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Tears and Loathing in Ghana - Bike or Bus, Not Both
This is the long awaited update of my last days in Ghana before I returned to England for a holiday and to get a new passport.
Hopefully you won’t have to wait so long for my take on Ghana part 2.
Road to Larabanga
Yet more corrugated roads. It is impossible to describe the effect that trying to [...]
Tour de Burkina Faso – My Way
Ouagadougou – Bobo – Banfora – Bobo
Any Which Way
Leaving is always hard. It’s not that I fear the open road. I don’t fear the unknown. On the contrary. That’s why I travel. That’s why I travel by bike. But no matter how much I know I will love the freedom and the new experiences, leaving [...]
Bamako to Ouagadougou (part 4) – And into Burkina Faso
Leaving Mali
Leaving Mali was tougher than I thought. Not due to any particular attachment, although I did enjoy my time there. It was the wind and the rough, corrugated, roads. Mostly the wind though. It tried it’s hardest to blow me right back into Mali, even after I’d got the Burkina Faso entry stamped permanently [...]
Timbuktu Cats
Firstly, Timbuktu is a real place - a dusty town on the edge of the Sahara in Mali.
Timbuktu is a place of legend and many early European explorers through the desert strived (and often died trying) to get to this fabled town. For those who did arrive in Timbuktu, leaving was often harder. Not many [...]
The Great Niger River Boat Trip - Part 4
Day 11: Feb 16th 2010
Warthogs - Broken boat - Hippo encounter - Bush fire – Bat exodus – Uniformed and uninformed – Poacher or American?
A long, hard morning paddle – at least we were paddling and not pushing or dragging, but the wavelets on the river surface were tiresome. With the ripples lapping at [...]
The Great Niger River Boat Trip - Part 3
Day 7: 12th Feb 2010
Ou tu vas comme ca? - Bee island - Frogs and splashes
Nearly a week into the trip, about 100km downstream of Faranah, getting close to the National Park and the number of people we are seeing has diminished – just the occasional onlooker from a riverbank and lone fishing boats. We [...]
Photos of Somoria Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Sanctuary
On day 10 of the Niger River boat trip, we came across a Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Sanctuary.
Here are some photos from our visit…
For more information on chimpanzee rehabiliation and the Sanctuary, visit The Project Primate website
The Great Niger River Boat Trip - Part 2
Day 4: 9th Feb 2010
Quiet morning – shallow maze - near-disaster - crocodile island
Following a quiet morning on the river where progress was slow but steady, the afternoon brought with it a maze of rocks and shallow waters that slowed progress drastically. We would stop paddling and stand up to get a better view downstream, [...]
The Great Niger River Boat Trip - Part 1
Day 1: 6th Feb 2010
Departure – 3 beers – Boh’s helping hand – will we make it to Bamako?
It’s Saturday in Faranah; our boat is built and afloat on the river, our belongings have been wrapped and packaged in plastic bags ready for the trip, we have cycled into town for breakfast and bought [...]
Freetown to Faranah - Bangs, Bees and a Boat
Leaving Freetown
We had arrived in Freetown on the bustling streets of Kissy Road in the East End lined with stalls selling everything from second-hand shoes to fake Sony radios; and had navigated our way through the commercial district centred around the towering cotton tree, down along Congo Road and across the poor shanty district of [...]
