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Africa » Mali » North-East January 11th 2011

Our trip actually started on Christmas Day when we left Bamako (still minus luggage and particularly worrying - Michael's medicine) and drove to Segou. It is about 240km east of Bamako and sits on the Niger River - the trip took us most of the day - a good opportunity for our group to get to know each other. We stopped for Christmas lunch on the side of the road and had bread, goat and watermelon. Merry Christmas - we all commented that we usually had watermelon for Christmas at home. It was a really quiet spot and slowly the kids from the village started to come closer to us. The boys are a bit more adventurous than the girls and as they became more confident, they crept closer and helped finish off our lunch and ... read more
Our hotel Segou
River view of Segou
Lazy trip up the river on Christmas Day

Africa » Mali » North-East August 20th 2008

so I havent written much about it, but in mali I got quite a few times in trouble. not BIG trouble, but getting there... in bamako as well as in mopti it got to a point where at least five people wanted to beat the shit out of me, and thats not good cause I dont think I could beat the shit out of an ant without help. so when I got back of relax that was dogon country, I decided that it was a good ending for mali and thought: fuck mali, Im never coming back to this country where the annoy the tourists so much. but well, there was a night bus going to hombori, and I always had a love for night buses, and it wasd fairly cheap, and I had heard I ... read more
rafael, front view
rafael, side view




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