Country Info
- Bamako
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 11,008,518
- Population
- ML
- Country Code
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Sur le Niger and More
... happy new year. We sat drinking tea, making bean eating jokes and scaring small children (really just my doing) way into the evening, Mali is awesome ! By the middle of January, I was heading back to Bamako for our PHASE 4 Training (IST). ...
A night in a Tuareg tent in the desert
... who is with the Peace Corps, working with Malian women in agriculture. She has an impressive grasp of Bambara, the predominant language of Mali, and chats away to Mohamed AlHare about her work. Never mind the wait- we are first on the ferry when it ...
Still Alive (Fr+Pt)
Salut tout le monde. Ce petit mot c'est juste pour vous rassurer, rien de très grave ne m'est arrivé et la boule sur le plan est désactualisée grave car j'ai quitté Bamako le 10, je suis entrée au Sénégal le 12 et je m'apprete à le quitter inch ...
Trash Music (Agadir,Marrocos) (Fr+Pt)
Fr : Tout le monde achète ce genre de K7 avec de la musique marocaine/arabe ou bien le coran dedans. Pas trop mon type de zik, en plus la qualité des enregistrements laisse a désirer, on dirait que tout les chanteurs enregistrent dans leur salle ...
voyage en pays dogon
deux jours sans nouvelle mais nous etions en pays dogon, ils nous avaient promis un train soutenu nous avons eu un train d'enfer!!!!Nous vous raconterons toutes nos aventures dans quelques jours, après les deux prochains jours ou nous naviguerons ...
Djenne
Cette ville est celebre pour sa mosquee contruite par les francais au debut des années 1900. Ce n etait pas la meilleur ville pour feter noel, mais tant pis. De toutefacon j avais des repetitions de la messe de noel dans le pays dogons. Une messe avec ...
Quelques conseils pour la douche-wc mauritanienne
QUELQUES CONSEILS POUR LA DOUCHE-WC MAURITANIENNE LE HAUT DE GAMME La douche-wc mauritanienne de haut de gamme est individuelle et donne dans la chambre. La porte s'ouvre et se ferme comme une porte. La pomme de douche ...
MINI-BUS FRUSTRATION
Attempt to travel by mini-bus to Bandiagara, 1 hour away. Wait 4 hours for min-bus to fill up(eg 23 people) and eventually 4 foreigners including me buy 4 extra tickets so as to end the wait. Reach Bandiagara and book 2 day, 1 night trip into ...
Tibra Streaks & Squeaks Her Way Across Dogon Count
... ;‘s old-age knee. only to find out that our first day trek was a grand total of 3 kilometers along a flat road. Trekking in Mali must be like beauty- it’s all in thee eye of the beholder?? Our guide for Dogon Country has only one gear and that ...
Troubleshooting with the Tuareg in Timbuktu
Just enough time to scrub off my desert sun tan and we were rushed off to the offices of the Mayor of Timbuktu for an official welcome. Everyone had been waiting for us as we were late, so we quickly sat down and the formal greetings began. There ...
MALI'S CASBAH
Take 8 hour bus ride to Djenne--Djenne is an interesting adobe-walled town surrounded by water - known for its famous mud-walled Gran Mosque. Town consists of a warren of alleys which it is easy to get lost ...
Achmed the Camel in a dust storm, thats Timbuktu
... with no flavour or anything else added. A highlight of the day is a visit to the riverside town of Niafunke, the home of legendary Mali blues musician, Ali Farka Toure. We all had a beer in his hotel / restaurant. Most of us went for a swim today, ...
fishin' for food
Hello! I hope a pleasant Holiday season was had by all! I found my way back to Kolda yesterday on the 13 hour car ride from Kedegou with only one slight incident. Tabaski (Jan 10th) is the largest of the Muslim holidays and generally includes the ...
Camels, Crowds and Wish Lists
The magical darkness of the night disappeared with sunrise in the desert. Sand, sand as far as the eye can see. We really are out in the middle of nowhere! In front of our tent is the square concrete block that is the new village school, and ...
Day 0: Arrival at Bamako
For flights from the UK, arrival in Mali is normally at night between 9pm and 3am. Fortunately, I managed to bag a 9pm flight and the airport is fairly low key so exit through the terminal is easy enough (although my visa gets the third degree as I'm ...
So paro no Mali
O kota ia até Bamako, todos me disseram que era a maneira mais facil de entrar no Mali para depois ir até ao Burkina. Mas graças (ou por culpa) ao francês em Mbour (Senegal) que me ofereceu o mapa, eu vi que havia outra via, que todos se apressaram a ...
Across the border
... carton of orange juice that I'd bought earlier that day. The next morning I crossed the border without any hassles, and continued on into Mali, and seeing my first camel along the way. I stopped for lunch in a town called Koro, as I needed some decent ...
Day 2: Trip to Mopti
... . All roads lead to Mopti now so it's a case of screw the nut and get on with it. 2.00pm on a bus somewhere in Mali This is less a holiday and more an exercise in scale. When every horizon stretches on forever, without a building, mountain or skyline ...
AMERICAN-RUN REFUGE
Stay in Mac's Refuge--clean little hotel run by an American with Malian missionary connections. Interesting group of travellers---an English group with an elderly lady in her 80's, Penelope; and a couple of sisters from Richmond ...
Suite presidencial (Fr+Pt)
Fr : Celle-ci fût ma chambre pendant plus d'une semaine. Pour étrange que cela puisse paraître, c'était vachement comfortable à l'aide des deux coussins jaunes en premier plan. Pt : Isto foi a minha cama durante mais de uma semana e ...
Emoção maliana
... 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 ...
Day 10: The Stig
The boring day travelling by 4x4 to TMBK2. Not! The jeep turns up bang on time at 7.27am and the great news is there are only four passengers - Richard, Adam and myself and a non-stop talking Catalan travel junkie, fresh off a 73hr train journey from ...
Day 11: Night of 100 Gerbils!
Morning in Timbuktu and we have until 4pm before the desert trek, so we decide to do the tourist thing - photos in front of the town sign, bartering with Touareg and buying the obligatory T-shirt. At 4pm we rock up at the edge of town ...
Day 12: Diré Straits or Siege of the Hippos
Two hours after our morning slug of liquid death, our camels lurch into Timbuktu and we hobble off, rubbing our respective parts, as we go to meet Abou for our connection to Kouriome, and, hopefully, a luxury pinasse. With a three-day voyage (or ...
Encore Sevare
Sevare est un noeud de communication donc on y passe toujours. Sevare n etait qu une etape pour prendre un bus vers Bamako. Pas de chance quand on ne part entre 6H et 8H du matin, 10H ou bien 15H on prends les compagnies de bus qui sont pourries et ...
Day 14: Capitaine Cook
A relatively warm night with no animal incidents grants a good night's sleep and we again need to rouse the crew to ensure a 6am start. We're slowly gaining our sea legs but there's a noticeable sway on land when one's eyes are closed. Our ...
c'est au tour des gazelles de partir
et voilà le grand jour tant attendu par M et par moi (MC) est arrivé. Enfin pas tout à fait puisque c'est dans la nuit qui vient (de dimanche à lundi) que nous partons : convocation à Marignane à 1h et décollage prévu à 3h30. Oui du matin, vous ...
Day 5: Kids and Presents
Woken this morning by a gunshot: not at me, fortunately. Had a great night's sleep in the tent after I stopped staring at the stars - unbelievable panorama and I can finally understand what the Greeks thought they could see up there. A quick breakfast ...
Day 3: Mopti Business (make or break!)
Deal Numero Une 10am and I enter negotiations with Boubakar Guindo boukary_guide@yahoo.fr , my prospective guide to Dogon Country. I decide on a 5-day, 4-night duration first as TMBK2 is looking to be off the radar. We agree a route and who pays ...
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 ...