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Bogolan – mud-cloths
Wir sind in Mali angekommen – war gar nicht so schwierig wie wir anfangs dachten. Und die Grenzkontrollen nahmen auch nicht mehr als knapp 2 Stunden in Anspruch ;) Segou liegt am ***** und der Fluss dient zum Wäschewaschen, als Viehtränke aber auch zum Baden. Und bietet unglaublich schöne Sonnenuntergänge! Sie machen hier aber auch spannende Stoffe – gefärbt wird nur mit ...
Quickie!
... Toure.
As expected he music has got better in Mali, and should get better still with Bamako coming up.
Anyway I'm going to get off as I need to eat before a trip to a pottery village- a few km down the *****!
Thanks again and I'll update you more in Bamako- if I can get out of bed after the parties!
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Ségou, January 4, 2009 - Sunday
... pleasant outside and the temperature still had a ways to go. Which it undoubtedly would, but I hoped that by the time it really shot up I’d be in my bus on the way to Mopti.
Around the ticket booth there was a paved space with some flat roofing and a few concrete benches, obviously serving as a waiting spot. People gradually came in and among them there were four of us whites. A lone, long-haired, blonde girl from who-knows-where and a couple from ...
Ségou, January 3, 2009 - Saturday
... the river from your room window. So in a way it was only fitting for me to start my tour of the town right at the riverbank.
Of course, there is much more to Ségou than just the river. After all, third biggest Malian town hasn’t acquired its size for nothing. It’s been around for quite a while, since the times when some of the countries which today boast of power and influence didn’t even exist. A historic settlement, it was once capital of the kingdom ...