Desert Storm off

Sunday morning, after settling down for another long wait, we got word that there was a truck leaving for Ouahigouya toute-suite. Of course we weren't packed or anything so everything was flung in bags and the truck had to wait. The road was V bumpy and the truck took 7 hours to cover 100 kms, including numerous control stops, and a 2.5 hour wait at the douanes , during which Jan blew a fuse, donned her rucksac and stormed off over the hill into the desert, having announced she was going to walk - Reappeared 25 mins later.
Eventually crossed and reached Ouahigouya early evening, found cheap beers, clean hotel room with mossy nets + clean shower en-suite, and the best meal we had had since Dakar, and all quite cheap too.

It wasn't until we left Mali that we realised what a hard, poor, backward country it really is, and v poor value for money. (Eds note - Mali made Burkina Faso seem luxurious and cheap!).

Several huge diarrhoea attackes during the night and reduced to tearing pages from a book as bog roll had run out!Read more