Christmas Day in Mali Segou
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 watermelo
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