Here are a few photos from my trip backpacking around West Africa. I traveled with 2 other volunteers visiting Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, and Benin for 3 1/2 weeks.
Highlights include winding along the mud streets around the world's largest mud building in Mali, trekking through the Sahel in isolated Dogon Country in Mali - an area still rich in traditional culture, hopping around the cascading waterfalls in Burkina with one of my best friends from high school who is a PCV in Burkina, climbing to the ancient cliff fortresses in northern Togo, catching butterflies with nets in the rain forested mountains in southern Togo, walking around the Voodoo markets of Lome, relaxing in the sun on the beautiful beaches of Benin, and sailing around a stilt village entirely built on sticks in the middle of a lake in Benin.
It was a great trip and a lot of fun, but its good to be back in Cameroon, which as it turns out, has a lot more than most other countries in West Africa - we actually have a regular supply of fruits and veggies! It was a great break and now I'm ready to take on Year 2...
