Tag Archives: Sunset

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?

Tags Africa, Almou, Crossroad, Desert, Festival, Mali, Mopti, Music, People, Photography, Pictures, Road, Road trip, Sahel, Sunset, Timbuktu, Travel, Tuareg, West Africa | Comments Off

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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

Mali Sénégal Travel

Waiting for volcano

14 August 2011 – 22:15

Story of braving a great ash eruption, flight cancellations, long queues under baking hot sun in Malian capital Bamako and discovering the best caffee in town that actually serves a proper Italian espresso and above all making it back home.

Tags Africa, Air France, Almou, Ash eruption, Atlantic ocean, Bamako, Cold Beer, Dakar, Mali, Senegal, Sunset, Travel, Volcanic ash, Volcano Eruption, West Africa, Yoff | Comments Off

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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 Côte, Pictures, Senegal, Sunset, Toubab, Travel, West Africa, Yoff, Youngsters | Comments Off

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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.

Tags Africa, Atlantic, Bamako, Benin, Bram, Burkina Faso, Bush Taxi, Cold Beer, Dakar, Ghana, Lomé, Mali, People, Road trip, Saint Louis, Senegal, Sunset, Togo, Travel, West Africa, Yoff | Comments Off

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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.

Tags Africa, Gossi, Lake, Mali, People, Poetry, Sunset, Teberemt, Tuaregs | Comments Off

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