then put my foot in a sewer on the way back from the German medics’ student hostel (it was dark) and did two of my toes in. Bruising, blood and ...
We heart the sacred crocodiles
... visa admin at the Ghana embassy I thought it might be a good idea to pop into UNESCO to see what cultural programmes they had running, as was advertised outside. However, after some bad french it seems more likely that the manager thought we were workers from a foreign agency or embassy and we actually tried to hire the conference hall out for some important event. Whoops!!
We spent ...
BURKINA FASO - N’y a pas de problème
... a Malian visa and the embassy was closed till Tuesday morning (Monday was International Women’s Day).
There was no Cameroonian embassy there, so now Mali was my last hope of finding my way back to da’roon without having to go to *****ia. (According to many websites Mali is supposed to have a Cameroonian embassy but many people advised that due to Malians not requiring a visa for travelling to Cameroon, and vice versa, the embassy does not exist anymore – ...