In addition to Belize, Bhutan, Brunei and Burundi any list of countries you don't know anything about should include Burkina Faso.
In the centre of West Africa with close to no natural resources, annual famines and a corrupt pseudo-democracy jerking the rudder of this landlocked sinking country - it doesn't promote itself as paradise.
On our initial itinerary, five days were set aside to transit the country, but after eight days in the anti-picturesque capital;
Ouagadougou and eight more days in the second-largest city;
Bobo-Dioulasso, we had made some small amendments to our schedule.
In terms of sights or activity there's not much to neither see nor do. We rented motorbikes and went to the
Kou forest park, swam in a waterfall and rented a canoe for a tranquil lake trip to see some hippos.
Other than that, we didn't do very much.
We had access to a kitchen for a week and cooked some proper food for once, had a big common dinner among friends and a splurge or two or three in fancy restaurants.
Other than that, we had mind-numbing street food.
In the southwestern chunk of
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