A memory of hanging out with locals in a hired, motorized canoe – pirogue – cruising the waterways around the ancient town of Djenne; meantime while drinking hot tea, smoking grass, music playing; taking pics from the water at sunset.
Dogon country – Mali
Once a fabled city of great gold wealth and Islamic scholarship, today Timbuktu is …
3 days down the Niger River, thru the Sahara, from Mopti to Timbuktu, by pirogue. Camping on the desert shores, passing mud-sculptured villages and their elaborate mosques
The famous, surreal mud mosque of ancient Djenne overlooks the class Monday market ..
Michael Robert Powell is from New Zealand but he's lived out of a backpack most of his adult life, exploring 100+ countries & territories, since 1988 ... Today, he continues this crazed, minimalist, global-nomadic existence in pursuit of knowledge, fun, and freedom. → Read more
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