Niger River, Mali

Travel Blogs from Niger River (2)

Boating up the river, Niger River, Mali travel blog
Boating up the river
Nov 16, 2005

Miles Travelled: 17550 We're on a pinasse, an oversized canoe with an outboard motor, chugging slowly down the Niger River toward Timbuktu. The journey is quite peaceful, though the pinasse is quite long and narrow and has an uncomfortable tendency to ...

A travel blog entry by thechans
Slow Boating All The Way To Timbuktu, Niger River, Mali travel blog
Slow Boating All The Way To Timbuktu
Nov 9, 2009

... knew?? Just before our last stop of the day, we paid a visit to a Songhie village crowded onto one of the many Niger River islands (many of these island villages hadn’t yet been reoccupied as the river level was still quite high following the recent ...

A travel blog entry by tdv95

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