Ouagadougou Hotels - Reviews and Rates

August 29, 2009 Today is my last day in Ho. Well, my last day until the 16th, when I will possibly come back for communal labor day before my Septemb** 17 flight back to Boston. So, sentiments are kind of strange: Joy and Devlyn and some oth** CBO memb**s w**e supposed to meet us at Peede's last night, but a large and imposing thund** storm kept...

I will skip ahead at this point in time, as most of you have noticed that I am updating approximately two weeks behind schedule :) ? Post-Paga, I worked a full week in communities locally. We screened so many people and as we neared the end of the week it was also the end of the time in Tamale for most of the volunteers here. Thursday night was ...

The road on both sides of the Mali-Burkina Faso border was a rather rough one through a subsistence farming area with few true settlements and an especially prevalent "middle of nowhere" feel. We exited the Malian border post into a wide no-man's land strip before the Burkina entry post, which we arrived at just before dusk near its official clo...

Dream Rating:   ; ; ; 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 first stop was the Ghanaian Embassy to get visas. Our campground was at a nice hotel complex behind a truck parking lot some dista...

Monday 29th January ***** Riv** to Mopti and Sevare Aft** arriving back in Mopti, we decide we'll stay in Sevare (12kms away) as Lonely Planet says it is the transport hub, as well as the fact we want to try Mac's Refuge, which reads v**y well. In keeping with our new-found policy of taking the easy (but more expensive) way, we get a taxi. Manag...

Burkina Faso is so poor. People are nice but there is nothing much. We arrived late in Ouhagouya, fixed the exhaust for the second time during a serious sand storm, and hopefully found a very nice hotel to dust off and eat well. then we headed to Ouaga, making an attempt to go to a museum, but it was closed. So we just continued towards Benin Re...