More market pictures! Couldn’t post them all at the same time as that would spoil the fun…

The local honey vendors…

The horse gear department

Hausa saddles

Carmelle and Jmackie were on a scarfhunt-

…looking just about everywhere for the right fabrics with the right colors, size and motif.

We had a crowd around us who were pretty interested […]

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For those of you who are tempted to enjoy the authenticity of Zinder but who could not settle for a volunteer standard, I have found the perfect place for you! Halima, a friend of a friend of mine, just recently opened a new guest house, which is practically situated only a block away from Ishtar’s […]

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So on Sunday morning, my neighbor, her fellow Peace Corps friend from Tillabery and I went to the market, which is one of my favorite places in Zinder.

As always, I was on the lookout for interesting tissues, and this happened to be a particularly good day!

There was just so much to look at!

Fulani favorites…

Hausa favorites…

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For all those of you who have never been to Zinder, here are a few images!

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People often ask me how come I don’t have leather-colored skin, seeing I live in one of the hottest countries in the world which gets such a large portion of the world’s selected sun hours… Well, I do enjoy sunbathing and find few things as relaxing as half an hour in the sun, but the […]

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With a modest daily temperature peak of 41 degrees Celcius, the house has started to warm up well. Instead of wasting money on air condition or fans (which would then be complemented with a wet blanket) - we simply brought our mattresses out on the veranda.

I slept so well all night (despite the “foreign sounds”)…

…but […]

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Another question I asked myself was whether Anette’s last coat of paint would keep the water from leaking out of our mini pool. We tried it out this week end, and hurray, it worked! Except for the water that evaporates, we’re good! We keep about 20 cm which is enough for a dip during the […]

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It’s amazing how much you experience from a five hour long journey between Kano and Zinder. And it’s even more amazing how much of it you can capture with a good camera! I was lucky, because Anette had asked me if there was anything I wanted sent to me in Kano. I asked for my […]

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I was dead tired after the journey - had not slept all night before traveling! Although the night in Kano was short as well (went to bed after 1 am and had to get out of town in time of the Friday prayer - when much of the traffic is closed off) it was soooo […]

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