Burkina Faso travel stories

Ougadougou

http://www.markspark.com/ I took a four hour bus drive to the capital, Ougadougou, sitting next to a fascinating linguistics professor from Holland, who comes every year to Burkina and visits the ...

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Funeral festival (sunday, may 9th)

http://www.markspark.com/ About 10kms further down the dirt road, the village of Sougalodaga was in the middle of "celebrating" the death of an old man. This perhaps happened once or twice a year,...

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Curious kids (sat/sun may 8-9th)

http://www.markspark.com/ Oh my god!! Like a swarm of flies that followed me everywhere -- swarming through holes in the wall, around houses, over walls. Stopping when I did. Just there. F...

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Weekend au village, (saturday, may 8th)

http://www.markspark.com/ I had met Tidiani at the pool in the forest two days earlier and he had implored me not to leave Bobo without witnessing a festival of masks. There was one this coming we...

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Forest swimming (wednesday, may 5th)

http://www.markspark.com/ Yet another excursion from Bobo is a trip into the forest of Genguitte, where you can discover an amazingly beautiful pool of clear water, dappled in sunlight. Kader t...

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