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?
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An apology, sort of, I guess…
10 March 2011 – 13:49
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
14 May 2010 – 13:07
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
7 May 2010 – 13:22
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
13 April 2010 – 22:18
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.
Teberemt, finally…
28 March 2010 – 22:13
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
27 March 2010 – 21:48
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.