Ayérou
Niger · Africa
About Ayérou
Ayorou is a river-side town in Southwestern Niger. It is three hours from Niamey with a colorful, laid-back Sunday market. It makes either a great day trip or overnight from Niamey.
Ayérou travel guide
Getting there
Ayorou is 206 km (3 hours) north of Niamey on the route past Tillaberi. The bus company Africa Assalaam, just off of Rond Point Yantala on the Tillaberi road, runs shuttles up there from Niamey.
Buy
Etched and painted clay pots Plastic bracelets Colorful painted leather goods including pillow cushions, horse and camel satchels, etc. Fabric Beads and buttons Pure karite (Shea) butter
Sleep
There is one hotel in town, and it is decent, with beautiful river views and shaded areas to have a coke and relax. The hotel has rooms for 10,000 F and up (but if you pay extra for a fan or A/C remember that power generally gets cut at midnight) or you can camp for 3000 F. Camping includes nothing – no tent, mattress, water, or luggage storage. For a different tack, it looks like there is a nice French-run campement on a private island downriver.
1 Hotel Aminokal. (updated Mar 2019)
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.