
Borders, Busses and Burkina Faso
Crossing the border from Benin to Burkina Faso. We’ve seen a lot of creative transport solutions but the mini-busses of Burkina Faso take the prize.
I like traveling by road from one country to the next – overland travel, which is the main focus of this blog. This obsession has led to me spending an abnormal amount of time on buses, bush taxis, motorbikes, rickshaws, night trains, cargo ships…you name it. Pretty much any conveyance there is, I’ve probably been crammed aboard, sweating in a seat that isn’t meant for someone my height, likely sharing it with a family, or a chicken at least.
As the saying goes, ‘Suffering is half the fun’…no wait, that’s not it.

Crossing the border from Benin to Burkina Faso. We’ve seen a lot of creative transport solutions but the mini-busses of Burkina Faso take the prize.

After some fabulous days in the Bijagos Archipelago and a private flight back to the mainland, we were ready to take on the overland journey into Guinea…or so we thought.

Crossing the border from Benin to Burkina Faso. We’ve seen a lot of creative transport solutions but the mini-busses of Burkina Faso take the prize.

After some fabulous days in the Bijagos Archipelago and a private flight back to the mainland, we were ready to take on the overland journey into Guinea…or so we thought.