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Travel Blogs from Segou, Mali
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Segou and the... leaking... bus
... bus to Burkina Faso (the alternative to this backtracking being, again, waiting at a junction. Still not the best plan, I think, so to Segou we go! Uneventful journey there - makes a change! - and not much to report from the town itself either... except I ...
Memories from Mali part 2
... , L'Esplanade, enjoying pizza and apple soda for a last dinner together. The next day brought another relaxing day for us in Segou while we hugged Milagros goodbye as she traveled to Bamako for a meeting. Another three days on the road (but not nearly as ...
Sur le Niger and More
... happy the whole time getting to share our city with the other PCVs. Fast forward to this past week, I spent in Segou ville about 5-6 hours from Sikasso for the annual music festival, Le Festival Sur le Niger. First I spent a couple of days with ...
de Bamako à Ségou
Ségou, ancienne capitale de l'Empire Bambara, a été une importante ville de garnison au temps de la Colonie. On y trouve de très beaux bâtiments de cette époque, bien restaurés et dont les habitants sont fiers. Grandes avenues bordées ...
Vie le long du fleuveNiger
Segou petite ville touristique, ou on peut prendre une pirogue pour visiter des villages le long du fleuve ...
Sébougou, January 2, 2009 - Friday
When after what to me looked like less than an hour we pulled over by the roadside again, I was convinced it was just another scheduled stop-over. And I was happy for it. I greeted every opportunity to stretch my legs and sniff around whatever place we ...
Ségou, January 4, 2009 - Sunday
... Frenchman turned back to me: „He says in two hours.“ Hmmm. What did it mean hear in Africa? Based on my experienced in Mali, it meant next to nothing. OK, maybe those STV guys were more reliable than the rest of the bunch so far, but I was ...
Memories from Mali part 1
... nbsp; After a good nights sleep, we were ready to start the day off right. Wrong. We missed the first bus to Segou, Mali (7am). The tickets had actually sold out the night before. We had to wait until the next bus (2pm) was leaving. But it ...
Ségou, January 2, 2009 - Friday
... to my liking. Flat tyre or busted wheel was something you could occasionally see in Europe, too. Maybe a bit less often than in Mali, but such things happened wherever there were roads and motor vehicles. Instead, I preferred watching guys on top of buses ...
Our introduction to Mali is pretty good
... as we were expecting to have to hang around till Monday to get the visa, then get a plane to Timbuctou. Now decide to leave for Segou, a much smaller town, tomorrow, where we can take it easy for a day or two while we get over the jetlag and lack of ...
Festival sur le Niger
We had a great time at festival sur le niger in Segou, a town around 3 hours east of Bamako. The setting on the banks on the river Niger was really stunning and we enjoyed lots of live music and dancing from loads of different groups. The locals go ...
Ségou, January 3, 2009 - Saturday
... fell into decline, always being an important trading centre. Today it’s also the centre of what is probably Mali’s agriculturally most important region, spearheading efforts to boost crops production by putting the water of the Niger river to ...
Mali
... lit by the erratic blue light escaping from the bars of the welders hut, momentary loss of psychic bearings, searing dislocation. Niger/Mali border crossing takes 15 solid hours, me paying extra to sit in the front seat of a 4WD while 27 Mailians ...
Segou, Mali, November 7, 2007
... fact of life in dealing with authorities. We found one such example of friendliness and lack of corruption as we left Segou. Halfway down a crowded street we all realized the crowds were signaling to the drivers they were going the wrong way ...
Going wild
As any overcrowded and urbanized capital city, Bamako is not able to provide a fair insight into its country. It is therefore about time to go east and discover Mali's countryside, in particular its baobabs, hut villages, red roads and flat ...
Walking 25km to get to a phone
... an hour north of Bamako to meet a "Village Phone Operator" but inshalah we headed 300 km in the opposite direction somewhere past Segou and many Bilbao trees. This town was about 47km from a base station (cell phone tower) and was cut off from the ...
Quickie!
... the guys had organised a cake and a band played at the hotel- very Ali Farka Toure. As expected he music has got better in Mali, and should get better still with Bamako coming up. Anyway I'm going to get off as I need to eat before a trip to a pottery ...
Mar 24, 2011
The Faded Splendour of Ségou
... early morning arrival in Bamako, and a quick sleep in the hotel, we made our way up to Ségou, the former colonial outpost. Segou is a town of faded splendour, but the town is a bustle of activity – especially along the river. Angela and I ...
Bogolan – mud-cloths
... war gar nicht so schwierig wie wir anfangs dachten. Und die Grenzkontrollen nahmen auch nicht mehr als knapp 2 Stunden in Anspruch ;) Segou liegt am Niger und der Fluss dient zum Wäschewaschen, als Viehtränke aber auch zum Baden. Und bietet unglaublich ...
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