Bobo - Degoudougou - Koudougou - Ouaga

Back to Bobo, and the finally checked in to the 2palmiers ! We visited the Museum of music, and tried to visit a gallery that was closed and explored the market.

fancy lunch in the cave saint germaine


Bobo also has roundabouts of note

Thoroughly enjoyed sitting with a cold beer after visiting the market, watching the world go by as the market began to close up for the day, watching a food seller opposite pack up her wagon, watching the man roasting meat, listening to music from a nearby clothing boutique (which felt so right for the time and place we went and asked what it was - Ivory Coast's Tiken Jah Fakoly African Revolution.

blurred action shot of chickens hanging from a truck (the truck was full of people standing / sitting on top of whatever the truck was full of)
Cotton - an important export crop - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/africa_burkina_faso_cotton_farmer/html/1.stm



The next day back to Ouaga, but of course not the same route that we took coming.. instead we went via Degoudougou - the road was excellent - discovered that the Prado has an annoying beep when you hit 120km an hour, and a flashing light when you exceed it. On many of the roads we drove on the challenge is staying awake, as they are straight and flat and well maintained!

Then we reached Degoudougou - and a series of diversions that were mind boggling - there is a major road expansion project underway, but its currently a work in progress.

The road was a lot closer to the villages though




granaries? which look scarily like daleks to me..



chicken offering at the base of a tree which had been felled to make way for the road in progress

temporary bridge

the road from Degoudougou to Koudougou took longer than we had anticipated, so we were grumpy and tired, and just stopped briefly for lunch - I think we'll have to go back, its only an hour and a half away, and host Burkinas equivalent of the Edinburgh festival next month.


despite not celebrating halloween it's pumpkin time here too...