Mount Everest

We walked around these rock formations, along with climbing to the tops of some to see the beautiful land surrounding us, embracing God's creation.

Our next destination was the Cascades, the natural waterfalls of Banfora, and a much awaited swimming hole.  We climbed to what seemed like Mt. Everest** in the middle of what seemed like the Sahara Desert***, to get to the Cascades, or waterfalls.

  While there, a majority of us swam and cooled off in the water. With ham and butter sandwiches in hand, made by our hotel, the sunbathing and relaxing began.  After a few hours in the sun, a few of us were sun kissed with tan lines but others (cough Lauren) forgot to apply sunscreen and now looks like a lobster, standing out like an American tourist (sorry Deb). For now we are relaxing at our hotel until our departure from Banfora back to Ouaga around noon tomorrow.  We are hoping that the Mahadaga group made it there safely and will post when we hear they are!


**We were not actually climbing mount Everest, just something that seemed to be comparable to it
***Even though we are in Africa, we aren't in the Sahara desert.  We are in a region of Africa called the Sahel, beneath the Sahara with similar scorching heat.