January

Two Swedish guys knocked on my door, back in late January. They were backpackers travelling around Africa. They had met the Tidjikja volunteers who recommended that they come down to my site. We hired a 4x4 for a morning and went and visited Mat Mata the gorge with the crocodile pool. Along the way we passed several villages and driving along the floodplain there were mounds of stone with mud plastered onto the outside. The guidebooks say that they are old granaries some around 2000 years old??! We also did some hiking north of my village and climbed some rocks to get a good view of my valley. Our driver thought it was necessary to walk around with his shotgun the whole time, we didn't see any crocodiles but we did see a dead monitor lizard.
Along the way, we decided to travel together to the film festival in Burkina Faso. I had plans to go with a couple of volunteers, and we figured the more the merrier.