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« We have accompanied our donkey which would have liked to carry us at the same time as our suitcases but we
have preferred walking on the road, mixing with the men who came back from the fields or sometimes helping the women
carrying on our head their bundle of woods, which made everybody have fun. » Daniel and Michel
« Our hosts made us stay in their house and let us have a bedroom,
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with a bed, a chair, and a table!!!
Everything was basic, but when the other tourists take advantage of the comfort of an hotel, the European
breakfast or an air-conditioned and open car, we take advantage of a warm welcome, of emotional meetings, of
musical evenings, or long talks. We are no more tourists but travelers who are lucky enough to share, through
these transports, this accommodation, and the daily life of their hosts. All the time, they prove us that
the most important is
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not what we have, but what we are!» Isabelle and Jean-Jacques
« Here, the life is rough; the unnecessary thing has not its place!! I found there simplicity and human warmth throughout
the travel, in the various transports (going by the delivery tricycle that we have pushed by night in the bush, the
fishing vessel with the pleasure to be carried by the Niger…) or in every village that so warmly welcomed us. » Sylvie
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