Mopti, Mali Travel Blogs

Well here we are in mopti - just! after an ...
Feb 15, 2003 (5 photos)

... the boat made an occasional stop at night in a remote village. The children went between the bamboo poles - lovely! Our arrival in Mopti seemed to be delayed later and later and then just as we were getting desperate to leave the boat, it broke down. ...

Mopti
Aug 12, 2007

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Mopti and the melting bus
Jun 24, 2009

... 't skipping, was basically two people screaming at each other in Bamana (the other official language)! Destination of that awful journey = Mopti. I'm here but now I'm not sure where I'm going next. It's a nice little town, and it happens to have the nicest ...

From Snowy Bristol to Hot Hot Mali
Feb 26, 2009 (16 photos)

... to find some sort of horizontal snooze position for the next 5 hours until our 3am check in for the flight to Mopti in Mali. Not too much success with sleep, despite the bottle of wine thoughtfully brought along by Steve and Sue. But a fascinating  ...

Stranded in Mopti
Jan 10, 2006

... Sahara) in a very understated but yet spectacular way(makes no sense, I know). I also saw camels all over once in Mali. Once in Mopti, the troubles began. I looked the the Mission Catholique, which was recommended in my Lonely Planet as a place to stay, ...

Mopti : premier passage
Feb 17, 2008

Il n'y aura pas de photos au premier passage de Mopti car GG s'est fait "tirer" son appareil en plein marché de la ville. Il est vexé et furieux. Désolés !! On attend la livraison express d'un nouvel appareil photo pour continuer nos reportages. Ca tombe bien ...

La pinasse: le retour!
Feb 25, 2008 (20 photos)

Ca y est , nous sommes de retour à Mopti avant le départ pour la frontiére Burkinabé. Deux jours de promenade nonchalente sur le fleuve(dermerd...vous pour trouver lequel) au fil de l'eau avec quelques ensablements de la pinasse au gré des bancs de sable, ...

Fleuve Niger
Dec 26, 2008

... . Je ne regrette pas ce choix car le desert avec les montagnes etaient tres jolies. Et on avait beaucoup d ane qui dormaient sur la route... Je suis resté une journée a Mopti et chance pour 6 euros dans le dortoir j avais acces a la piscine de l hotel.

erins to best and worst list
Sep 22, 2009 (6 photos)

the best : 1 -  camping under the stars in small villages along the niger under mosquito net 2- turbans-in northern mali the sahara is hot and sand everywhere= turbans rule ! 3-  nescafe and eggs- i became best friends with the live chickens ...

Mud Mosques and the comedian guide
Apr 19, 2009 (2 photos)

... off to the town of Mopti. It will be our base while we prepare and visit the iconic town of Timbuktu in the coming days. Mopti is on the Niger river and also has a quite amazing mud mosque, not to mention the big business in town being tourism and boat ...

Day 2: Trip to Mopti
Jan 12, 2007 (5 photos)

... where you are, the sense of place is supplanted by the sense of planet. So it is on the 600km hop from Bamako to Mopti: 9hrs of greenery, forest, parkland, sahel, savannah and finally, sand.   5.30pm, Mopti The banks of the Niger, it turns out, ...

Day 14: Capitaine Cook
Jan 24, 2007 (5 photos)

... finally depart we relent and throw them our empty water bottles, which spark a mini-riot. We briefly run aground, 1hr from Mopti, but arrive with the setting sun at 6.30pm. After 4 days without a wash, the shower is gratefully received back at YPDP, ...

Day 3: Mopti Business (make or break!)
Jan 13, 2007 (5 photos)

... Deux 12.30pm and Seckdolo saunters up complete with face scars. I think 'get tae fuck', but we start to talk and he offers a 1hr Mopti tour for 2,000cfa. As it opens up the photo ops, I agree. What a day! He takes me all over (places I would never have ...

Day 9: The Road to Timbuktu?
Jan 19, 2007 (3 photos)

10am, Mopti After beer rendezvous at YPDP the night before, Adam (actor, 25, Wood Green), Richard (trainee medic, 25 and a bit, Tooting) and myself, head out to do business. We call at my reserve boat first and discuss change of plan á ...

Leaving Mopti...
Jun 29, 2009

... choice of name by the way, not mine. I don't know what his actual name is. Anyway, Coolboy was on my first day in Mopti, just another really annoying guide - I do believe it was him I was hiding from when I escaped into an internet cafe to write the last ...

Uj ev uj elmeny...
Jan 1, 2005 (5 photos)

... hazat, togu-na, itt meg talalkoztunk idos urakkal is, akik epp 'gyultek' :-), osztogattuk a maradek colonut-ot... Irany Mopti... Aly szerzett meg egy kocsit Bandiagara-ig, ahol remeltuk, hogy kapunk buszt Mopti-ba... Mig varakoztunk Bandiagara-ban, ...

les nouveaux sont arrivés
Feb 20, 2008 (13 photos)

... l'ordinateur pour faire les commentaires et un qui écrit . 1/ ça va ça vaaa. 2/ on va essayer de vous décrire l'aéroport de Mopti et la livraison des bagages. On vous mettra les photos plus tard. Mais on peut essayer de décrire les chariots chargés plus haut ...

PIROQUE RIDE ON THE BANI RIVER
Jan 30, 2007

Shift to a clean hotel.  Have a nice little ride at dusk in a little boat(piroque)at the confluence of the Bani and Niger Rivers.

Vacation to Burkina Faso and Mali
Aug 8, 2005

... to Timbuktu and then winds through southern Niger and empties into the Ocean from Nigeria. Because of this major transportation route, Mopti has a lively market full of fish, local wares, and salt slabs that are taken from the desert north of Timbuktu by ...

Into Dogon Country
Dec 23, 2004

The next morning, I made up my mind - I was going to go with Hamadou, even though I did feel that the number of choices I'd had for a guide was slightly limited. When he came back we set down to write out a contract detailing the towns along the falaise ...

Day 8: Back to Reality (sort of)
Jan 18, 2007 (5 photos)

... Bandiagara. From there, we hitch in a Toyota pick-up to Sevare. I then cram into a clapped-out Peugot estate for a 20mph crawl to Mopti - and head straight to the shower. You could grow tomatoes in the dirt that washes out of my hair. But all in all it's ...

Vissza Delnek...
Dec 27, 2004 (5 photos)

Reggel eleg keson indultunk, persze nem rank kellett varni :-) Azert a kocsi csak megerkezett, ami Goundamig vitt minket, szoval egyszercsak nekiindultunk... Nem sokaig jutottunk elsore, merthogy a kikotonel kellett varni egy kompra, ami at vitt ...

Egyik orszag itt, a masik ott...
Dec 21, 2004 (10 photos)

... erzesem, hogy most borulunk fel... viszont azzal nyugtatgattam magam, hogy a sofor oreg roka, gondolom nem elso utja Koro es Mopti kozott, ugyhogy tudja mit csinal... Hal'Istennek tenyleg tudta mit csinal... Neha egy egy tehen csorda allt elenkbe, na meg ...

A fish tail or a fish head with your rice?
Jan 14, 2009 (8 photos)

... , our guide, managed to hook us up with another guide, who was organising a trip on a pinasse on the river Niger, travelling from Mopti to Tombouctou over 3 days and 2 nights (camping on the bank of the river). We decidsed to go for it, and woke up ...

We travel Niger River and trek in Dogon Country
Jan 24, 2007 (54 photos)

... ), and some other travellers who have been to the Festival of the Desert, and back by pinasse. Had some "interesting" tales. Friday 19th January Mopti Our guide is supposed to pick us up at 8.30am, but we get a phone call to say he'll be late. Finally ...

Mopti
Aug 2, 2008 (11 photos)

Ya pas de problem, Wally (:

Mopti, Mali, November 8 - 9, 2007
Nov 9, 2007 (68 photos)

... the city's bi-weekly market day.  Their presence, though, didn't detract much from the marvelous menagerie of mankind that Mopti is on market day - colorful markets along the Niger River, piles of dried fish, people peddling their wares from boats on ...

Dogon country
May 16, 2006 (42 photos)

... rice fields. We got lost a couple of times, but ended up in Djenné, a quick look at the mosque and the town, we slept in Mopti. The following day, we met Endé a guide that took us round in some villages of the Dogon country along the cliff. It was very ...

Mali at last
Oct 29, 2007 (2 photos)

Mopti is pretty nice but small you really can see it all in a day.  I saw the mosque and market yesterday and then met some Hausa speakers and ended up spending all day with them.  I got to see a traditional wedding.  It was the third day so ...

Back to Mopti
Apr 12, 2008 (2 photos)