Informations concerning your trip to

Burkina Faso 

Needs to enter to Burkina Faso

• Tourism VISA required for entry
• Passport must be valid at time of entry with at least one page required for entry stamp.
• Yellow Fever Vaccination required for entry
• Prevention against Malaria is highly advice

Travel advice

Burkina and Ouagadougou are peacefull place. But as any place around the world you have to be carefull. At evening and night, never walk along the street with a shoulder bag or a computeur bag. P :ease have a look before your trip to one of these trip advisor:

Advice to travel to burkina Faso from US gouv

Conseils aux voyageurs de France Diplomatie

Money

Local currency in Burkina Faso is "le francs CFA". Change's rate between €uros and Francs CFA is constant: 1€ is equal to 655.957CFA, this means 1000CFA is equal to 1.524€.

Most of the hotels will accept credit cards like VISA or MASTER CARD, but restaurents will accept only change.

You will find many ATM and bank offices close to the conference center.

Taxi

Few compagnies propose individual "Taxi compteur" downtown :

• Taxi Jaune (Tel: 5030 3030)
• Allo Taxi (Tel: 6666 9999)
• Chic Taxi (Tel: 5041 0202)
• City Cab (Tel: 6466 7171)

But if you prefer, you can always call out a green "cab" in the street and shared it with others. It's less expensive and more "local".

Restaurants

Many restaurants are in the vicinity the conference place. Most of the proposed dishes are european and african.