After 3 weeks we are quite popular in dédougou. now everybody is not just saying hello, they also know our names! embarrasingly we mostly don't know who is talking to us... but now i know nearly all the names of our 18 sweet little children in the orphanage and helene says she knows the 15 girls of the english class. well that is not so much, in t

The pays dogon is a part in the south-west of mali were you can find a lot of still quite original villages along a huge cliff. it is the first tourist attraction of mali (i think) but it seemed still quite untouched. we were driven by 4x4 to the first village and then continued the next 5 days walking from village to village along the beautiful co

Since more than one week we are now in dedougou. a friend (leopold) of a friend(david) of a friend (abu) friendly arranged a small house for us, in a lonesome field in the peripherie of the village. luckily we are close to the dispensary and could rent 3 bikes from one of the helping-associations to get into the center. the house has 3 bedrooms, a

We are nearly two weeks now in ouaga. at least the city is bigger than we thought and there are quite some weird but interesting architectures. we have seen two nice theater pieces and have been twice to the cinema, and spent some evenings in local dancing bars where most of the people are just sitting around doing nothing, while street-kids going

We all agree that the north of ethiopia (means gondar, simien mountains, blue nile falls and lalibela) is probably the most beautiful landscape we have ever seen in our lives! just as half of ethiopia these historical villiages are lying in around 2000m above sea level in the rift valley, a landscape formed by colded lava a few million years ago. n

After having been "muzungu" in kenia and "faranji" in ethiopia, we are now "tuwabu"... that means "white skin" in dioula and that is what the children are always happily screaming when we are crossing and sometimes they are running after us, waiting for a reaction...sometimes we can scare them because some of them are still scared of white people!

By the way, we are back in europe! if you want to see all the written articles, just click "liste complete" on the right and the pictures are under the flags on the left thanks, h.a.m.

So that is ethiopia! to be honest the language is really too difficult to keep it in our minds (it seems close to arabian), exept "salam!" the greeting and "ciao" the goodbye, a rest of the italians who tried to make a colonisation in the beginning of the 20th century but hardly failed...so ethiopia is one of the nearly uncolonised states in africa

Merry christmas joyeux noël fröhliche weihnachten feliz navidad

After 8 hours flight with stop in tschad, we arrived in bamako, (or sauna), it's so hot and humid here, we can hardly breathe and sweating while standing in the shadow (because you can't stay longer than 1 minute in the sun...) we decided to go directly to burkina and coming back later with not so much luggage. so we had only one but interesting da