Burkina Faso

CG found a lovely driver to Diebougou were we spent the night at 'Le Relais' then we walked a kilometre with our packs on to the bus station to get a bus to Bobo Dioulasso . While we were having breakfast in the street stall, we met two Germans who were on the Ouagadougou bus but heading for Boromo, they were talking to us and while they were talking their bus took off and they went running after it and fortunately they caught it. We got our bus to Bobo but there were no seats, but there was a lovely lady who was the Headmistress of a primary school said that I could sit on her knee.

We got to Bobo Dioulasso we found a restaurant to dump our stuff and took it in turns to go to see the mosque. We got lots of hassle while CG and I were looking at the mosque there was a man following us saying you have to pay me 1,000CFA each for looking and taking photos of the mosque but he wasn't anyone official, but CG went off in Japanese at him and he didn't understand and left us alone!!!
Karfiguela Falls video

Then we got a bus to Banfora and stayed the night at a lovely hotel Hotel de la Comoe with Fatima a little girl of 6 who was the owners daughter. The next day Maddy hired a car with another lovely driver called Ima we went to the domes of Fabedougou they were nice but we didn't want a tour; we went onto the most gorgeous falls, you have ever seen it was so cool, Karfiguela Falls. We had a picnic then we went down to the bottom where I swam and rock climbed at the side of the waterfall. We visited a few villages with Ima and sugar cane plantations. Maddy & I got a dug out canoe to go looking for hippopotamus's but we didn't see any close up.

Kids chasing our taxi near Banfora

The next day we went to Ouagadougou for the night; we went to the bronze market where I bought presents for family then we went to lunch with a lovely guy called Issaka and his family, Issaka is the President of the Burkina Chamber of Commerce and a friend of CG's. In the afternoon we got a bus to Fada N'Gourma and arrived late at 'La Belle Etoile'.

Parade on our first day in Ouagadougou 29-12-07


DVD of Burkina Faso photos - 26th December to 31st December