Le Faro Segou

... was about 11.30, at this point).<br><br>Sooo that was an, erm, interesting night, mostly spent with the girl sitting next to me asleep with her head on my knee and me being very, very glad that I'd fully charged my MP3 player that morning (ahhh Simon and Garfunkel, Belle and Sebastian, you got me through the night...)!<br><br>I'd been told it takes ages to get anywhere in Africa. I didn't thinki anyone meant ti takes QUITE so long!!<br>

... proved to myself and hopefully others that one person can make a difference! I would do this again anytime, anywhere. This will be my last entry from Africa. We leave tomorrow mornimg for Bamako. We fly out at 11:45pm. We will stop at the market in Segou to buy a few things to take home with us. It will be a long journey. I will make sure and post pictures from the market when I get back. I will miss the people here but I am ready to get back to my family! It is time to come home.

... The meal consisted of rice with onion sauce, plantains, chicken, potatoes and something I could not identify. Everything was fantastic. People really drink a lot of beverages in bottles here. There are no cans in sight. Besides coke, we also had Malian tea. This tea was the best tea I have ever had. We are not sure but it appears that the oldest receives the tea first as it is served and every male at the table drinks some. The configuration of the ...

... upgrade power at some of the house of the people here that work at the hospital. It is amazing how he has to think through what appliance is critical and plan the electrical system accordingly. For example, he decided that water heaters are not as critical so he designed a system that would run the non-critical electric items on a different part of the system. It is amazing how much I really take for granted that if I plug ...

... is from the Netherlands and he and his wife have been a great host. While I am typing this blog we are actually watching the movie Better Off Dead on the projector. This week there is also a team of Doctor's from Oregon and a Construction crew from Ohio working at the hospital. It is great to see so much activity helping people that need so much. Today we visited the Market to try and buy some missing parts. It was not Home Depot. It is ...

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 ...

... cours**, HISTOIRE AFRICAINE LES TROIS CLIENTS DU CHAUFFEUR DE TAXI-BROUSSE La chêvre est une mauvaise payeuse, alors elle fuit devant le véhicule et le chauffeur qui essaie de récupér** le prix de la course, Le chien, lui s'est fait arnaqu** par le chauffeur et essaie de le rattrap** pour qu'il lui rende sa monnaie, Quant à l'âne, qui est un client honnête, il a payé le prix juste, alors il ne bouge pas du milieu de la route car il n'a rien à craindre du chauffeur...

... in reality. I recognized some of the people as oth** tour lead**s from my time in Egypt but none w**e among those I was most friendly with. Doug, Marc, and I had to wait for a long time to use the grotty bathroom, one in which the wat** wasn't running again (a common occurrence from my memories of my time th**e) so it really reeked. The three of us put our clothes on, left the flat, and walked down the main street in ...

... of friendliness and lack of corruption as we left Segou. Halfway down a crowded street we all realized the crowds w**e signaling to the driv**s they w**e going the wrong way down the one way street. Howev**, th**e was no way for the truck to back up or turn around on the busy market street so Dave continued forward to the traffic circle at the main road wh**e the policed summoned Daphne to the side and Dave ...

... So we drove where others hiked and then explored the sights by foot. This meant that we were able to see more than by conventional means, plus listen to loud Malian hip-hop music along the way. Day 1 took us to Bandiougou (sp?), Bandiagara, Tele and Ende. The first town was an Islamic Dogon village at the edge of the plateau. Water was a scarce commodity here as seen at two of the fetching points: (1) a narrow fissure in the Earth reached by climbing down a ladder to access a small ...