Hotel Des Roses Mopti
BP 152, Commercial center Mopti Mopti, Mali
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Mopti Again
... museum yet – an excellent exhibition on the Sahalian Sudanese architecture so defining of the region. This style reached its artistic pinnacle with the construction of the great mosques of Djenne, Timbuktu and Mopti.
On Tuesday the party split, with Pete and I heading to a country many people have never heard of: Burkina ...
Mopti, January 12, 2009 - Monday
... them as such. But friendship can reach beyond that.
And to his credit, Guele appeared almost on time. Considering that this was Africa, he was right on time. Translated into Swiss terms, this would probably qualify as „to the second".
He took me to a place not far from water tower and his office, and told me that there I could get my bush taxi to Koro. Of course, as almost always in Mali, the taxi would go “as soon as it was ...
Mopti, January 11, 2009 - Sunday
... at times it felt as if a trailer just with spare tyres in tow would be an indispensable part of our overall equipment. So they didn’t replace this one. With what? They just tinkered with it in this arcane do-it-yourself way of African road heroes and after a while declared we were ready to resume our trip.
We could only hope it would be the last one.
And miraculously, the last one it was, indeed.
The ride back to ...
Voyage to Timbuktu: (the real adventure BEGINS)
... in Timbuktu.
It was the 24th (March) now and we had just returned to Mopti from Pays Dogon. Ali was nice enough to wait till I checked in the hotel and then took me for a small tour of Mopti. He first took me to a local fisherman whose pirogue was leaving for Kourioume (15 km from Timbuktu) the next day. The fisherman guaranteed me he will get me over to Kourioume in 3 days – i.e. we would depart the next morning (Thursday) & I would be in Timbuktu by Saturday. ...
Mopti, January 6, 2009 - Tuesday
... it pretty much suited me to get in the working gear only by degrees. I enjoyed the temperature which was still hovering only around 20°C, or even a tad below, while I could. Ibrahima kept his jacket on for it was too cool for his liking. Later on, sun would inevitably climb up and temperature would rise. That would be the part of the day for Ibrahima to come into his own, and I would start suffering. But right now it really felt good.
It wasn’t like the two of us ...
