Segou, Mali Travel Blogs

Segou and the... leaking... bus
Jul 1, 2009

... 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
Nov 14, 2006 (5 photos)

... , 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
Feb 5, 2007 (4 photos)

... 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
Feb 15, 2008 (15 photos)

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 de caïlcédrats, ...

Festival sur le Niger
Jan 31, 2009 (8 photos)

... song, and jump up dancing, especially the women, they really love to dance! see the pics. We stayed with a local family in Segou which was really good fun, if a bit stressful at times! They were so welcoming and really kind to us, including getting us ...

Vie le long du fleuveNiger
Dec 24, 2008

Segou petite ville touristique, ou on peut prendre une pirogue pour visiter des villages le long du fleuve niger

Memories from Mali part 1
Nov 9, 2006

... 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 ...

Warren Goes to New York City and Ends Up In Cairo
Nov 8, 2007 (17 photos)

... , but we stopped in the late afternoon for a few hours in a rather nice but quiet riverside town on the Niger named Segou.  We camped a short distance outside of town in a farmed area and were visited in the evening by local Bambara tribesmen.  ...

map pin
Jan 16, 2007

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Our introduction to Mali is pretty good
Jan 16, 2007 (14 photos)

... 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 sleep. ...

Segou, Mali, November 7, 2007
Nov 7, 2007 (25 photos)

... 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 down ...

Mali
Jan 26, 2005

... painted canoes. Watching the world slide past and not saying a thing. Mopti then Djenne then Mopti again then Ségou. Rivers, architechre, elderly french package tourists with phallic cameras that require two hands to carry, guides everywhere, rip off ...

Segou
Apr 8, 2008 (1 photos)

 

COS Trip
Dec 25, 2005

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