BURKINA FASO - PÔ DAY 256 282km

GHANA 🇬🇭 TO BURKINA FASO 🇧🇫  

13-1-25         282kms.

Hoping I had a border to cross I left early for the 200km ride to Burkino Faso. Was not a good road with many potholes, villages and speedbumps and took all of three and a half hours.

Had to explain my dilemma to the Ghanian Customs then the Immigration and they were real nice and allowed me to go to Burkino Faso before being stamped out. Got to the BF Immigration , now it is back to French and no English. I showed him my e-mail that they had received my visa application but I do not have the visa yet and need to keep moving and if they could maybe help me. The officer helped me and then went to visit another officer and then he spoke to me and disappeared while I waited anxiously. He came back and showed me on his phone that indeed I had the visa, so was elated and they processed me in no time. Then went back to Ghana Immigration and got stamped out and was good to go.

My gamble paid off and what a lucky break and I still have not received my e - visa, maybe never will, but I am in.

    It was an easy border crossing ,bar my dilemma, it went.smooth and quick and everyone was helpful and friendly with no payments or bribes. Never expected thay would help me like they did. You just never know.

Crossed back into BF and about twenty minutes later was stopped at a police checkpoint. So showed him my entry stamp, but he wanted to see the Visa, so he ended up making some calls and taking photos of my license plate and then I was good to go . They were friendly and gave me water and took pictures and even gave me his badge.

Arrived in Põ a short while later then went to Tiébélé to the Court Royale, a Unesco site.

Royal Court of Tiébélé

 

The Royal Court of Tiébélé is a traditional Kassena architectural complex located in the town of Tiébélé, in the Centre-Sud Region of Burkina Faso. This traditional complex consists of the residence and court of the Kassena king (Pè) and other royal family members, mausoleums, memorials, shrines, and other traditional adobe structures such as sacred groves and stone courts.^[1] The adobe structures of the complex are also renown for their traditionally decorated and painted walls, a craft that is done exclusively by women.^[2] The traditional royal court ensemble was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2024.^[

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