I only travelled through Burkina briefly, staying in Ouagadougou for a few days. I was on my way from Mali, where I was living, to Ghana for vacation. The landscape, language and food were much like Mali, but I must say I found Malians much nicer. In Ouagadougou I couldn’t walk ten feet down the road without having a “tourist leech” attach to me. No I don’t want a guide. No I don’t want a hotel. No I don’t want to go to your brother’s shop. And then, the vultures. Not a metaphor. Real vultures. EVERYWHERE. There are millions of them perched on every building and lamppost all over the city. I feel bad saying such negative things about a place I visited so briefly, but I would hesitate to go again. Nothing (except the tourist leeches) was awful, but nothing was really great, either.