From Timbuktu to Segou
August 5th 2008 We took the boat. It was great. Slept up on top deck, out in the open. Took 4 nights from Korioume to Segou. Saw a lightning storm attack the river, got beached on sandbanks, played lots of cent-cinquante-et-un (malian card game) in the bar, drank the bar dry twice, ate wonderful galley food, watched dubious Portuguese soaps dubbed in French, had showers in showers that inexplicably went on and of
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