Well, there aren’t many trains here in West Africa, so we certainly didn’t want to miss the opportunity for a train ride from Ouagadougou to Banfora. Saturday morning at 7:30 one of those trains was supposed to depart (nice, we thought, because if it leaves early, we will arrive at the
destination before sunset) … it left 6.5h too late! We waited in a little park opposite the station for practically the entire time – rather relaxing and a first chance for Nico to interact with Africa’s kids (and they were very happy that they had our attention). The train ride itself was very slow and sitting on plastic seats it was not necessarily comfortable
(although we were lucky that it was cloudy, so at least it wasn’t hot and it was the day of the football match between Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, so the train wasn’t overcrowded). The experience was great; us the only westerners among many local travellers. At midnight we finally reached Bobo-Dioulasso and as Banfora was still three hours away, we decided to get off already here… we had enough for a first experience.
Well, there aren’t many trains here in West Africa, so we certainly didn’t want to miss the opportunity for a train ride from Ouagadougou to Banfora. Saturday morning at 7:30 one of those trains was supposed to depart (nice, we thought, because if it leaves early, we will arrive at the 
destination before sunset) … it left 6.5h too late! We waited in a little park opposite the station for practically the entire time – rather relaxing and a first chance for Nico to interact with Africa’s kids (and they were very happy that they had our attention). The train ride itself was very slow and sitting on plastic seats it was not necessarily comfortable 
(although we were lucky that it was cloudy, so at least it wasn’t hot and it was the day of the football match between Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, so the train wasn’t overcrowded). The experience was great; us the only westerners among many local travellers. At midnight we finally reached Bobo-Dioulasso and as Banfora was still three hours away, we decided to get off already here… we had enough for a first experience.
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