Hotel Djenne Bamako

... been cancelled! Bloody politicians! There was a little market on the Sunday- but not the spectacle I had been hoping to witness. Djenne's other famous attraction is the mud mosque (the largest of its kind in the world)- however one side was covered ...

... hotel recommended by Nick and Robin. As you can camp in their grounds. Also have a really good restaurant! Arrived in Bamako yesterday afternoon.Got our Mauritanian Visa's this morning so planning on heading to the border tomorrow and will probably ...

... cov. = 359 km 18th - Drove through San and crossed by small boat over the Bani River for a guided tour of Djenne, our guide was a local school teacher.  The tour was interesting, we learned about the different styles of mud builidings...moroccan ...

A short stop in Djenne on my way back to Bamako was mandatory in order to admire the world's largest mud building ever built, a giantic mosque that reminds us that Mali was, in the 12th century, the religious, intellectual and commercial heart of West ...

... it may be). This is a reminder for us how different the world can be, and that everyone's definition of justice is different. Departing Bamako, for the largest town on the Sahel (the part of Africa just below the Sahara Desert), Djenne, gave us a good ...

... es dann zurueck, und ich hatte mit der Truppe aus dem Dogon-Land noch 1.5 nette Tage in Mopti, bevor ich gestern nach Bamako gefahren bin. Zusammen mit Laurent uebrigens, der hier schon seit Ewigkeiten Leute kennt, bei denen ich denn auch letzte Nacht ...

... required for one to be certified in order to work as a guide. Yousuf was a certified guide. We negotiated a tour of Djenne and the surrounding villages for a reasonable price. Djenne looked like an oversized clay model. Almost all structures were made of ...

... schlecht-, sehe ich erst mal, ob das hier mit dem Fotos Hochladen funktioniert. Tage spaeter, ich bin inzwischen in Bamako. Fotos hochladen funktionierte, allerdings hab ich fuer die paar Bilder zwei Stunden gebraucht und dann nochmal eine, um mir ...

... for a couple of days in Fes and that was nearly 2 months ago! Roxana and Richard have joined us for a couple of days heading to Djenne. We bushcamped on the way and arrived in Djenne on the 5th. The town has the largest mud building in the world, an old ...

... and preoccupation for it. I cannot say that Niamey the capital looks deplorable because it's not true. It looks better than Bamako (Mali) and Nouakchott (Mauritania), its cleaner, laidback and more enjoyable. Here I have stayed at the Grand Hotel of ...

... and vertically into a taxi brouche and trundle off to Sevare, greatly simplifying (I hope) tomorrow's bus trip back to Bamako.   I book into Via Via (a Thorntree recommendation) and just about have time to make the tortuous trip to Djenne to be ...

The Sleeping Camel, the hostel in Bamako where I stayed for a week after my return from Djenne, casts spells on backpackers. I stayed 8 nights although it seemed one! Nice people, good food, cold booze, cosy lounge, helpful staff, nice neighbourhood with ...

... out in the whole town.   We flew to Mopti to then drive to Djenne to catch up with the others who were driving from Bamako to Djenné.  We fought for taxi after taxi, but obviously lacking the local knack.  So we had to do the bush taxi ...

... that money I gave, I doubt the people of Djenne will ever be able to return to living uninterrupted lives. We left from Djenne to Pays Dogon, a part of Mali made up of hundreds of small villages that have maintained their traditional way of living ...

... we arrive in Bamako after 5 straight days of driving we finally made it and i know can go meet Eric at the hotel we had agreed upon. To describe Bamako would be hard without visual aid but to sum it up all i can say is activity. this place is buzzing ...

... epic train journey we were both feeling rather jaded.  We therefore checked into one of the swankier hotels in Mali outside Bamako, paying a budget-busting (but haggled) 12 pounds a night. We spent two days lounging around the swimming pool at our ...

... dinner together. The next day brought another relaxing day for us in Segou while we hugged Milagros goodbye as she traveled to Bamako for a meeting. Another three days on the road (but not nearly as eventful as the journey to Mali, thank goodness!) made ...

Leaving Bamako for an unknown bushcamp near the world heritage area of Djenne. This town is famous for its mud mosque, its the largest mud structure in the world. Transport to this town involved the truck, a traditional pirogue (canoe), followed by a ride ...

... the news usually exaggerates the situation on ground and that did seem to be the case there as well. All the locals in Bamako and Djenne had assured me that the safety warning were no more than rumours. Nevertheless, this was a concern in the back of my ...

... tourists with phallic cameras that require two hands to carry, guides everywhere, rip off arists, souveineir salesmen etc. The capital, Bamako is next. I notice I tell you a whole lot about what I'm doing, but not so much about what I'm ...