Sevare, Mali

Three day trek of the Dogon country begins.  Up early and met by Ali Baba and his "large" van - once again he seems not to have noted that we're not the size of 5 year olds.  Thankfully its only an hour drive so after saying goodbye to Oliver ...

We had a really bumpy ride for two days going south from Timbuktu back to Sevare, Mali. Also in typical African fashion, we had to wait for 3 hours for a ferry, because some government official was passing through and requisitioned the next ferry for ...

... to come quickly. We finally reached Tarmac and Dejeroux, where we stopped for lunch briefly before completing our Timbuktu odyssey back in Sevare.  For 4 adventurers (Sam, Suzy, Muz and Luke), their travels were just beginning....  

we have distributed pencils to lots of villages in Mali especially in the small most remote villages .  erins first question is to meet the chief and see if there is a school; and then distribute the pencils through him   :   ...