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London to Bamako, Day 1. Not the perfect start - The Rover blows up, Audi to the rescue….
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Homeward Bound
After just a few hours sleep on a floor we sort out our tickets first thing at the Air Maroc office. We now have a “bonus” day in Bamako and spend it at the Mande - a hotel frequented in the past by luminaries including Bobby Charlton and Rob Pearson - eating food and lounging/sleeping [...]
Back to Bamako
Drive to CRES to unload and pack up our stuff for the flight home. The time has come to hand over the Green Machine. I feel rather sad bidding her farewell. Many years of good service and finally a last mad 3 week roadtrip to Mali, and still going strong (with the help of an [...]
Moped Madness
Great morning spent zooming around the countryside around Djenne on mopeds. Hot, dusty and a whole lot of fun!
And of course, rather appropriately, one of the bikes breaks down and we have to get it rescued from the edge of town. We pay for some repairs and afterwards the moterbike man asks if we can [...]
Djenne
Long hot drive up the Niger but lovely scenery. Just before Djenne there is a little 3-car ferry and its great fun watching the colourful clamour of people and overloaded vehicles doing the 5 minute trip and getting on and off with us.
Djenne is renowned for its mud architecture and has the largest mud building [...]
Segou - Festival on the Niger
The town is packed and heaving. Malian music, crowds, bright colours, hustlers everywhere, centred on the centre down by the river. A great atmosphere day and night - a whole lot of fun lunacy. We take a old wooden pirogue (i think its called) boat out for an hour at sunset which is lovely and [...]
An Oeuf is Enough
A late start on the drive north. Within 20mins its looking like the water leak/over heating which has been getting worse and worse on the Audi has become critical - we barely make the outskirts of Bamako before the reservoir is dry.
Boxy But Good have a little run-in at a police checkpoint - the police [...]
