Banfora

Banfora is a city in Burkina Faso

Understand
Banfora is greener than Bobo – and of course is home to the famous Banfora Cascades (actually about 10 km away from the city itself – but easily accessible by bike). Banfora has more Faux Types than Bobo – and you get more unsolicited attention.

French and Jula are spoken. Lots of sugar cane fields line the route as you come in from Bobo (a main crop down there).

Get in
STMB and Rakieta, Sogebaf, and assorted taxi brousses all roll the Bobo Banfora route. Rakieta comes recommended above all others. Air-conditioned between Bobo and Ouagadougou (1500F Banfora-Bobo, 7000F Banfora-Ouaga as of April 2009)

Trains on the line between Ouagadougou and Abidjan call in Banfora.



Do

 * Dômes de Fabédougou (10 km from town) great dome-shaped sandstone formations in the vicinity of the falls and the sugarcane fields.
 * Dômes de Fabédougou (10 km from town) great dome-shaped sandstone formations in the vicinity of the falls and the sugarcane fields.
 * Dômes de Fabédougou (10 km from town) great dome-shaped sandstone formations in the vicinity of the falls and the sugarcane fields.

Buy

 * Marché The Grand Marche is on Sundays – but all other days of the week there is a significant marche where you can get most anything.
 * Boutiques Ubiquitous. Supermarkets and Shops to note – Between the Alimentation across from the Marche and its super-well-stocked boutique neighbor lots is available (eggs, flour, yoghurt, fancy cookies, duracell batteries, etc. ) The boutique near the round point has milk sometimes and there is a gas station shop on the road to Bobo as you leave town. Beauty products are available from a store next door to McDonalds (not the golden arches kind).
 * Tailors

Drink

 * A local specialty is bangui, a palm wine made from Borassus palms.

Connect

 * Post Office You can use it to withdraw money from your postal checking account. 7:30AM–11:30AM and 3PM–5PM.
 * Internet Apparently lots of one horse (computer) joints exist and the general price is near 3000cfa for one hour. The better option is one right next to the Catholic School.

Go next

 * Peaks of Sindou (45 km from town) watch out for the dirty water there – and you’ll need a guide.
 * Comoé-Léraba Reserve (100 km from town) some of the best wildlife experiences in Burkina Faso.
 * Niansogoni (90 km from town) beautiful 'village troglodyte' on the cliffs, nice relaxing 'campement' below.