Showing posts with label Burkina Faso. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burkina Faso. Show all posts

08 April 2011

First run in Burkina Faso: Fada N'Gourma

The map is here ... it was a distance of 3.282 miles or 5.282 km in a little less than a half hour. The run was last week and I started about 7 in the morning. Lots of people looking at the white guy running. All kinds of people out at that time - probably half were kids going to school.

I started and ended at the Hotel Panache, and ran as far as the air strip south of town. Here's a map:




I did another run from the safari - I'll try to map that one out as well.

23 March 2011

Burkina Faso

This Friday I am taking a trip to West Africa, to Burkina Faso. My niece is in the Peace Corps there and I will be staying with her.

I'm pretty excited about it. I haven't been there before, and it looks like we're doing a side trip to Mali.A good friend of mine lives in Bamako and we're hoping to meet up while I'm there ...