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Laeti weekends in Bamako, the girl who we sublets rooms are very nice shows. Home is a menagerie: monkey, dog and rooftop Biquet, chickens and pigeons. She guides us gently through the streets of his neighborhood "Lafia" in its market, its neighbors with which tea, finding a mechanic. We then Ysel with our Saturday afternoon sitting on a mattress on the parking lot of a gas station to assist our Mohammed us fix oil leak. In the evening, small exit to the casa, a bar and restaurant run by our friend Laetitia where we find Bilali who comes from St Brieuc. We do a small tour in Djembe, the box area but completely punctured we go to bed.
On Sunday, February 28, we go to the gas station attendant with Mohammed always a concern for repair of injectors which caller as soon as the truck ... retrograde. In the streets of Bamako, it is not easy to manage ... The concern is really a problem adjusting ... it makes fun of us .... Then, the entire team from downtown. ... Small craft market, internet session, potted mango juice ... we say goodbye to Bilal for the next morning we hit the road with Ysel. Last little restaurant with Greta and Yvon; it rains on ... Bamako
Monday, March 1
We will resume the road to two. The truck is empty but we organize quickly.
aim of our day: reaching the border of Burkina Faso. Still many traditional villages, the soil is dry ...
We arrive at the border late in the day. We pay the visa arivons police and customs. Again, we are asked to pay for the vehicle. Negotiation with the officer, then with the head of customs. He made a gesture of his pocket to help pay the pass and invites us to dinner and sleep position. We were received by the team like royalty! Burkinabe beers, chicken sauce or flamed, great political and social conversation ... we spend a wonderful evening full of encounters and a bit tipsy ...
We set the tent on the square outside the entrance of the customs post ...
photo session the next day with the head of Frederick Customs and his deputy, and we take the road towards Bobo-Dioulasso: Burkina live!!
The road is beautiful, everything is green and lush! he must be careful to attack bees ... wasps. After slowing to a pseudo toll, she stormed into the truck, forcing us to run out. Review of the attack: each do our sting and the intervention of two roads that tell us to leave in a hurry!
We stop at the tavern for a swim in a river with a student guide that we took hitchhiking. It feels good!
We arrive at night in Ouagadougou, it is never ideal, but we find a very nice hostel where we spend the best night's sleep since we left!
Meeting Wednesday, March 3 at breakfast with a couple Ivorian who works in an NGO for the liberation of African women: again, very interesting.
the road again excited because we feel Arrival in Togo
Lunch near ... near a traditional village, one resident is welcome us with perhaps the leader of the village ... we leave our last food here because life is very hard for them ... We are coming close
the Togolese border. ... Unfortunately the last military outpost, we are told that the Togolese border is closed until Friday, March 5 at 18h because of the election ... it tells us a hotel, not too expensive but not top, it's the least we can say .... In fact
Friday, the border will reopen on Saturday morning ... Cink City where we are not a lot of distractions ...
We spend Thursday evening with Michael, the chief of police, Jacques boss Bamako hotel where we stayed, and surveyor of the city. We taste the sauce to the bird and drink all the beer!
The next day we'll meet Yakéou, a truck driver who had an accident and must come down to Lome. It will therefore make the journey with us until Kpalime.
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