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RE: Just finished a Niger trip: Info
by mikespencerbown 09 January 2012
A fun country, but better suited now for overlanders going to Burkina or Chad. Happy trails :o)
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RE: Just finished a Niger trip: Info
by mikespencerbown 09 January 2012
Onward travel is difficult: I am taking the bus back to Niamey. The airport is closed, i think.... it looks like a nuetron bomb has wiped-ou…
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RE: Just finished a Niger trip: Info
by mikespencerbown 09 January 2012
5. Sorry... the computer here is very bad... this has taken me more than an hour to post, with many shutdowns... anyhow the numbers for…
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Re: Just finished a Niger trip: Info
by mikespencerbown 09 January 2012
6. you can eat at the tiny local food place across from the closed pillier restaurant, for cheap. The auberge Taguelmoust is open, take…
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Just finished a Niger trip: Info
by mikespencerbown 09 January 2012
I just finished a Niger trip, and am trying to get to Algerian or libya next, but here was the Niger situation: 1. The road in from Mali…
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RE: Mali and ?
by markharf 07 January 2012
You make it sound as if your plans are fixed: you're starting with the Mali tour, then heading elsewhere. I think after a few weeks being…
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Mali and ?
by pksf 06 January 2012
Hi everybody, I'm planning a trip to Mali in a year's time (I know, it's a long way off), and I'm looking for ideas to put together an…
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RE: Morocco to Algeria
by yongalgeria 06 January 2012
Hi Markharf, What recent kidnappings are you referring to? The one in Oct 2011 was not tourists but NGO workers. The last was an Italian…
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RE: Morocco to Algeria
by markharf 05 January 2012
The border is closed, and has been since the war over the Western Sahara, approx. 20 years. You need fresh information, much of which…
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RE: Tlemcen & Oran Trip Report
by Simsy 05 January 2012
Because you are an African nut Kira you HAD a great weekend. If you were a first world citizen with third world experience the weekend…
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Family Accommodation i for the festival on the Niger
by Maiga77 04 January 2012
a host family for the Segou festival on the Niger in 2012 into a family not far from the place tourristique and cites the festival, with…
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RE: The modern Tourist
by aminata 30 December 2011
I love festivals wherever I can find them. The music, people, atmosphere, food, browsing around the market stalls... Womad, Amsterdam…
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RE: Where in Francophone Africa is actually Francophone?
by yurdamnskippy 26 December 2011
Check your history, the areas in sub-Saharan West Africa sought by France are accordingly francophone (with varying degree): Senegal,…
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RE: Intelligent anger management
by MisterSteve 24 December 2011
The phrase ''have no own life'' is very bad English, Dieter. You need to go to English school in Gaza or Damascus or Zimbabwe or Niger…
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RE: Intelligent anger management
by MisterSteve 24 December 2011
If you like Arabs so much you can move to Gaza or Damascus - lovely places. If you like Africans so much you can move to Zimbabwe or Niger…
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RE: Rosso border Fees?
by skunkman44 21 December 2011
The worst officials in West-Africa can be found in Mali, Guinea and Niger...
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FAMILY ACCOMMODATION FOR THE FESTIVAL ON THE NIGER 2012
by Maiga77 15 December 2011
Family accommodation for the festival in Segou on the Niger For you who wants to come to the great festival of West Africa in Segou, we…
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Re: First Tourist in Mogadishu
by mikespencerbown 14 December 2011
Thanks, Ben.... I am in Bamako getting a Niger visa before heading east... the plan is to do Mali, Niger, hope for a visa to Algeria,…
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RE: Getting an Ivory Coast visa in Monrovia
by mikespencerbown 14 December 2011
I asked for it by the proper name, and he still did not have it.... he mumbled something about ecowas countries considering making a common…
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RE: Pigs of Guinea: travel on the Guinea bissau--Guinea frontier
by mikespencerbown 14 December 2011
I am happy that some fellow travellers enjoyed the tale :o) I'm in Bamako now, waiting for a Niger visa before heading east.... I am…
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Re: Pigs of Guinea: travel on the Guinea bissau--Guinea frontier
by Robin_S 12 December 2011
Great reading your update Mike. Even though its now dry eason again I'm averaging one major breakdown every other day travelling in a…
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RE: Nigeria Visa in Cameroon
by Giora 11 December 2011
When I was in Nigeria (2008) I met a Swiss traveler who had managed to get a visa in Cameroon: I think he'd visited consulates in both…
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RE: Western Africa this winter (safe?)
by musiccycles 10 December 2011
My fiance and I did this trip on bicycles last year around the same time. I am also a student studying development and security related…
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RE: Timbuctou
by happymick 06 December 2011
Amandab33, Even though I am currently traveling in S.America I am going Africa to Africa next and I have an IPad so I follow the travel…
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Baobab trees in Africa.
by Simsy 04 December 2011
I am hopefully heading for a trip to southern Africa soon and want to take in a trip to madagascar to see the Lemurs and also those fantasti…
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