Staying a whole week in Ouagadougou, waiting for our visas to come through was a bit too much so we were looking for an excursions from the capital for a day or two. Reading up online and in guidebooks we came across a village about 30 kilometers outside of the Capital called Bazoulé where people...Read More
Getting into Mali I thought we would drive into a place feeling almost like a war-zone where we would have to be escorted by convoys and have to go through even more police checkpoints than in Mauritania, but that was not the case. Driving through and bush camping here has shown us that most of...Read More
Because of an attack on a UN base close to where we would cross from Mauritania to Mali, it was decided to instead go a safer route further South through Senegal instead. Senegal has a reputation of being one of the most stable countries in West Africa, but when crossing the border at the Senegal...Read More
Riding the World’s longest train was somethinng I had wanted to do ever since watching Palins Travels. What he did though was to go in one of the passenger carts, but I wanted to get the full experience of riding for free on top of the over 2 kilometers of iron ore carts. We had...Read More
As the security situation in Mali had worsened we were told that we would go through Senegal to enter Mali at a different border than originally planned. As it was weekend with embassies not opening before Monday we had a couple of extra days to kill which five of us decided we wanted to spend...Read More
Rarely capitals can be said to be a highlight from visiting a country, but for Nouakchott it could. The city is Africa’s youngest capital with its fifty years, but that does not mean that it is modern with tall buildings etc. The city center itself was pretty much like Nouadibou with just a market, a...Read More
