Soooo Sick; Bobo-Dioulassou, Burkina Faso
Monika felt slightly strange, she was not really enthusiastic to continue our trip.
Monika felt slightly strange, she was not really enthusiastic to continue our trip.
2 days ago we reached our 1st waypoint on our way back 2 Swizzyland. We reached Bobo Dioulassou in Burkina Faso. Some 400 km west of Ouaga – very important to state: Bobo lies on the direct route to Laufenburg. 2 reach this important town it nearly took us 7 weeks and more than 5000…
Currently we’re at Lake Bosomtwe in Central Ghana. We recover from the nice roads and the high costs in Ivory Coast. Well, our mistake. 20 years after we left the West African paradise of Côte d’Ivoire we had 2 c it. 4 security reasons and on Monika’s continuous insistence, we just visited a little part…
Currently we’re sitting on a terrace right at the sea in the west of Ghana. It’s Peter’s and Teresa’s home, our good old friends from Lesotho. The perfect place to recover from beach life. Nevertheless, after all these stress situations and incredible dangers in the mountains of Togo and Ghana we had had to move…
2 days ago we reached Akosombo in Ghana. There’s a small hotel along the Volta River just below the dam, which was supposed to produce electricity 4 half of West Africa. Of course this is the place 2 have some rest after the adventures of Benin beach life, crossing the whole Republic of Togo and…
After all dangers in Togo, leaving the country and entering Ghana was not as easy as we thought it would be.
On to Lomé. Here we discovered some interesting issues.
We’re in Abomey, Central Benin. After some really nice driving thru Benin’s world famous potholes we reached the capital of the local royalties on 6th August 2014. Invited or not, we had to visit the king. Unfortunately he was busy in local conflict management between the MoRSPGAH (Ministry of Road Safety, Population Growth and Animal…
It’s 1st of August, it’s time to say goodbye to Ouaga; we have left our house owner with his house, our employees without our employment and our friends ’n’ colleagues without us. Nevertheless we start our trip back to Laufenburg. Somehow we already started the evening before no longer being coal shippers in the coal…
In Porto Novo, the proud capital of Benin we went on a discovery tour. There are some beautiful colonial buildings occupied by all kind of Government institutions.