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Mopti
Having spent the night at Segou we wanted to stop off at Djenne en route to Mopti. We knew we wouldn't see the town on a market day (Monday) but still found ourselves a guide at the ferry. As the river was so low the crossing took only minutes and we drove another half kilometre to where the river reaches at the end of the rainy season in September …
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Niger River – Das Leben am Fluss
... beiden Tagen drei bis vier Dorfspaziergänge mit unserem Guide unternommen. Dabei haben wir in jedem auch noch so kleinen Dorf eine Moschee gesehen. Das spezielle aber waren die Dorfkinder. Die gibt es überall in rauhen Mengen und sie sind extrem anhänglich! Will heissen, sie kommen sofort angerannt und wollen einem die Hand schütteln oder einem gleich Händchen haltend auf dem ganzen Spaziergang begleiten. Dies kann dann auch ...
Dried fish and big mud mosques
... benches and then filled with 29 people, including 3 small weeing children, a live chicken, 3 bags of rice and half a kitchen in cooking pans. Taxi bush is quicker to say though. Djenne itself was pretty interesting, lots of mud architecture (honestly better than it sounds), a bored but informative guide, and a large market consisting mostly of dried fish and small led torches from china. There are Sudanese style ...
Mopti, January 12, 2009 - Monday
... a non-issue. Everybody else started pragmatically pushing into the vehicle and taking their seats.
So I got in as well.
Yes, everything considered, my three seats did buy me a relative luxury. Particularly compared to how I’d travelled to Essakane and back. I shook hands with Guele, he asked me to remember him and recommend him to „any“ of my friends who might want to visit Mali one day, and my trip back to Burkina Faso finally ...


