al-ee-oop!

and up it went! while craig and i were walking along the water assessing the situation, our 'friends' had already hoisted the 600 up onto the truck and were tying it down...craig was dubious...i just held on as the pick-up plunged into the (shallow!) tributary...

3-hour tour: Part IV (finale!)

January 9th 2006
Emerging from the bush: We awoke in Niafunke with a plan for getting safely - forget soundly - back to Douentza (which now seemed like an imaginary haven - save the fact all of our stuff was there!). The night before, I had asked the bargeman to find us someone to follow all the way back to ‘civilization’ - or rather - just to the other side of all of these tributaries (to give you an idea ... 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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