My trip to Niger

Hello all!

Lin related: I've been hunting Sanctuary of Evil a lot lately. So, not very many cool SS to take. in fact, it's not worth uploading them now!

I finally have some time to myself, so i decided to post about my trip to Niger. For all of you who don't know where it is, here is map of Niger. If you haven't realized, it's in Africa (if you don't know where Africa is, stop reading now plz). I will not post all of the pictures i took cuz it would take too long. So I choose a few of them, hope all will enjoy!

Let's start with a view from the plane, before landing. That's basicaly what most of the country looks like. Very dry, lots of dust, sands and wind.
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As soon as we landed and got down with all the check in process, we took a car and went in the city streets, it was 5pm local time so very busy. Almost look like home till we start see'ing things like this!
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In Niger, the rain season last for about 2 months. During that time, it rains about 2 or 3 days a week. Other than that, there is no cloud in the sky. All the "clouds" you can see comes from the wind from the Sahara desert. Anyhow, I was impressed to still be able to see many trees. There is one of the most impresseive one I saw.
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Even with the lack of rain, there is some culture going on there. They are growing onions there (the green stuff on ground).
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Here is a typical small village you see. Little groupings of houses. Usually familly like brothers and sisters and their kids and parents. They rarely staying at same place for more than 4-5 years, so they aren't always very solid constructions.
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If you look back at the map of Niger, you can find a city named Magaria, south of Zinder and very close to the Nigeria. Well, the plane laned at the capital, Niamey, and my mother wanted to show us where she was working, at Magaria. To go there, belive it or not, we had to do 18 hours to do Niamey-Magaria (and 20 for the way back ~_~ ). No train there, so had to go with a car. Let me tell you something, the roads there.... can't be called roads!!! We saw that truck (in next picture) at night on our way to Magaria, it was night so couldn't take picture. But we saw him again on our way back, 4 days later (poor guy....)
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That truck must have meet one of those other truck transporting loads of cheap mattresses. Those guy doesn't care about others on the roads, that or they don't realize they take more than 3/4 of road!
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T2o funny things back to back. A dryed river and some irrigation.
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Sad thing is that it's the only irrigation system I've seen, but at least they have the knowledge to do some! Nutrition is there biggest issue atm. They can't grow enought food and can't grow many kind of things. They don't know what to grow so they can get more food. For example, mango tree can live in some area of the country, but they don't even care about the fruit... Anyways, here are some girafes.
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So, we had to leave at some point and had to make a stop at Paris. We got there at night, so here what it looks like in the dark.
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We had to stay there for 7 hours... I wanted to kill myself. I was awake for more than 30 hours, it was 7am and I was in Paris' airport. I let you imagine the rest... anyway, the flight was on time, at least. We flew over a cool place. We ask the flight crew and 1 of them told us it was Greenland.
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Ok, that's all for my trip. I must say the ppl there were very welcoming. They very nice ppl and it's one of the rare place where you wont see any thief.

Hope you all enjoyed!
-CP-