Extraordinary adventures from long drive back from Festival au desert in Timbuktu to Sévaré, a ride across half of Mali. Starting early in the morning and arriving late in the evening to find there is no place to crash. What would you do?
Category Archives: Random Travel Stories
RTS: No place to stay, part II
25 November 2011 – 17:00
Tags Africa, Almou, Crossroad, Desert, dirt track, extraordinary adventures, Festival, festivities, Hotel, la piste, Mali, Mopti, Music, Niger, Niger River, People, river ferry, Road, Road trip, Segou, Timbuktu, Travel, Tuaregs, wee hours, West Africa | Comment (1)
RTS: No place to stay, part I
24 October 2011 – 11:13
Extraordinary adventures from long drive back from Festival au desert in Timbuktu to Sévaré, a ride across half of Mali. Starting early in the morning and arriving late in the evening to find there is no place to crash. What would you do?
RTS: La Maison Rouge, Mopti
29 September 2011 – 13:27
When you think you really know the place is when you get surprised the most. Mopti in Mali, one of the poorest countries on earth has unearthed a gem of a place. Knowing the city inside out I somehow managed to miss a hotel called La Maison Rouge that has charm, friendliness and uniqueness in abundance. And is topping it all with excellent cocktails and rooms with a view of a million stars in place of a roof. Beat that if you can. I know I can’t and was taken over…
Tags Africa, Backpack, Bandiagara Escarpment, Bani River, Crossroad, Dogon People, Friendliness, Gao, Hotel, Mali, Mopti, Niger River, Pottery Business, River, River Confluence, Road, Rooftop Bars, Salt Slabs, Segou, Sunset, Timbuktu, Travel, West Africa | Comments Off on RTS: La Maison Rouge, Mopti
RTS: Yoff plage
16 July 2011 – 15:33
Story of a simple stroll around Yoff, a suburb in Dakar, Senegal on my last afternoon in the country before scheduled return to Bamako, Mali. Discovery of a local gym on the beach, followed by a proper fish market right there on the sandy beach and all wrapped up with a nice cold bottle of La Gazelle in a plastic stool.
Tags Africa, Atlantic ocean, Bamako, beach, Cold Beer, Dakar, Fishermen, Hotel, Joal-Fadiouth, Local Gym, Locals, Mali, Mosque Layene, Petite CĂ´te, Pictures, Senegal, Sunset, Toubab, Travel, West Africa, Yoff, Youngsters | Comments Off on RTS: Yoff plage
RTS: Satellite dish
5 May 2011 – 11:38
Story about a failed attempt at setting up a satellite dish in remote Malian village of Teberemt deep in the Sahel region. How a bunch of local young guns and a toubab had a go at setting it up in a place without electricity nor with a help from anybody having at least a slightest clue about setting such a dish up. Drying up emergency car battery along the way to failing miserably.
Tags Africa, Almou, Border, Burkina Faso, Desert, Goat, Indigenous Groups, Mali, Muftah, Rainy Season, Running Water, Sahel, Satellite Dish, Teberemt, Toubab, Tuareg, village | Comments Off on RTS: Satellite dish
RTS: The Well
30 March 2010 – 00:01
Peul settlers from Chad and Niger causing trouble for local Tuareg population in south eastern Mali.
RTS: Poetry by the lake
29 March 2010 – 15:36
Reading very personal poetry on the shores of Mare de Gossi while enjoying the beautiful sunset.
RTS: Spotting hypos
11 March 2010 – 19:25
Spotting hypos at Tengréla lake in the country around Banfora, Burkina Faso.
RTS: The son of West Africa
11 March 2010 – 18:47
The story of Little red Ted, the happy scooter, taking me around to discover the natural beauties in the country around Banfora in Burkina Faso.
RTS: Bureaucracy
1 March 2010 – 18:40
African bureaucracy has the stigma of being one of the worst known to humanity. And today I had a go at it myself.
