Hotel Sahel

... briefly from the unfortunate situation of walking with a crazy person through a dark (very dark – no street lights) area of the Sahel. Unfortunately, I was so engrossed in talking to them that I almost ran into a pig. Had it not been for its fearful ...

... . Locusts in huge swarms fly behind us. These must be the same ones that have ravaged so many crops across the West African Sahel. They look like harmless insects, but there are so many of them that I can imagine the damage they might do. About an ...

... I wouldn’t spoil his fun and gave it to him. And then it was time to start my sightseeing. „Le Fleuve“ hotel which I was staying in was just a stone throw away from the Bani river and Boulevard de l’Indépendance that ran alongside ...

... outside that help in the solution but its not enough and Sahara its advancing and Is destroying all that is left from the Sahel.   I spent some nice relaxing days in Bamako, the capital city, a place that still keeps the looks of an old colonial ...

... on about 6.20pm (if they knew it was going to happen, why couldn't they have the generator ready - this is an expensive hotel) Watch "Evylyn" with interruptions from the staff turning the channels over to what they want, but DP sorts them out, and we ...

... 8217;Esplanade“ owners own a restaurant, as well, just across the street, or Quai Ousmane Djiré to be precise, from the hotel. The restaurant practically lies at the water edge. My motor cycle friend took me there to suggest it as a good place to ...

... to find a path back to the main road, see the right hotel name, but the hat Muesum is long gone, together with the hotel restaurant. Get water and Yogos from a service station, now identified as a good source of these, and get another taxi to the ...

... la Revolution. Really just a stone throw away. This mosque was the first building I saw that was a representative of sub-Saharan, or Sahel style mud architecture. I had seen pictures of a few and I was expecting to see some of them later into my trip. ...

... , the winds that blow sand in from the Sahel and Sahara must make Bamako one of the world's dustiest cities.  Our hotel/campement, Le Relais d'Joliba, was along the Niger's banks across the river and a few miles upstream from the city center and had ...

... by little suspension bridges so the extensive family could meet each other without going outside. The joining palace was called Beit al-Sahel (house of the coast), and was the Sultans official town residence. It was built by Sultan Seyyid Said, and years ...

... , saj ze skoraj dve noci nisva spala. Sedezi v Turkisu so kriminalno natlaceni... Torej po aldrenalinski voznji sva prisla v hotel s super prijaznim sefom, ki nama je rihtal vse rezervacije za nadaljevanje poti v Esfehan. Teheran je drugace smrdece, ...

... know, maybe we would even bump into each other again. I took a taxi and went to the „Belle Vue“ hotel. When I arrived, the staff recognised me immediately. Which, honestly, didn’t exactly amount to a detective work. Recognising a white, ...

... stopped off at the town's biggest haveli (city palace), which was built in the 1920s for a local textile baron, and now was a hotel. It was nice to hang out in the courtyard, munch on cheese toast and sip tea brought by four waiters. I played ...

... place is supplanted by the sense of planet. So it is on the 600km hop from Bamako to Mopti: 9hrs of greenery, forest, parkland, sahel, savannah and finally, sand.   5.30pm, Mopti The banks of the Niger, it turns out, are a crossroads. I've ...

... nbsp; At our beachside camp in Grand Popo we encountered a Rotel truck.  Rotel is a motel-like word, a contraction of Rollende Hotel and is the German version of overland group travel.  The Krauts know how to do it with style, and these ...

... made it this far, so they obviously would have been too slow for us anyway. Have a look around the village, including another nice Sahel-style mosque, and after a drink and a rest, ready to continue the 3km on to Teli. We're happy to walk, but Bebe ...

... largely relaxed in Khartoum in the expat area near the UN mission offices. We stayed in an overpriced average accommodation (Hotel Bougainvilla) that clearly is bilking UN and NGO expense accounts - you want to know where some of your donations and ...

... there was a show involving singing, dancing, drums and 'comedy'? The landscape changed so much within a few miles, from dry Sahel, often charred and blackened by forest fire but with new yellow flowers, bare trees with bright orange/red flowers and ...