Sep 4, 2017 | Travels
Where the country gets its name … from the white sand coast Country Information: The Côte d’Ivoire, or the Ivory Coast. About 27 million people live here and the capital is Yamoussoukro. The Côte d’Ivoire is a religiously secular country, with...
Sep 4, 2017 | Travels
Public transport in Mali! Country Information: The capital of Mali is Bamako. There are approximately 21 million people living here. The official language of Mali is French, with Bambara also spoken by a large percentage of the population as well. The majority of...
Sep 4, 2017 | Travels
Sitting on crocodile in Lagos art gallery In Nigeria, About 210 million people live here and the capital is Abuja. The official language in Nigeria is English and the country is split between two religions, with a mostly Muslim population living in the north and a...
Sep 4, 2017 | Travels
Shopping for dinner in the market! Country Information: Cabo Verde is also known as Cape Verde. It’s located on a volcanic archipelago off of the coast of Africa in the northwest. About 600,000 thousand people live here and the capital is Praia. The official language...
Sep 4, 2017 | Travels
Country Information: The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou. About 18 million people live here and the official language is French. Burkina Faso is religiously diverse and exercises freedom of religion; that being said, Islam is the most popular religion followed...
Sep 4, 2017 | Travels
Note the yellow shirt … this is what the motorcycle taxi drivers wear here Country Background: The capital of Benin is Porto Novo. There are approximately 11 million people living in this beautiful coastal country. The official language of Benin is French, but...
Aug 28, 2017 | Travels
(Visited in 2017) You just couldn’t make up this country’s past: colonized by the Portuguese, declared their independence in 1975, and then 9 days later the Indonesians invade East Timor. For the next 25 years they rebelled against the Indonesian occupation,...
Aug 28, 2017 | Travels
Country Information: Trinidad and Tobago is a country mostly with plains, some hills, and low mountains. The capital of Trinidad and Tobago is Port of Spain. There are approximately 1.5 people living here. The official language of Trinidad and Tobago is English, with...
Aug 28, 2017 | Travels
Country Information: It is in the epicenter of the Asian trade routes. The Caspian Sea dominates the landscape and has a significant impact on the country’s temperate climate Sleek city streets with opportunities for shopping Yet this country fought a brutal...
Aug 28, 2017 | Travels
Not my favorite destination in the Pacific, although I likely might’ve felt otherwise had the weather cooperated and I had been able to get to the rim of the famed Tanna Volcano, on which you can feel it rumbling with molten lava spitting from its cone. While it...
