At time of departure from Accra we had planned to visit four countries: Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali, or…
Yearly Archives: 2012
Land Rover Laundry Day
We passed into Burkina Faso from Benin on a Wednesday afternoon. Burkina is a land-locked country in the Sahel…
Tata Somba in Two Countries
Today we went out from Nattatingou in northern Benin on a real overlanding adventure. The object was the amazing residential…
African Print Fabric
Wax print is the typical fabric of west Africa. We know it in various forms in Ghana. This traditional brightly…
Living out of the Land Rover
So how do we get everything in the Land Rover? Laura chimes in with her comments on “overlandingâ€. It’s one…
Camping Wild in Burkina
With the exception of Pendjari Park in Benin, virtually all of our camping thus far has been within the…
Pendjari Safari
Benin has a couple of large national parks in the north and the Parc Pendjari provided our last adventure…
Abomey
Abomey is the historic heart of Benin, it is where the Dahomey Kings reigned for 4 centuries from the early…
Porto Novo
Time in Cotonou was dedicated to adminstrative things, the mechanical work, banking, shopping. The city is a bit manic, with…
First Maintenance sur la route.
When we left Lome we noticed the second battery was not charging correctly. Â Â It was only when we arrived in…