Mali Day 14 - Back to Bamako

After two weeks of driving , boating and walking around Mali, our time was up. Well, almost, we just had a little thing called the 12hr drive back to Bamako to finish off.

We'd stayed our last night in Dogon country up on top of the escarpment in a small village and had got up early and walked back down to the bottom to find our car. By now the amount of crap in the car has tripled as we'd pretty much bought everything that wasn't bolted down between the three of us. We figured we wouldn't be back for a while, so it was well worth doing a little extra purchasing.

We left the quite villages of Dogon Country and hit the road - which I must say is quite fun in this part of the world as you get to see a whole bunch of interesting stuff very quickly.

The roads are always full of people trying to get from point A to B anyway possible

Thus there's always a little extra traffic on the roads during the day.
Luckily no-one's dumb enough to do it at night.

Every village you pass through is always alive with trade,
making the idea of a highway a little more laid back as you have to slow every few kms

One thing that surprised us was all the fancy ladies on bikes.
In Nigeria no-one owns their own bike, you just jump on one of the commercial ones.
And even if you do own a bike, you won't be a woman and you wouldn't ride by yourself.
Hoorah Mali - very impressed


A quick stop for some lunch on the road...
(not the pink stuff, ours was actually cooked, and very good)
Unlike the suya in Nigeria, where you get a free coating of sand on your meat,
these guys had mustard!! I sh!t you not (awesome...)

But as the day wore on, people started to head home

life in Mali kept on going

and we flew home to sunny Lagos...