Hotel Le Relais Bamako

... ll meet up for sure in Montreal post your year travel stint. Have a ball.

Alkayae-thanks for the music and Mopti. Beautiful

Pinasse team and Aljuma-you rock and we love you all

Mac-your food saved us

Patrick-safe travels and hope to see you in Tokyo

Vieux-we'll see you in the States. Thank you for v**y much for opening your home to us.

Pet**-maybe we'll see you in Austin. Let us know if we can help with Pott**s for Peace in Mali

... no entry is allowed for non-muslims.



Continued to Sevare to camp on the roof of a hotel. One thing i've noticed is that in Mali they love to put speed bumps in the most random of places, even on a remote road no where near a town or village.



Dist cov. =315 km

Total dist cov. = 6608.8 km


19th - Free day, some have headed into Mopti and the rest are relaxing in the Hotel or just walking into the Sevare market.

Leaving Mauritania at one of the most remote border crossings in the country is a bit of an adventure. The border crossing south of Nema had seen only 38 people either enter or exit the country all year, that 3 1/2 months. Our group of 28 people took the local Police by surprise, so much so that he did not have the exit stamp for our passports and needed to go home to get one. He also didn't know how to exit the vehicle from the ...

... day, she can only keep a few full time. She is trying to give them a bett** life and teach them reading and writing. Although it looks like they have nothing at all, it is so bett** than the alt**native. The reason we w**e th**e is that Anko had put in a solar system for pow** and since he was in Bamako, he is going to work in the next few days. He does so much for so many people. Aft** the Orphanage visit, we did head to the market in ...

... a few of the laws and regulations. Thankfully they w**e allowed to go with cam**a and memory card still in tact. Aft** a delicious dinn** of savory pancakes (good work Oliv**, T**esa and Kelvin) we ventured off to the campsite bar and enjoyed watching Chelsea win 2-1... or rath** I enjoyed watching Chelsea win... the oth**s w**en't so happy. During the day the oth** truck had arrived so they too joined in the drinking. Aft** a bit we decided to venture into ...

... in the midst of which women sold shrivelled up vegetables, fresh bread rolls were heaped by the dozen, men hacked away at cuts of meat, frying up intestines, ribs and goodness knows what else... all the while being buzzed around by flies galore. We opted for veg lasagne. Bought 50 bread rolls.... good idea until we realised they didn't come in a bag. Got some paper and wrapped them up only for it to last a few metres down the ...

I recently realized that almost half the team I'm going with are repeat goers. The time spent and conversations shared with some of them has painted a clear picture of how different our trip is really going to be. Originally, the plan was to spend the entire two weeks in Bamako. We would return to the school that Global Assistance Partners (GAP) supports and be ...

... impressionnante des légèretés, il m'a appris au fur et à mesure de notre conversation, du décès de son père, du nombre pas possible de personnes qui contaient sur lui pour le solde mensuel qu'il devait repartir de ses propres et maigres gains et de la mort dans le proche avenir de sa mère, récemment annoncée par les médecins, fruit d'un cancer du estomac qu'on lui a découvert à la suite d'une intervention chirurgical pour un autre problème de résolution beaucoup plus simple ...

... mambos. Agora preciso de alguém que me deixe usar a internet por uma boa horita para finalmente poder começar a fazer o upload desta bodega. Estou a dormir no terraço com um mosquiteiro preso ao chao com 4 cadeiras, mas não muito fiavel pois hoje acordei a olhar para um mosquito e podia ver no seu ventre translucido a grande carga sanguinea, certamente minha, que ele carregava. Teve de a devolver imediatamente (piparote certeiro) e viu o seu ciclo encurtado. Cabrão.