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ali,
16 January 2009
Mali
, Sevare
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Just this afternoon I came back from a trekking of 3 days in the Dogon area. First we visited Bandiagara and Dourou. From here started our walk of 9 km for the first day. The landscape was wondeful while we descend half way the falaise to Benigmato to spend the night. The view from the rooftops where we could sleep at the surrounding rocks, the sky with bright stars was fabulous. The second day we went down to the plain on the feet of the falaise. The walk of 12 km in the burning sun during midday was a bit hard. So I decided to go by donkey chart for the last 2 km just before lunchtime in Ende. Also for the last 4 km later in the afternoon I took a chart. We spent the night in Teli the place I was 19 years ago. From the campement in the village we had a splendid view at the old Tellem dwellings at the cliffs.
This morning we walked up to visit them. On our way back to Mopti we visited Songo, the rock with colourful paintings where every 3 years the little boys from the area will be circumcised.
Tomorrow we are on our way back to Bamako for the sunday night flight back to Europe.
TERUG in de DOGON
Na 19 jaar was ik weer terug in de Dogon, al heb ik tijdens deze driedaagse trekking veel meer plaatsen gezien dan toen.
Via Bandiagara reden we met de truck naar Dourou. Na de lunch begonnen we hier onze wandeling van 9 km. In het dorp was het erg warm, maar tijdens de wandeling viel het mee. Pracht omgeving. We zijn halverwege de falaise afgedaald door een grillig dal. Veel landerijtjes met uien, poeltjes met waterlelies. We overnachtten in Benigmato. Prachtige grillige rotsen rondom, heldere sterrenlucht. 's Morgens was er een maskerdans in het dorp. Vanaf 9 uur gingen we weer lopen. Eerst afdalen naar de vlakte. Daar 8 km naar Ende het dorp waar we zouden lunchen. Gelukkig was er zo nu en dan wat schaduw van baobabs. Vriendelijke lokale bevolking onderweg, bij de putten, de dorpjes of zo maar onder een boom. De laatste 2 km toen het wel erg warm werd en erg mul heb ik een lift genomen met een ezelskar. Na de lunch om drie uur hadden we nog 4 km te gaan naar het volgende dorp. Om 3 uur zijn we in een kleine karavaan van 5 ossenkarren verder getrokken naar Teli. Dit is het dorp waar ik 19 jaar geleden geweest ben. Van het campement in het dorp pracht uitzicht op de overhangende rotsen met de oude Tellem woningen.
Vanmorgen zijn we hier naar toe geklommen. Er was niet veel veranderd. Op de terugweg naar Mopti met de truck hebben we een stop gemaakt in Songo bij een rots met kleurige tekeningen. Hier worden in de drie jaar de jochies uit de streek besneden.
Mrogen beginnen we aan onze terugtocht. In 2 dagen rijden we naar Bamako voor de terugvlucht zondagnacht terug naar Parijs/ Amsterdam.
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16 January 2009
can't wait for pictures as well....glad you had such a lovely trip
22 January 2009
Sounds like a wonderful trip Ali. I was checking your pics on this website and think they are absolutely wonderful. Actually, what a great webpage!
Love, Agnes (songlines)
13 February 2009
hello how are you me is hakim from sahara exaclty the south of morocco MERZOUGA i think that you have been there so i will give to you my email in order to contact with me if you need any infrolation about that place ok : ryahi_hakim@hotmail.com
22 February 2009
great web page and am having a great morning reading more of your tips and your travels pictures, and how i like the flags of the countries visited
29 May 2009
6 October 2009
Hi I am doing organizations trekking for Mount Ararat.I am from Dogubeyazit. when you was ben here in dogubeyazit? very interest for me, you ben Dogubeyazit in my before.
climbtoararat@hotmail.com
Hope we can talk same day on messager.
THANKS
26 January 2010
Greetings Sachara -
My name is David from Madison, Wisconsin. I am a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (I was a teacher in Hungary from 93-95).
I am contacting you because I ran across the beautiful photos of Nigeria that I saw on a travel site. (They were beautiful!) Every year, the returned Peace Corps group here in Madison publish a Peace Corps calendar with photos from Peace Corps countries. Most years we get hundreds of photos submitted to be in the calendar - but this year is the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps so we thought to run a special edition featuring the first 13 Peace Corps countries. The problem is that we haven't had any photo submissions from Nigeria!
I was hoping that you would consider entering a few of your beautiful photos for submission in the calendar (www.rpcvcalendar.org) We couldn't pay you anything but if one of your photos is selected, you'd receive 25 free calendars - and your photo would be in an international calendar sold around the world. 100% of the profits of the calendars we sell go to charity - we fund various projects around the world such as refugee camps, clean wells for villages, libraries, community centers, youth education, etc.
Would you please consider submitting a few of your photos? Please, please contact me at dsmarshall10@gmail.com - thank you!
Regards,
David
21 June 2010
I have been living in Africa,working my won Travel and Travel. I can Imagen the hard ship you faced but I hope you earned a great experience.
In every each Africa Countries has different experience.
please when you come Ethiopia visit me.
Israel G.slassie
GM of Seka Travel and Tour
Tel: 251 911 63 6523
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