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forest Archive
Twyfelfontein, towards dryer lands
Posted on June 27, 2014 | 1 Comment“When you leave, come to me directly instead of going to the reception, okay?“, tells me the security guard of the Khorixas NWR rest camp as I am packing up. […]The logging trucks
Posted on February 2, 2014 | No Comments“Watch out for the logging trucks!“. Logging trucks seem to be the only danger in Gabon, and we were warned against them several times. The “grumiers” carry the timber (les […]Calabar, the gateway out of Nigeria
Posted on November 28, 2013 | 11 CommentsI am now well advanced through Nigeria, I went around the Delta region and I can aim for Calabar. I am no more an Oyihbo but an Oniotsha now, this […]In the meanders of the Oshogbo sacred forest
Posted on November 13, 2013 | 6 CommentsI am an arinaka (or some name like this), a nomad, in Yoruba. That is my answer to people who don’t understand what I am doing on a bicycle in […]Cocoa and koutoukou, the assets of Ivory Coast
Posted on September 29, 2013 | 1 CommentIn Blizreu, alcohol is part of our breakfast and the kids enjoy it too. After Sy, the school principal, and his family have offered us fufu, the old Samuel takes […]