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Буркина
... 1072;ть). Вообщ 77;м кэмпе 88;, котор 99;м может поеха 90;ь очень медле 85;но, но куда угодн 86;. От ...
Up in Burkina
... the country, we reached the city Ouahigouya. This would be the last city before leaving the country and we knew we were supposed to buy kola nuts before the border. So in the city market we went in search of the nuts. The problem though, was that we had no clue about the name of the nut in french and we weren't sure how they looked. So we basically jumped in and hoped for the best. The vendors in the stalls tried to help us and pointed us toward the correct area of the ...
Ouagadougou, January 17, 2009 - Saturday
... my side. I guess I had by now grown tired of all those bonjours and not so subtle attempts on the side of too many people to wheedle whatever they could out of me. Therefore this uninvited character pretty much failed to amuse me. So much so that I never even listened to his blabbering. I hardly bothered to understand what this particular one had in mind. Instead, never sparing him a second glance, I merely kept waving him off without a word. I hoped it would do the trick and that he ...
Ouagadougou, January 13, 2009 - Tuesday
... us amounted to almost as much of a miracle as it would have been had we seen the starship „Enterprise" with captain Picard at the helm land on the semi-desert Sahel plane along the road. I mean, when I remembered what kind of buses I had taken, particularly in Mali, a thought that you might at some point see a traffic controller in any of them would probably provoke just a burst of laughter.
But on second thought, we were fully aware that Burkinabe bus transport ...
Ouagado do do _ push pineapples from the tree
Okay the title isn;t very imaginative but it is difficult when the humidity is so high you can;t think. I think its been about 12 days since the last blog and I;ve travelled the length of Ghana and we have been in Burkina Faso for the last few days. Our last port of call In Ghana was the biggest national park in West Africa where I went on yet another fruitless jeep safari. I;m worse than one of Pavlov;s dogs cause I never never learn. Again I saw masses of antelope ...