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This is our last day in West Africa after three months here and five months travelling overall since the Asian Games. So, while ...

» Signing off from West Africa
This is our last day in West Africa after three months here and five months travelling overall since the Asian Games. So, while waiting for our 3am flight, some thoughts... The first two months in Arabia and Morocco were really enjoyable. Yemen was jus

» A long overdue update

Internet has been pretty ordinary lately, so my apologies for no recent updates, and for the brevity of this one.

Wendy and I are ...

» The Ghana Coast

There's not so much to report of our recent travels. We've spent most of the last week or so in Cape Coast, Elmina and ...

» Accra life

Nothing terribly exciting to report from the last few days, but we've been enjoying ourselves here in Accra, the Ghanian capital. With three-part road ...

» Onto Ghana

After two-and-a-half months in French-speaking countries in north and west Africa, we're now happy to be in English-speaking Ghana, which is nice not only ...

» The Gorom-Gorom Thursday market

After a couple of days eating lasagne and doing other like things in Ouaga that you can't do in West Africa outside of major ...

» African elephants

Yesterday was probably the best day we've had in West Africa. We spent some of the morning and pretty much the entire afternoon watching ...

» An actual real forest in West Africa

Greenery rocks. Especially if you haven't seen any lately, and even more so if you didn't even know you were about to see it...

» A village mask festival

Mali was a pretty tough experience for us, more than we'd expected. Though it's a very poor country, it's also seen as the 'jewel' ...

» Slow boat up the Niger

One more Mali 'catch-up' post before getting to Burkina Faso and more recent events...

After leaving Dogon Country, we took a public motor boat ...

» Slow boat up the Niger
One more Mali ‘catch-up’ post before getting to Burkina Faso and more recent events… After leaving Dogon Country, we took a public motor boat up the Niger River to Timbuktu. Because it’s the dry season, the river levels are low and the boats ge

» Dogon Country

Dogon Country has probably been the highlight of West Africa so far. We met a bunch of cool travellers in Djenne and were lucky ...

» Dogon Country
Dogon Country has probably been the highlight of West Africa so far. We met a bunch of cool travellers in Djenne and were lucky enough to bump into most of them again in Bandiagarra for our three-night trek into Dogon Country. There were seven of us in

» Djenne - a mosque and a market

Well, it's been so long since I wrote an entry that I hardly know where to start. Internet access is both expensive and elusive ...

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