The Rough Guide to West AfricaIn a part of the world where you truly depend on your guidebook, the Rough Guide is designed to work as a life support system and cultural companion whether you're here on business, taking a short holiday, or on an overland trip. Covering the entire region from Cape Verde to Cameroon, the Rough Guide finds off-the-beaten path attractions and writes up facilities in places that are barely on the map, as well as giving you practical advice on how to survive -- and enjoy -- cities such as Lagos, Abidjan, Dakar and Yaounde. The Observer, London: "Informative, erudite, useful and insightful." Financial Times: "The best guidebook." |
Contents
32 | 69 |
People and languages | 75 |
Senegal | 145 |
Point of interest Taxibus stop | 224 |
The Gambia | 247 |
Languages | 305 |
Cliff Church town maps | 357 |
Mopti and the delta region | 364 |
Language | 747 |
The south and east | 753 |
855 | 817 |
Sierra Leone | 839 |
Benin | 879 |
History | 889 |
Niger | 935 |
The front colour section offers an visit and when to go The introduction | 968 |
The Barlaventos | 460 |
GuineaBissau | 485 |
Guinea | 529 |
Sierra Leone | 597 |
Burkina Faso | 649 |
Highlights | 721 |
Nigeria | 993 |
History | 1036 |
926 | 1137 |
935992 | 1154 |
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accommodation Accra Airlines airport arrive Asante Auberge Bamako Banjul bank Basics beach Bissau Bobo border British Burkina Faso buses bush taxi Café camp Campement Cape Verde Cape Verdean capital central centre century coast colonial Conakry Côte d'Ivoire cultural daily Dakar Dogon drinking east Embassy ferry fish flights Fouta Djalon Freetown French Fula Gambia gare routière Ghana Ghanaian Guesthouse Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guinée Hôtel houses islands kilometres Kumasi Mali Marché Mauritania Mindelo Mopti mosque National Park Niger night Nouadhibou Nouakchott offers option Ouaga Ouagadougou pirogue popular Portuguese Praia region restaurant Ribeira River road route s/c rooms season Ségou Senegal Senegalese Sierra Leone slaves station stay street there's Timbuktu tion tour tourist town traditional transport trip Tuareg usually vehicle village visas West Africa Wolof Ziguinchor