We left Ouagga on Christmas Eve, en route for Sabou, about 90 km west of Ouagga and on the way to the Ghanian Border. We thought it was about time we tried to see some big African wildlife and had read of the sacred crocodile lake at Sabou, which sounded quite naff in the guide book: 'you arrive, you're assailed by kids from whom you buy a live chicken at a sacrificial price, it's fed to a croc which lumbers out of the water and photos are taken of you, them and, grinning the widest, the croc'. So, prepared for a real tourist trap we tentatively drove into town - but where were the kids assailing us with their live chickens? I think we must have picked a very quiet day because it was all we
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