daily photo niger

laundry

The harmattan has been blowing, which accounts for the dusty skies and cooler weather; it's been in eighties for days now.

pirogue, park w

At a "w" curve of the Niger river, where Burkina, Benin and Niger share a boarder, sits the largest nature preserve in West Africa.

pirogue

The Kennedy Bridge, which you can see in the background, is the only way to cross the river for a couple hundred miles in either direction. Or you can always take a pirogue; watch out for hippos though.