Road Trip Day 6 - Yankari to Kano

We left Yankari on the long drive north through Sahel country, across a couple of states to the historic capital of the North - Kano

Yankari had been great fun, but there was the lingering thought that the massive new resort they were building would never be used. As the poachers only saw fit to shoot the "good" animals, leaving only bands of marauding baboons, there wasn't ever going to be anything to see that couldn't be done with much more ease in Kenya, Tanzania, Sth Africa and twenty other countries...

a traditional bee hive used for honey production

Strangely, even though the sun beat down and everything was on it's last legs in the dry season, it was surprisingly cool - 20 degrees or so in the dessert..

washing by the river

there's a car under there somewhere


Bauchi

on the way to market

There are huge clay brick pits dotting the landscape in the North. Further south, the houses would never survive the rains in the wet season.