Oyé Oyé nous voici à Tanguiéta !
Nous avons encore vécu de grandes aventures !
Départ pour Nikki mardi matin (lever à 5h30...dur dur mais ça passe mieux avec un jus d’orange frais pressé). Le travail à Nikki s’est très bien passé, nous avons bien optimisé notre temps. Le nouveau Dépôt est déjà prêt à être utilisé. Une chose est sûre les bailleurs privés sont plus rapides que l'Etat béninois. L’hôtel était un peu rudimentaire… First evening, the door of the bathroom that does not close, no light in the bathroom and no shower or bucket (it's nice when it comes to the red track!). So we ran into the bedroom for him Alain prick her shower.
Having finished our work quickly, we returned to Parakou with Alain for a departure direction Malanville Friday. The day begins: we were tasked with preparing the picnic lunch or sandwiches Laughing Cow (good!) But we found nothing! Unfinished task! But we start trusting and we find our food on the road. Everything could be fine if we had not lost a rear shock on the road causing a puncture. Eric (the driver) has changed the wheel (should not count on us too!). We will resume the road when suddenly a strange noise is heard. Second puncture? No! Just the muffler that fell. So Eric (still removing all our luggage that is to say big 4 huge bags and more!) Transferred the pot. It must be said that the road was terrible (but certainly paved with potholes as a hole). We were all eager to reach Petit Paris, a village from where the road becomes good. We arrived at Petit Paris ... And then the drama! SECOND puncture but more spare !!!!! Luckily, we had a puncture at a village Gamagou. Some people have kindly helped us to contact a mechanic to whom he remained a single wheel adapted to the car. But too late to go to Malanville, so we stopped for the night at Kandi.
arrived at Malanville on Saturday for the weekend. Sunday, boat ride on the Niger. It was very disorienting even if we would have preferred that Zechariah (Malanville driver) does not paddle at the risk of capsizing. In the afternoon, we still worked to prepare the following week.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, work at Kandi. Everything went well. Geraldine has found his friends with a lot of fun. The girls we have crafted Lékiatou of toffee, caramel Benin made from condensed milk. Happiness! We had a great time working with Kandi and gave us many satisfactions. If it continues like this, we will have some interesting data to analyze.
We left Thursday for Atacora Donga Tanguieta direction. Just 5 hours of red run, the car windows open. We quickly changed color. The first landscape views are superb and are very different from the rest of Benin: it is green and mountainous. We are located in a charming small hotel "The baobab," we have a small bungalow in a round hut with a thatched roof. Our arrival in Tanguieta was celebrated by a big storm (rain, lightning, thunder). The evening meal was wet. Today, first contacts with the office staff area. Monday was a holiday, so we'll rearrange our work with teams, but everything is under control. Alan and Michele took off for France tonight and we continue the mission.
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