Hotel Djoliba Segou

After Djenné I headed to Segou, purely for the purposes of getting a 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!<br><br>Uneventful journey there - makes a change! - and not much to report from the town itself either... except I checked my e-mail when I was there and had various messages from various people at the chairty I'm ...

Today was the first day that we were able to take it easy. We slept in until 8am! I had one of the coolest church experiences of my life. I could not understand a word but the music was great! It was everything you would imagine you would hear in a church in Africa. The sermon was in French but there was an interpretor that was translating everything into Malians native language, which is Bambara. Ewien was kind enough to translate into English for us as well. It was quite surreal ...

... was that all males sat at one table and the women and children sat at the other. Although the women handle much of the house work, it appears to be a fairly equitable relationship in Daniel's household. Enoch was another gemtlement that was there. They both spoke a little bit of english and Daniel told some great stories. His laugh is so full of life! We reallly had a great time talking about the world. He was so apprciative that we were there to help the ...

... in it should always work and not bring down the system. On another note, there have been 34 babies born at the hospital since we arrived. I can't even count the number of sick babies. It has been great watching the doctors and nurses work with the patients. It is not like any hospital in the states. Things really move at a different pace. Everyone has a lot more patience here. Nobody seems to mind if they have to wait a few ...

We had a great time at festival sur le ***** in Segou, a town around 3 hours east of Bamako. The setting on the banks on the riv** Nig** was really stunning and we enjoyed lots of live music and dancing from loads of diff**ent groups. The locals go mental at diff**ent parts of a 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 ...

... au soleil avec une température de l'ordre de 50°C, - des taxi-brousse hors d'usage dont même la f**raille ne voudrait pas en Europe, surchargés de passag**s avec des gal**ies à plusieurs étages, style gratte ciels newyorkais, - des camions qui marchent en crabe. La première fois qu'on les voit arriv** en face, l'angoisse vous prend car vous êtes c**tains qu'il vous en veut tel Mad Max !! Mais non ça passe à coté, ce n'est que son chassis qui est complètement cass ...

Dream Rating: &nbsp ; ; ; ; ; C+ Background We left Bamako that morning and picked up our passports with visas at the *****ian Embassy on the way out of town. Most of the day was spent on the truck, but we stopped in the late aft**noon for a few hours in a rath** nice but quiet riv**side town on the ***** named Segou. We camped a short distance outside of town in a farmed area and w**e visited in the evening by local ...

... out to explain. Wh**eas in many places corrupt gendarmes would pull White driv**s ov** to fine them for fabricated infractions, h**e wh**e the driv** could have been fined for a legitimate traffic transgression our punishment was that we had to drive back down the street in the right direction and leave the city (via the same traffic circle) by the correct route out of town. We camped that night a short distance ...

... resided there. Perhaps it was the large walled compounds that surrounded each house. Other differences we started to notice were the vast amounts of produce grown in this dry climate, the large number of donkeys used for agricultural purposes, the myriad hand-dug wells &amp; boreholes in the rural communities, and every bathhouse also served as a latrine called nyegan (sp?). We did the village thing - greeting Mila's close friends and host family - and then settled in at her house ...

... off some of the trees making us reminisce our favorite season back home.) The nights have actually gotten so cold that we had to cov** up with blankets, which we didn't previously have, until we went to Mali. As you might have guessed this update is about our adventures to, in, around and back again from Mali. Enjoy. To ov**land to Mali from Ghana, you must first ov**land through Burkina Faso. To do that you need a visa and your WHO card with all your immunization records. And it ...