Anything following the sun rising over Lake Tengrela was bound to be just fine. We took a morning walk by the lakeshore. Despite the vegetation being quite different from the north, the villages here looked quite similar to the ones near Ouahigouya and Kaya.
Then we went to a banana plantation. And maybe all these plantations that the guide wanted to show us would have been interesting to someone who hadn’t been in the tropics before, or who wasn’t familiar with agricultural practices. But for me, well, I had seen it all before.
Banana plants are like weeds in most parts of tropical Africa and lowland South America.
The tiny banana flowers are quite funny-looking. I can at least say that.
Katja Malmborg 