A story of one of the legendary W123's of Mercedes on vegetable oil
Posts tagged ‘burkina faso’
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| Back in Ouagadougou again. Having my tyres fixed |
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| Buzzing streets in Ouagadougou |
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This is how they fixed my tyre: Just meld the rubber to seal the rubber. It took about one and a half hour, bit long, if you ask me  |
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| Green Mercedes taxis in Ouagadougou |
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| South Burkina Faso, on my way to Ghana |
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| Waterfall from the air, Burkina Faso |
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| Huge showers make driving nearly impossible |
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| Taking the ‘moped’ route to the falls |
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| Then we got stuck. We used the cane to get out. Putting loads of cane in front of the rear wheels helps to get grip again. Though it takes some time and dirty feet. |
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| Getting out of the mud |
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| Huge fruits from the tree |
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| The Banfora Waterfalls |
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| Domes de Fabedougou |
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| The Saharagelber in Burkina Faso |
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| Burkinabe village |
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| Cooking ‘meself’ a meal |
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| It’s incredible how rythmic these men are. They play here every night, and in the weekend lots of villagers came to visit too, this band is formidable! The children and women started to dance |
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| Taking the ‘moped’ route to the falls |
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| Then we got stuck. We used the cane to get out. Putting loads of cane in front of the rear wheels helps to get grip again. Though it takes some time and dirty feet. |
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| Getting out of the mud |
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| Red gravel roads, Burkina Faso |
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| Beautiful rainforest, Burkina Faso |
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Passing the 111111km  |
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| Heading to Banfora and enjoying the W123 diesel |
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| Cool campsite in Bobo-Dioulasso |
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| Bobo-Dioulasso |
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| Taking a tour through the old town |
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| The old town of Bobo-Dioulasso |
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| Old town in Bobo-Dioulasso where the original tribe still lives |
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| A good woodworker builds very nice furniture. He showed me in a book what he creates and sells. It was really good work. He made beds and cupboards, tables etc. |
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| Yellow coloured Mosque in Bobo-Dioulasso |
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| Djembe performance in this relaxed restaurant |
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| A still full operational W123 Taxi in Ouagadougou |
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| The tollroad checkpoint in Burkina Faso. The checkpoints consists of gates which will be opened by someone after you paid. |
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| People standing under the tree, wondering who’s camping right there That’s how I woke up, by the voices of the people who start to work early on the fields. |
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| Old Mercedes 190, the passengers must have ended up dead.. This must have been a very nasty crash. I think this would be a good way too for Europe, to leave the crashed vehicles for sometime. People will hopefully think better about speeding. |
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| Being on my own again, having lunch somewhere on the road to Ouagadougou |
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| Aproaching Ouagadougou. Burkina Faso’s capital has the cool name ‘Ouagadougou’, nice Scrabble word. |
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| Mud mosque |
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| Driving through Africa |
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| Bush camping in Burkina Faso close to Ouahigouya |