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RTS: No place to stay, part II

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: No place to stay, part I

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?

An apology, sort of, I guess…

Ermmm, I don’t know how to put this. An apology is needed I guess. To you my readers. See while I was travelling many things happened to me and some of those I’ve shared with you. Some stayed in my head waiting to see the light of this diary. Some I thought I would not share for various reasons. And some that were in the making, drafts so to speak, but never made it to you. Which is a shame. Especially because the only reason for the latter was I came back home and was overwhelmed with other events, people, projects and ideas. Getting back into daily routine. So, maybe, eeerm, those road stories of mine were left lurking in the darker parts of my head waiting and hoping for better times. And it looks like now, 10 months after the coming back home, might be the time for them to resurface.

Photos from Festival sur le Niger 2010

Pictures of Astan Kida, Atongo Zimba, Baaba Maal, Habib Koïté, Nahawa Doumbia, Salif Keita, Sekouba Bambino Diabaté, Tinariwen performing at Festival sur le Niger 2010 in Ségou, Mali.

Photos from Festival au Désert 2010

Pictures of Afel Bocoum, Amadou & Mariam, Bassekou Kouyaté and Ami Sacko, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Habib Koïté, Khaira Arby, Koudede, Mamar Kassey, Tartit, Terakaft and Tinariwen performing at Festival au Désert 2010 in Timbuktu, Mali.

Destination Sénégal

Story of trying to go to Lomé, Togo to buy a car and drive trough Benin, Togo, Ghana and Burkina Faso back to Bamako, Mali but ending up going to Dakar, Sénégal instead.

RTS: The Well

Peul settlers from Chad and Niger causing trouble for local Tuareg population in south eastern Mali.

RTS: Poetry by the lake

Reading very personal poetry on the shores of Mare de Gossi while enjoying the beautiful sunset.

Teberemt, finally…

Enjoying the quiet life without electricity, running water or phone network in small Tuareg village of Teberemt deep in Malian bush near Burkina Faso’s border.

Pinasse

Enjoying the slow pace of river life while going on a 3 day pinasse trip from Mopti to Lac Debo and back on Niger river in Mali.