Vacation! I’ve been traveling the last few weeks with a couple fellow volunteers. We ventured north, in hopes of reaching Timbuktu. Our first stop was in the Dogon region of Southern Mali. mud mosque To defend themselves from warring tribes and slave traders, the Dogon people built their homes high in the rocky escarpment that [...]
These handmade wooden vessels chug up and down the Niger river with loads of rice, millet, cement, flour, gasoline, or just about anything that’s needed further inland. The boat was staffed with two drivers, a captain, a handyman, an engine operator, and two cook girls.
It was a quick ride in a 4×4 taxi to get to the fabled city of Timbuktu. We unloaded the taxi and were promptly welcomed by a couple of obnoxious police officers with bloated egos.
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