Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is definitely one of my most favorite places in the world. I went to Ouagadougou with friends. We rented motorcycles but ended up having problem after problem with them. Our first day riding involved sitting on the side of the road, near death experiences with a bus and a truck and bridge, sitting on a bench for hours holding little babies from a roadside village where they were trying to fix one bike, getting back to Ouaga, arguing with the bike renters with the help of a Liberian refugee, and landing ourselves mixed up in a bribery scam between the head of the military police and the bike renters.

We made it out and took a bus to Bobo where we boated out onto a lake with angry hippos, swam in a waterfall and saw towns that had been wiped out due to river blindness. One night we ended up at this huge party where they let me announce things even though I didn’t speak any of the local language or French. It was a blast.

It was intense and awesome and beautiful, a grand adventure.

Gosh! It’s in the middle of the darkest Africa. I would like to write my term paper about this country. That’s quite a challenge:)

If you go to sit on the crocodiles, make sure it’s got a chicken in its mouth first!

I love Burkina Faso

I’ve already been in Burkina Faso one year ago but I’d like to go again to this place because I met a lot of nice peoples , so I promised to get back to Burkina Faso !