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And when families are happy, sheltered from disease and misery, life is pleasant in Burkina Faso.
Today is typical, it’s market day : the colours and smells mingle together. Everyone chooses his most appropriate method to carry his belongings. Some choose the donkey and others bring home poultry and mopeds on the minibus.

On the way, one can visit the small factory making balafons.

Balafons are percussion instryments, comparable to xylophones and whose resonances immediately urge one to dance and have a party…

The return on the country tracks offers in this arid land offers grandiose landscapes, with these enormous trees.

Even others called ’ladder trees’.

Finally, the ’unearthable’ Baobab

One often sees the immpressive, gigantic termite mounds

And here is the tranquil village, far from all the hustle and bustle