L'odeur de l'Afrique...
on Wonderous Wanderland (Burkina Faso), 16/Feb/2011 12:14, 34 days ago
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Only a short 6 hour flight from Paris and here we are, on African soil. People keep asking us what our first impressions are but it's hard to tell when they put you up in wonderfully air-conditioned little huts with TV, electricity, wifi (at the restaurant), fridge, huge bathroom, a swimming pool outside, breakfast and two 3-course meals a day, at the edge ('upper south-side') of the city. The VSO people here are great in welcoming us (or 'protecting us' I suspect) with beaming smiles and shaking hands all the time, and they're doing their utmost to ease our way into Burkina. So when it comes to first impressions, I'll pass for now cause the next few weeks and months will give plenty of those, no doubt. Nevertheless, the one thing that really struck me as soon as the door of the aircraft opened and the warm evening breeze rushed in, was the smell. The smell of a 1.4 million people-sized city, the smell of too many motor bikes, of polluted air, of the day's dying heat…. Africa is not Asia but that smell….wow, really familiar. So welcome back "same same but different" - as they say in India.A few pics of our little walk around the area yesterday afternoon:And to show we're really here, our GPS-location:
