Gao
Travel Blogs from Gao, Mali
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Settled In
... reach this point where you are able to write; it also takes a certain temperature. Like I've written before, when I first got to Gao, I couldn't think or reflect on anything other than the searing heat. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon when the heat is so ...
seatbelt for driver only ¨hahahahaha¨
... , you can't go wrong with the following selection. Toumani Diabaté Djelika (Hannibal / Rykodisc, 1995) One of Mali's greatest kora players, Toumani Diabaté has recently made big news with his cross-cultural collaborative projects, working first ...
Welcome to the Height of HOT season in Gao
... , but I'm taking it a day at a time. Between the sand, heat, and the kids still call me annassara, it sometimes does feel like I'm still in Chad. Send mail! Gao gets mail very quickly! PCV, Kimberly Seibel Corps de la Paix B.P. 119 Gao, MALI WEST ...
Gaolloween
I met some really cool Mali PCVs in Accra so I decided to go to a Halloween party they were having in Gao. It's about as close as I could possibly get to being back in Niger without actually crossing the border. Aside from the party ...
Sleep, boat cruises, sand dunes and dancing
... 't recognise (hey, it was dark for most of the evening) are complete practical jokers and were really nasty to me. Even in Mali, people take the piss out of poor naive innocent little moi... They did name me Leila, though - meaning the night in Arabic ...
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