In and around Ouahigouya

In January our daddies came to visit us: Georges (Heleen's dad) and Erik (Wim's dad). In Ouahigouya they came to take a look at how we live and work.

This is the barrage near Ouahigouya. The big lake supplies water, not only to the gardeners, but also to the brewery and the water company that provides the town of drinkable running water. From left to right on the picture: dad Erik, Wim (still no dad), dad Georges and a great unknown.

In Ouahigouya every day is market day. Here we buy our fruits and vegetables.

In Soulou we visited the women group of potters. Bibir helps them to build an oven. Here the oven is still under construction, but in Picture of the week you can see the result.

A moving van as we know it is hard to find here. Dromedaries are a useful alternative.

Heleen's colleague Tambora belongs to the Peulh people (herdsmen). The Peulh live in ingeniously constructed round houses of straw and wood.

Inside a Peulh house, it isn't hot at all. From left to right you see Tambora, papa Georges and one of the boys living in this house.

At the barrage lake of Tougou, Heleen tries to explain how it works, a barrage. Thanks to this lake, the children of Tougou B have their school garden.

Near Bembela, two cyclists meet a boy with a donkey car.

In Leba, at Prosper and Bernadette's place, we are warmly welcomed. They even offer us a white cock, a most precious gift.

We end at home, where we just finished eating tô. Preparing tô isn't easy at all, it requires skills that we lack. Damien and Pascaline made tô for us.

After the meal, the dishes are waiting to be washed. Our dads were that impressed by our way of doing the dishes, that they wanted to try it themselves.

Visiting Burkina Faso without drinking dolo, that's impossible.