Chez Tatayi Niamey

Et un pays de plus. Me voici donc au *****. La capital est des plus mod**ne. Il y a meme des gratte ciel (grace a l argent de l uranium). comme toute capitale je reste un peu pour faire les visas. Je suis en train de faire le visa d'entente qui p**met de faire 5 pays pour le prix d un visa. Tous les pays africains devraient adopt** ce systeme, car les visas en afrique coutent vraiment trop ch**.

... he had already booked a trip aith a guide for the next day so we went in a canoe up the riv** looking for hippos: th**e was a 7 ton hippo just chillin!! we paddled away in a hurry because they are mean and as mentioned before, huge. aft**ward; we went to the market, ate senegalese food, ie couscous, and got the kidnapped ...

... oveurdosais de ces grosses villes et de leurs pots d'échappement fumant mon oxygène. Ici, c'est un village géant. L'Afrique est magique, une grande famille: mon ami rencontré au Bénin, Chocho, m'avais donné l'adresse de sa famille ici et c'est avec une grande joie qu'ils m'ont ouv**t la porte de leur maison. Que du bonheur pour moi, je suis épuisé par l'usure de la route, mais toutes ces rencontres sont m**veilleuses et me p**mettent de tenir bon sur le chemin de la VIE...

... while th**e may be some p**secutions against Christianity, it is not to such a great extent that has hind**ed our ministry. We have 3 ministry cent**s located throughout the country, and we are about to open a 4th. The largest and most fruitful of these cent**s is in Maradi. The largest tribal population in ***** is Hausa, so the mat**ials we work with are mostly French (the official language) and Hausa. Howev**, we have begun to work in Zarma as well.

... states, with shows I recognise, like CSI and Sup**natural! The strangest/littlest things can make the most enormous diff**ence way out h**e in the middle of nowh**e. Being h**e has really highlighted to me that, whilst Parakou is essentially Benin's 3rd city, it really is a bit of a bush town. For me, it's not really about the restaurants or the shops h**e, although they clearly demonstrate that Niamey is a big city, it's about attitude. In Parakou I can't get away with walking ...

... and that camels haul wood on the streets of Niamey, so I should have some new wildlife for you, too. Bob is heading off to the states for a month's vacation, so I'm taking advantage and heading up to help out in the SIM office th**e and see what life is like in a West African country without zemidjans - who knew that was even possible?! But before all that I've got to survive an 11 hour bus trip in ridiculous humidity and without ...

... with precise elegant dext**ity up to the first knuckle into h** right nostril. Proceeding to drill then excavate then drill some more, h** fing** hit a snag and froze while h** facial composure remained oblivious to all the action occurring between us. Pouted lips parted, fing** half buried she whisp**ed only for me to hear. "I want to make love to you tonight". Up till now I'd been staring wide eyed for a bit too long and needed to blink. One blink, two blinks and the ...

... unicorns. I have done some research on giraffes so if anyone wants to know any int**esting facts let me know. In the gran marche we passed a booth that was selling all these scented wood chips and they smelled amazing. We figured out that it was made into incense, but th**e w**e all these tiny bottles and it appeared to us that you could get p**fume made. So, Susannah through a mixture of Haussa and French had the man mix all these chips in a bucket and add all ...

... I found the sand litt**ed with brittle white shells, left ov** from the times when the sahara had riv**beds. 2 or so days of this and then we arrived in Diroku in the middle of the night, no electricity, no hotel, no idea whatsoev**. Was introduced to someones 'broth**' who was part of the military escort, next thing I knew was clamb**ing into the back of the jeep with the armed patrol and being whisked through the black streets of this little ...

... him through the back window, and he waves and smiles as though saying goodbye to a long-lost friend. Our new guide who looks like a little hip hopp** in baggy pants and a backwards baseball cap takes us in some more circles (or at least, that's what it seems like). We get out and walk a bit and watch guide #2 climb to the tip-tops of trees to look for the long-legged animals. I take pictures of some giraffe footprints just in case we nev** manage to find the actual flesh and ...