Introduction
The report you find here has been written by Luc Van den Broeck. He visited Mali for 4 weeks from 24/10/98 till 23/11/98. If you have any questions, you can e-mail him.
This is the trip he made:
- Bamako
- Mopti
- Timbouctou
- Gao
- Hombori
- Douentza
- Sanga
- Mopti
- Djenné
- Segou
- Bamako
Travel guides
There are no budget oriented travel guides for Mali itself, so you'll have to buy a bigger guide on West Africa, like the Lonely Planet or the Rough Guide. My personal favourite was the Rough Guide, but everybody has to decide for himself. Also, as long as the Rough guide did not get an update, the LP is the preferred option.
Lonely planet Edition 4/99.
Order the Lonely Planet West Africa for 23.96 US$! West Africa Rough Guide
Edition 12/95, there should be a new edition soon I guess.
Order the West Africa Rough Guide now for only 24.95 US$! Mali Blues This book was originally written in Dutch by a Belgian writer, Lieve Joris. She quite famous with several books with travel stories like "The gates of Damascus" and a book on a journey on the Congo river. This book is about her trip to Mali starting from Senegal where she describes her trip as a white woman in an African society. The book has now been translated into English and published by Lonely Planet.
Order Mali Blues now for only 10.36 US$! Wegwijzer For those of you speaking dutch, it is definitely worth considering becoming member of "Wegwijzer". This is a non-commercial organisation based in Bruges, Belgium. They have an incredible amount of info coming from guidebooks, leaflets but also reports from members. Since 2001 you can now get a lot of these reports online!! Membership is only 25 Euro a year, and this includes a good magazine they publish every 2 months. Have a look at
www.wegwijzer.be. I myself am a member since almost 20 years now.
