Travel Blog Photos from Banks of the Niger (10)
|
|
|
|
|
![]() | Banks of the Niger, Mali |
... usual, sleep is instantaneous but at around 4am the need to offload the obligatory 'on the Niger' beer hits me. Unfortunately the distantly glimpsed hippo of the day becomes the potentially lethal grazer of the night and outside our flimsy tents bellows, ...
... the accompanying spaghetti. Buoyed by beer and bones, we anchor on the shore at 6pm and strike out towards the sounds of reggae, imagining wine, women and song aplenty. No such luck I'm afraid, simply a clutch of bemused fishers. I do, however ...