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Place in Burkina Faso
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Pô is in the Volta Delta region of Burkina Faso. Pô is mostly of interest as a starting point for excursions in Gurunsi country. You can go to the Kaboré Tambi national park, to the Nazinga game ranch, and visit many villages with original architecture, such as Tiébélé, Tiakané, Tangassoko, Kaya, and Guelwongo.
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Town square.
A , this set of buildings is a former royal court from the 16th century. The hut of the chief of Tiébélé, built in the pure kassena tradition and remaining intact, has become a sort of "living museum" that can be visited by paying an entrance fee to the Association that was created to manage this place, maintain it and perpetuate the traditional paintings.
Parc national Kaboré-Tambi
Formerly the Pô National Park, it was renamed the "Kaboré Tambi" Park in tribute to a Water and Forests agent who was murdered in 1981 by a poacher. This park was long known for its large herds of elephants. Because of heavy poaching, the Kaboré-Tambi Park has few large mammals left. The park covers 15,000 hectares. You can see a wide variety of monkeys, warthogs and antelopes.
This ranch, with an area of more than 100,000 hectares, is now a nature reserve. By travelling its 600 km of tracks, you will encounter many elephants, a wide variety of antelopes (sable antelopes, hartebeests, cobs, oribis, bushbucks and duikers), monkeys (cynocephali, patas, grivets), warthogs and more rarely buffaloes, wild animals (lions, panthers, hyenas) and crocodiles. This protected forest is dominated by large species such as baobabs, caïcédrats and immense fromagers.
Pô is 176 km south of Ouagadougou on the asphalted N5 highway south to Ghana. You can get in by car or bus.
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