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Category: Africa
Travel and Hospitals – Burkina Faso, Part Two
After my experiences in Banfora, I hoped I wouldn’t end up in another hospital in Burkina Faso. BAH! I ended up in another TWO! Suffice to say it’s not the ideal country to end up in hospital in, should you have a choice. In Bobo-Diolosso I was taken the main hospital there. Far far bigger …
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Hospitals, Travel and Me – Burkina Faso (Part One)
Here’s my final two parts of my hospital experiences. Burkina Faso, and this is where it all happened, I got my first ever serious tropical disease, malaria. I was in Banfora, a large town (but definitely a town) six or so hours south west of the capital Ouagadougou. I remember the lead up – I’d …
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Foto Friday – St Louis, Senegal
The fishing town/island of St Louis in Senegal. Colourful boats, the Atlantic Ocean, life as it is in West Africa.
Planning a Dogon Trek (Mali)
Hi folks. Here’s a post I planned to write weeks ago but my sabbatical has made it hard to get around to it. But finally, here she be! The Dogon Escarpment is an amazing geographical feature in Mali. It needs a few days to be visited at the very least, and it’s pretty much obligatory …
Travel Video – Mali – Mopti to Bamako
Hello folks! Welcome to Monday's travel video. Last week I showed you one from my Dogon Trek. Today's video is from the rest of my time in Mali. So come take a look as I journey north to south from Mopti to Bamako. May the Journey Never End!
Remembering the Dogon Trek, Mali
Hi all. I am planning a post for tips on Dogon Trekking as it seems a few people have been interested by my posts on this amazing place. That should be coming during the next week! For now I will continue on with Saturday’s theme of reminiscing. What follows is my one and only …
Travel Video – Dogon Trek, Mali
In keeping with the Saturday series I've been writing, here's a video - quite a longish one - I compiled of my trek to the Dogon Escarpment. At 28 minutes I think it's the longest travel video I've made. Interestingly I clearly made a mistake with one of the first captions. It says 'Ouigouyah to …
Marching into Mali
Today Mali isn’t really the first place you’d go in West Africa. It’s had militant problems and Islamists controlled part of the country for quite a while before French intervention, but I have been on the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree forum and I see the odd tourist is still going to Mali. It’s quite sad …
Andy's World Journeys 