elephant country

ok, so we saw not-a-one, not even any dung...BUT, it was the first time for me to be in real, unartificial elephant territory - i would look out and easily imagine one standing there, flapping its ears... and our excursion into the bush did end up landing us in timboctou - so it wasn't all for naught...

new horizons, literally...

December 27th 2005
Mali is big. I mean REALLY big. One becomes acutely aware of this when travelling from one end of it to the other on a 1985 Yamaha Tenere 600 motorcycle. While it took 'just' two weeks to get from Dakar to the most eastern part of the Niger River in Mali (a dustbowl called ‘Gao’), it seemed to take forever to get back - and moreover, after four weeks on the road (literally) I am afraid I can� ... read more

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The Sudanese Republic and Senegal became independent of France in 1960 as the Mali Federation. When Senegal withdrew after only a few months, what formerly made up the Sudanese Republic was renamed Mali. Rule by dictatorship was brought to a close in... ... read more

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