Category: Ivory Coast

Friday’s Featured Food: Beef🥩Pepper🌶️Onion🧅Rolls🥖At Breakfast At Eto'o Restaurant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

Friday’s Featured Food: Beef🥩Pepper🌶️Onion🧅Rolls🥖At Breakfast At Eto’o Food Restaurant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

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This edition of Friday’s Featured Food will take us back from Ivory Coast in December 2024 to Cameroon 9 months prior via a visa quest for the Central African Republic. In March 2024 when backpacking in Douala, Cameroon, I asked my guide Mebah Markdonald (of Discover Cameroon Tours) if I could attend a top division Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Beef🥩Pepper🌶️Onion🧅Rolls🥖At Breakfast At Eto’o Food Restaurant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮[…]

Friday's Featured Food: Rabbit 🐇On New Year's Eve At Chez Laetitia in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

Friday’s Featured Food: Rabbit 🐇On New Year’s Eve At Chez Laetitia in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

Posted on by Jonny Blair

“Another year over; a new one just begun” – John Lennon. I found myself back in Ivory Coast at the end of 2024, and this is where Marek and I celebrated New Year’s Eve 2024 and New Year’s Day 2025. I had backpacked through Abidjan and Grand Bassam before, back in 2018. On that trip, Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Rabbit 🐇On New Year’s Eve At Chez Laetitia in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮[…]

Backpacking in Ivory Coast: Touring the UNESCO Town of Grand Bassam

Backpacking in Ivory Coast: Top 9 Sights In Grand Bassam UNESCO Town

Posted on by Jonny Blair

I recently backpacked through two cities in the Ivory Coast – Abidjan (regarded as the capital) and Grand Bassam, the UNESCO listed city. I was able to get an online visa, which i collected on arrival at the international airport in Abidjan. I based myself at the Hotel Ibis Plateau in Abidjan and backpacked the Read more about Backpacking in Ivory Coast: Top 9 Sights In Grand Bassam UNESCO Town[…]

How to Get an Ivory Coast🇨🇮Visa Online Before Arrival at Abidjan Airport

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This was actually my sixth trip to Africa, yet it is still one of the continents with huge blanks from me. It is the most challenging continent in my opinion to travel. This is due to the logistics, the visa issues, the overland transport and sadly the disease and poverty in some regions. But that Read more about How to Get an Ivory Coast🇨🇮Visa Online Before Arrival at Abidjan Airport[…]

Staying at the Ibis Plateau in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

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Since 2015, I have been using Ibis Hotels as one of my consistent brands to stay in. I have so far stayed in their hotels in Poland, Kaliningrad, Kuwait, France and Bahrain. Next it was the turn of the Cote d’Ivoire or the Ivory Coast. I was backpacking in Abidjan and Grand Bassam after getting Read more about Staying at the Ibis Plateau in Abidjan, Ivory Coast[…]

Backpacking in Ivory Coast: Top 11 Sights in Abidjan

Backpacking in Ivory Coast: Top 12 Sights in Abidjan

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Abidjan capitals the Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and is a great city. But please also note that Yamoussoukro is the political capital. It is well designed, diverse and for sure up and coming. Like many cities from my backpacking journeys, it is crying to be found. It screams but you won’t hear it until bloggers and tourists like Read more about Backpacking in Ivory Coast: Top 12 Sights in Abidjan[…]