Video of Dogon Dama Mask Ceremony in Mali
Another short video I made, this time showing the fascinating Dogon culture in Mali… a funeral procession and dance I saw when visiting the village of Djiguibombo: Video of Dogon…
Video of Dogon Dama Mask Ceremony
While in Mali, travelling with a friend and without the bike, we spent three days walking along the Bandiagara escarpment in Dogon country. It really is best to go with…
Bamako to Ouagadougou (part 4) – And into Burkina Faso
Leaving Mali Leaving Mali was tougher than I thought. Not due to any particular attachment, although I did enjoy my time there. It was the wind and the rough, corrugated,…
Bamako to Ouagadougou (part 3) – Escape from Timbuktu
I had heard that leaving Timbuktu can be a time-consuming challenge. So when I was in Kourioume, still 10km prior to arriving, I was searching out ways to leave. The…
Bamako to Ouagadougou (part 2) – A Detour to Timbuktu
Djenne Djenne is a sleepy place. Except for Mondays. Monday is market day. Market day means hundreds of people arrive in town, congregate, congest the streets. They usher in goats…
In Search of Food – The Bucket Boys
One familiar sight in Senegal was that of young boys, in tattered rags, walking the streets clutching large, empty metal tins (think Heinz baked beans tins, super-sized) looking for handouts…
Bamako to Ouagadougou (part 1) – The Harmattan and Hungry
It’s been so long since the last proper update I hardly know what to write about. I guess the simplest thing is to start from where I left off…. and…
Timbuktu Cats
Firstly, Timbuktu is a real place – a dusty town on the edge of the Sahara in Mali. Timbuktu is a place of legend and many early European explorers through…
A Change Can Do You Good
A month’s break from the bike seems to have been the perfect medicine for re-igniting my interest in my travels in West Africa and Mali specifically. It’s been a fascinating…
Photos of the Pays Dogon – Cliffside Culture
Three days in the Dogon country is only just enough time to gain a small insight into the fascinating culture of the Dogon people who inhabit the small villages along…
Photos of the Pays Dogon – Faces of the Future
I spent a few days walking through the Dogon Country, a fascinating place in Mali with fascinating people. Here are some photos of the children from the numerous villages along…
Photos of Djenne’s Mud Mosque and Monday Market
A small selection of photos of Djenne’s, in Mali, mud mosque and scenes from the Monday market. The mosque, the largest of it’s kind in Mali, was built in 1907…
Photos from Guinea and Mali – the route northeast
A few photos from the cycle from Kouroussa in Guinea, where we ended the boat trip, heading northeast into Mali for Bamako and then on to Djenne.
…The Travel Blues in Mali
Mali is famous for it’s music but I haven’t heard much and haven’t tried to find it. I’ve been singing my own song and I’d have to say it’not very…