From the odd start to my trip to Mauritania (the Benin airport), I arrived late at night to realize, “Man, this airport is FAR from the city!” Oddly, there were 0 taxis available. I asked around, and they pointed me to some guy driving a 1937 box with tape & glue, and off we went….
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From Freetown, Sierra Leone, I flew to Cotonou, Benin. They’ve set up a tented medical facility at the airport for COVID testing on arrival. You take a rapid test to be allowed to leave the airport, and later you get the results of your PCR test. Since I was planning to stay only about 30…
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Looking at “where can I fly from here?” in Ouagadougou, Sierra Leone was the winner. With an online visa application process through a travel agency and COVID testing on arrival, it was my best destination for flight options. The airport is insanely far from Freetown itself, In fact, it’s on the other side of a…
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Since I changed my plans short-notice, I made a booking for the Ibis on the east side of Abidjan, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire. On arrival at the airport, I saw a van driver with an Ibis west side sign. I asked him if someone was coming from the east side location or if I…
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I will be honest that I didn’t have the best experience in Togo. On arrival in Lomé, the capital, the airport drug police were OBSESSED with the idea that I was a drug trafficker. Obsessed. They didn’t know that I can speak French, so they kept talking about me saying that I’m clearly a drug…
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