North Burkina Faso

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North Burkina Faso is the Sahelian region of Burkina Faso, along the border of Mali and Niger.

Travel Warning WARNING: See travel warning at Burkina Faso article.
Government travel advisories
(Information last updated 30 May 2023)

Cities

  • 🌍 Bani – known for its seven clay mosques
  • 🌍 Bokin
  • 🌍 Djibo — an important market for cattle, sheep, goats
  • 🌍 Dori — a good place to buy Dori blankets, Touareg silver, and tailored clothes
  • 🌍 Gorom-Gorom — a convenient base for travelling to culturally interesting, colorful, remote, exotic villages and sites in Oudalan
  • 🌍 Kaya — the leather capital of Burkina
  • 🌍 Ouahigouya — the one large city in the region, and the final major city in Burkina on the route to Mali
  • 🌍 Yako — the birthplace of Burkina Faso's former president Thomas Sankara

Other destinations

  • 🌍 Sylvo-Pastoral and Partial Faunal Reserve of the Sahel — it has several temporary lakes that are important for migratory birds

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Get in

Ouahigouya is the point of arrival for those coming from Mali, and has frequent buses from Ouagadougou.

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Ancient ferrous metallurgy sites

Five sites with ancient iron mines and furnaces around Burkina Faso have been listed as a world heritage site. Three of them are in North Burkina Faso (the other two are in the Black Volta Region):

  • 🌍 Tiwêga Site (west of Kaya). (updated Jul 2019)
  • 🌍 Yamané Site (between Mané and Ziniaré). (updated Jul 2019)
  • 🌍 Kindibo Site (east of Gourcy). (updated Jul 2019)

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