Sikasso, Mali Travel Blogs

Sikasso ville
Aug 29, 2006 (1 photos)

... but I wanted to share the big news with everyone that i found out my site today. i will be in Sikasso city which is a regional capital in the south of Mali. It is the biggest city outside of the capital and is known as being one of the greenest areas in ...

Oh Mali
Nov 7, 2006

... . Tim is a Water Sanitation volunteer and Michele is a Health volunteer. They are living in a small town a couple of hours from Sikasso Ville. They were planning on coming in for a couple of days and get back to their village in time for Fete, but of ...

Whos Who in Sikasso Ville
Nov 7, 2006 (2 photos)

... of the important people in my life here in Sikasso Ville. As Ive mentioned before I am living here in Sikasso Ville, one of Mali's eight regional capitals. My service (the organization I am placed with) is the Centre Regional Pour la Promotion de L' ...

Making friends
Nov 7, 2006

... fruit. First I thought about things that she is interested in and started talking to her about them. And low and behold even in Mali, women are still interested in clothes and cooking. I told her about my tailor and how frustrated I have been with him for ...

introducing Boo
Oct 31, 2006 (3 photos)

... prepare to be shocked by malilan cuteness. I introduce Boo, my new puppy and well the new thing in my life here in Mali. He is a handful waking up at 5 every morning which is preceeded with about 2 hours of high energy jumping and playing around. He is ...

Thats PCV from now on
Oct 3, 2006 (6 photos)

Dear friends i a, writing from the beautiful city of Sikasso where I have just been installed along with 13 new volunteers. I got here on Sunday night after a 6 hour bus ride in the dirtiest bus I have ever been in. After we got off, we were all covered ...

Namasa Thursday
Mar 12, 2007

During one of our health sessions during training, the regional doctor of West Africa Peace Corps programs came to talk to us about taking our malaria provolaxsus, STDs and confirm that yes any woman you see in a bar past 10pm is a prostitute so don't be ...

a day in the life
Dec 13, 2006 (8 photos)

... been told that I need to write a bit more and well give folks a better idea of what my life is like here in Sikasso, Mali.   I guess I should start off with the weekdays or better yet, how about my favorite time of the day which would have to be ...

Sur le Niger and More
Feb 5, 2007 (4 photos)

... 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 Tim and Michele which I am ...

Emoção maliana
Nov 28, 2008

... pour le reste de ma vie. Je suis retourné avec Morgan Freeman, complètement ému, presque en larmes. A travessia pelo Mali depois de ter feito outros paises da Africa Ocidental fez-me venerar ainda mais esse povo, converteram-me involuntariamente num ...

Birthday in Mali
Dec 13, 2006 (5 photos)

... country and there is so much to see and be able to do.   Yesterday; I celebrated my 23rd birthday with my Sikasso team mates at a BBQ we were invited to by some US military consultants training Malian soldiers in UN Peace Keeping missions. I know ...

Confessions of a city girl
Oct 14, 2006 (6 photos)

... of patience so I am preparing for that. Lastly, Diane really wants a brochure about the Centre and another about artisans in Sikasso. I am excited to learn more about the services and hope that the programs will be helpful to them. In all i think this ...

Koloko, December 26, 2008 - Friday
Nov 6, 2009 (12 photos)

... and one of the first lessons was time. By the time when according to my optimistic reckoning we would have been in Sikasso and already taken a pleasant stroll around the town, we only reached the border. Seemingly in the middle of nowhere, without any ...

Sikasso, December 26, 2008 - Friday
Nov 10, 2009

... He seemed a bit disappointed, but I didn’t think Naprisca and I had much choice. There was a lot to see in Mali and a longer stay in Sikasso would only take time which would be better spent elsewhere. Besides, I had to keep in mind the fact that she ...

Herenakono, December 26, 2008 - Friday
Nov 7, 2009 (11 photos)

... dragged on. Much more than I would’ve liked it. At one point I realised that there would be nothing of our sightseeing in Sikasso. If I wanted to see the town, we’d have to stay on for a day longer than planned. The sun was well on its way ...

Sikasso, December 27, 2008 - Saturday
Nov 11, 2009 (5 photos)

... then clearly it was best that it had happened here. The locals had put one of the last stands against French colonial army in Sikasso before it fell to European colonisers, same as the rest of the country, at the end of the nineteenth century. The French ...