The video's actually the right way up this time... Half an hour after rain, about 15 minutes out of Ouagadougou dodging potholes on the main eastbound highway since it's not being repaired until redone with the new fancy overpass/interchange with Ouaga's circular bypass road. So the theory is that getting to this plot in a year or two should be a breeze, and the construction all around shows how quickly the town is moving outward even though there's not many facilities here at present. Anyway, the high clearance of the Rav has been invaluable in the bush-bashing or puddle-surfing to some of these spots.
Once you get to the plots other questions then arise: do you want room for a volleyball court or a footy field to provide oxygen to students' brains getting fatigued after hours of homework? Or is there one nearby? What about families with kids and their schools? This one has a private school just behind, another (Assembly of God-run) on the main road about 300m away and a public primary school 400m away.
Translation of 'franglais' terms used in the video:
poteaux pronounced "pot-toe" - phone or in this case electric poles;
2000 metres carrés - square metres; 1/5 of a hectare, roughly 7 local house plots;
six tôles "see tolles" - minimum size house to claim a plot of land: one room, usually mudbrick, with 6 sheets of corrugated iron roofing (tôles), as seen on the left in the photo above next to my transport cum moving van (the back seats haven't been down this past week of treks to and from IMS transporting goods to new office or storage).
