{"id":1407,"date":"2010-04-02T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T11:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2020-10-26T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:32:33","slug":"onwards-to-ouagadougou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/onwards-to-ouagadougou\/","title":{"rendered":"Onwards to Ouagadougou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Ball has been given two blessings from two fetishmen in one morning and now we&#8217;re leaving Teli and the Dogon Country and are on our way to Bankass to catch a bus to Koro in the far east of Mali.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_1408\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_bus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1408 size-full\" title=\"Our bus to Bankass\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_bus.jpg\" alt=\"Our bus to Bankass\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_bus.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_bus-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_bus-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_bus-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_bus-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_bus-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our bus to Bankass<\/small><\/div>\n<p>From there another bus takes us across the border into Burkina Faso. At the Burkina Faso border control point we play football with others on our bus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_1409\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1409 size-full\" title=\"The Bankass bus team\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_team.jpg\" alt=\"The Bankass bus team\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_team.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_team-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_team-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_team-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_team-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_team-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bankass bus team<\/small><\/div>\n<p>Phil picks up the last set of tickets for one more bus to Ouagadougou. Although the journey is fascinating and the company delightful, we&#8217;re really looking forward to arriving at our destination for the chance to have a rest, we hope!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ball has been given two blessings from two fetishmen in one morning and now we&#8217;re leaving Teli and the Dogon Country and are on our way to Bankass to catch a bus to Koro in the far east of Mali. From there another bus takes us across the border into Burkina Faso. At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,18,232],"tags":[107,59,76,90],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burkina-faso-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-bankass","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-mali","tag-travel"],"geo":{"latitude":14.0666665999999995761982063413597643375396728515625,"longitude":-3.5166667000000000342652128892950713634490966796875,"description":"Bankass"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mali_bankass_team.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}