http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Mali en-us Fri, 04 Dec 09 10:52:38 +0000 Fri, 04 Dec 09 10:52:38 +0000 Nous disions donc que notre priple tait loin d'tre termin...Aprs ce calvaire routier entre Bandiagara et Svar qui devait en fait tre BandiagaraMopti notre msaventure continue... En effet pour ajouter nos malheurs on se rend compte que ce que l'on croyait tre un arrt temporaire pour notre scurit Svar s'est en fait transform en arrt final. Pire on ose nous demander le http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/blog-451412.html BandiagaraDe overgang van Bamako naar Bandiagara is te vergelijken met Amsterdam gt Sittard .Bandiagara is een centrumplaats in de regio het land van de Dogon zoals de reisbureaus en de gidsen het noemen. Maar Bamako is de hoofdstad.Het verschil is te merken aan het aantal autorsquos nauwelijks in Bandiagara teveel in Bamako de prijzen het aantal banken geen in Bandiagara en vooral http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/blog-445748.html A Bamako nous avons encore eu droit a un accueil cinq etoiles alors qursquoun autre collegue de Kim Ernest un ivoirien installe a Bamako depuis qq annees et sa fille de 11 ans Dominique nous attendaient a lrsquoaeroport. Nous sommes arrives chez lui apres un long detour en raison du trafic cause par les celebrations entourant la fete de lrsquoindependance du Mali. Nous avions a peine m http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/blog-440580.html Inzwischen bin ich in Mali angekommen und bin nun wieder in Bamako wo ich vor drei einhalb Monaten aus Suedafrika angekommen bin Und von hier aus geht es auch schon sehr bald wieder zurueck dorthin und zwar in ziemlich genau 7 Stunden. Da ich viel zu wenig Elan habe um mir noch eine Runde Bamako anzuschauen was sowieso nicht superspektakulaer ist vor allem sonntags kommt nun stattdessen no http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/blog-440158.html Hallo Toch maar een blog haha op het toetsenbord zit geen punt dus bij deze is dat Ik ben via Casablanca naar Bamako gevlogen Ik heb vanaf het vliegveld een trein genomen naar een buitenwijk van Casablanca het centrum was de bedoeling Ik vond de stad heel bijzonder hitte en uitgeputte mensen die nog de laatste etenswaren kopen bij stalletjes langs de weg voor het breken van het vasten h http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/District-of-Bamako/Bamako/blog-433866.html One hundred ten degrees. I summon the strength to walk towards the hole. This hole is surrounded by dried mud walls. The hole is full of animated rice some kind of colony of small white worms. One hundred ten degrees. I squat over the hole with beads of sweat rolling down my face and into my eyes. Red dust brutally swirls in the air and sticks to my face. My throat is sore from breathing http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/blog-433655.html So I took a boat to Timbuktu.Not alot happenedWe got into the boat fought for our places almost won a very large section and then lost half of it but only because we decided being jerks to a nice Spanish couple wasnt the best way to start a 3 day boat trip. Good decision they ended up being really nice people.There were also 3 Catalonians and a hand full of French people AND lots of locals. L http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/North-West/Timbuktu/blog-427336.html Roughly what is in my journalJuly 29 Road To MoptiWow met up with Maarte. Saw him walk by my restaurant shortly after writing my last joural entry. We went to the National Museum in Bamako but not inside because the ticket guy wouldnt give us change. I showed him the markets and in general just did some catching up. He was sick also ad had only started to recover. I feel almost completely reco http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/Dogon-Country/Mopti/blog-426110.html tourism in Mali this is a good and bad thing.I have had a long break from this thing for multiple reasons. The main one being I have been very busy.I spent 4 days hiking in Dogon Country which was amazing could be heaven on earth.Also spent two days on a crappy bus for what was supposed to be a 7 hour bus ride.And today I spent all day in Djenne where the world famous Great Mosque made of mud http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/Dogon-Country/Mopti/blog-425691.html Hello from BamakoWow was it ever pleasent and hellish to get here.No good direct transport through Guinea so I had to hop bush taxis.First one was really easy Conakry to Mamou.Only real stories from this are the asshole cops who want bribes threaten me with arrest for holding someone elses passport they said i didnt look like my picture and there were lots of police check points too.The same d http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/District-of-Bamako/Bamako/blog-422387.html Well Irsquom in Djenne to see the market and the Mosque. I spent Saturday looking around Mopti with Anil. These wouldbe guides are very very annoying They really detract from the Mali experience. Bought a ticket to go to Djenne by boat. Stupidly I paid in advance because the next day the boat turned out to be bogus Down 4000CFA. Oh well after a long wait caught a bush taxi to Djenne. Met a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/Centre/Djenne/blog-416981.html Back in Mopti after a five day hike through Dogon Country with Anil and our guide Ibrahim1 JulySo this lazy day was spent in the pool talking to unattractive British girls and getting soaked in the rain. Anil and I met Ibrahim in the evening. We finalised our plan. Wersquoll be traveling with two French girls. Sweet Right2 JulyWhen we got to Bandingara there was no sign of the French girls. W http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/Dogon-Country/Mopti/blog-415597.html Well another night out with Yousouf and Arnaud last night. Met a Colonel in the Malian Army who seemed to like me and hooked me up with contacts in Timbuktu. Also hersquos a good contact to have. Yousouf finally let me pay for a round not that I was trying too hard to and also gave me a CD. An early rise a bit rough and I was on the bus all day. I actually met Anil on the bus which was good http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/Dogon-Country/Mopti/blog-413517.html Well Yousouf is quite the quite the partier His lawyer friend Arnaud took me to a bar where Yousouf met us after picking up Anil and the Nigerian kid Raymond wersquod met the night before. We proceeded to pound rsquoem back on Yousoufrsquos tab including supper. It was the most Irsquove drank since Canada I was somewhat loaded man my tolerance is low Anil also hooked Anil up wit http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/District-of-Bamako/Bamako/blog-413516.html The bus trip finally ended after some more great hospitality the guy next to me shared his dinner with me and let me use his cell. The Malian boarder guards want plenty of bribes. We had to pass a hat around the bus to collect for them. It was too late when I arrived to get a hold of Baidoursquos uncle Yousouf whorsquos supposed to look after me so I spent last night in a hotel. I slept unt http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/District-of-Bamako/Bamako/blog-413514.html Kurzes Update noch immer mali noch immer bamako. mehrere erfolglose versuche mit meiner visakarte an geld zu kommen die einzige bank wo das moeglich ist hat freitag mittag zugemacht. heisst also zwei weitere tage bamako. und dann montag mittag so schnell wie moeglich was hier in mali wohl so ziemlich alles heissen kann weiter in richtung conakry. gestern abend gabs unglaeubige blicke als ich http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/District-of-Bamako/Bamako/blog-410558.html Bienvenue und herzlich Willkommen schoen dass du den Weg zu meinem Blog gefunden hast hoffentlich gefaellt es dir Hier werde ich die naechsten 78 Monate versuchen mehr oder weniger regelmaessig mitzuteilen wie es sich hier so lebt. Momentan heisst 'Hier' Bamakok die Hauptstadt von Mali wo ich seit vorgestern bin. Morgen oder uebermoren werde ich von Mali in Richtung Guinea aufbrechen und http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/District-of-Bamako/blog-410122.html In Bamako we took a box of a room the kind dead bodies might be found in come morning and I think you could even say we relaxed. Certainly we slowed down. Road travel in the Gambia and Senegal had drained our energy and we were flat like pancakes emergency Bring on the Vietnamese food Castel beers and glowing riverside sunsets Seriously there is nothing like beef Saigonese style and a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/blog-405895.html I'm introducing our company NTWO Electronics a Dubai based company an authorise dealerdistributor of leading brands of metalgold detectors here in Middle East and parts of Africa since 2001. We are offering good prices as low as manufacturers price and there is a possibility of negotiation for discounts base on the quantity of sales order. To name a few we have Minelab GPX 4500 Lorenz Dee http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/blog-403825.html The Dogon is incrediblehellip Irsquom not going to waste time trying to explain the awesome hiking adventure we had there. Words cannot do this magnificent beauty justice. So Irsquoll let my pictures do most of the talking Our basic schedule from Sunday afternoon until Tuesday Afternoon composed of hiking the land visiting the villages meeting the locales sleeping on rooftops watching t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mali/Dogon-Country/blog-395412.html