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Our bush taxi to Dassa.

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My lovely survey crew.

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Bashiru, one of the local guys from Totah who works on survey with us. We flagged him as a marker for the car which was on its way to pick us up.

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Waiting in the morning for cars to load up and head out.

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A bit afraid of the hermaphroditic ostrich in Dassa.

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I've been rather bad about posting any picture of this trip so now I bring you a picture post (with another one to follow soon) of things in no particular order.


More or less how I appear each day on site: disheveled and incredulous. This is at the Cana-Totah site, which is part of the UCLA field school. I occasionally help out on the survey project they're running there.

Me in Ketou, my first solo (or sans organized group) trip in West Africa.

Team Awesome Fix-Crew McMaster 3000. Also, my coworker.

My favorite baobab thus far.

My project director in a souterrain we found on survey.

Outside the internet cafe, looking out on Bohicon.

Ganvie, the Venice of Benin.