So Po is a town about 20 km north of Ghana. I went down there to see the chief's compound in Tiebele. Which is what the guide books all direct us to do. So I did it. It was a nice diversion. Good to get out of Ouaga and it is a pretty quiet, laid back place. The day i got there, it was too late in teh day to go see Tiebele so I engaged an annoying tout to take me out to Teakane, another village the guide books instruct us to go see. It was nice, though he was very annoying. I told him to just go home and let me walk back. He was thrilled of course, once I managed to make him understand he didn't have to wait for me.

I was hounded for a bit while out there by some annoying twit who told me I had to go pay the chief to wander around the village. This seems like standard operating procedure for Africa, so eventually I followed him to a hut and he pointed to an obviously drunken, filthy middle aged guy with bad teeth and blue plastic sandals. This, i said, is hte chief? the chief then asked me for dix mil franc, 20 dollars! If they had tried for maybe un mil, two dollars, i might have given it to them. But this guy was obviously not hte chief, so I pushed them out of my way, standard procedure in Burkina (touts actually stand in doorways ot keep you in their shops) and walked back. the walk was beautiful, but long. Longer than I'd thought. Maybe 2 hours. But nice. Got some good shots.