Bobo Dioulasso
Bobo-Dioulasso is the second largest city in Burkina Faso after the capital, Ouagadougou.
It straddles the River Oue, which gives the province its name. It is located about 310 km southwest of Ouagadougou, and is a commercial and industrial center with groundnut mills, soap factories, cotton gins, and cloth factories.
It was the railway terminus linking the former capital of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan, with that of Upper Volta (the former name of Burkina Faso) from 1934 to 1954, during the colonial administration of French West Africa.
The name is formed to reconcile the Bobo and Dioula ethnic groups.
Places of interest
Bobo-Dioulasso is famous for its great mosque built in 1880 with mud following the typical Sudanese style. Other important places are the Konsa palace and the fish lake, sacred according to the local traditional religion. We also found a museum, a zoo and a ceramics market.