The trip to Segou   On March 9th Marie and I arrived at the Bamako Bus Station at 10:00 a.m., fully realizing that our bus would not leave on time. However, it did leave a few minutes later and we began our three-hour trip, which lasted, from 10:15 a.m. until 3:15 p.m. The bus presented [...]

“Hello Bamako,” Mali  Mar. 2-9, ’01   In summary, I spent eight days in Bamako: meeting people with whom I had crossed The Sahara, a Hollander who showed me the way for the next three weeks (I had left my guidebook in the car after crossing the desert), spending an afternoon and eliciting from a [...]