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After three months, multiple agencies, and countless emails and conversations, not to mention a scam artist, I am very pleased with our final tour package in Mali. After a week in Burkina Faso with Victoria, we will meet up with Katie and Elisa in Djenne to start the Mali leg of our trip. Here’s what we have planned:

             

 

Mali Discovering & Desert Festival Timbuktu 

Djenné – Mopti – Rivercruise – Desert Festival – Inland Flight – Bamako

 

 

Arrival : 23/12 & 1 january 2010

Departure of the Tour : 02 january 2010
End of the Tour :     10 january 2010
Transport 4 x 4 & Inland Flight

9 days

 

Ø      Day by Day Description

 

 

23/12/01 and 01/01/10 Bamako (2 persons & 2 persons)

Welcome procidure at the aeroport by Touareg Tours Staff. If arrival in the day, you will have a guided visit of Bamako, if nocturnal arrival, direct transfer to the Hotel.

Night at Hotel Cauris Lodge ** ok

Niaréla Bamako 66 79 14 38 (no website)

 

02/01/10  Bamako  Djenné

Free ride of the participants and meeting in Djenné. Touareg Tours is doing the hotelreservation. Check in the rooms : At 13h/ 1 pm on 02/01.

Night at Hôtel/Camp Djenné ** ok

Main Place/next to Mosk in Djenné 20 42 04 97 (no website)

 

03/01/10 Djenné Mopti

Guided visit Djenné in the morning. Departure for Mopti in mid afternoon.

1 ½ h driving from Djenné to Mopti.

Vehicule in Djenné at 15 h/ 3pm, meeting point : Hotel Camp Djenné.

Night at Hotel Y a pas de problem Hotel **(*) (ventilated rooms with inside private shower but outdoor sanitaries/toilet)

Mopti, behind Hotel Kanaga **** on riverside 20 43 10 41 (www.yapasdeprobleme.com)

 

04/01/10 to 06/01/10 Nigerrivercruise Djenné Timbuktu

We will give you meeting point or sent a representative for pinasse departure.

Two & ½ days navigation on the Niger River with a tradional but accommodated pinasse. Through Konna, Debo Lake, up from Sahel environnement to Saharian dune area, discover of the riversides, the African life on Niger rives, as well as the African fauna, such as different kind of birds, and some hippos. The lunch is taken on board, and the diner and nights are spent in camp on the riversides of Niger in the evening.

3 nights in camping

06/01/10  Timbuktu

The great day arrives and we enter in the famous Sandcity of Timbuktu in the morning. Visit of Timbuktu town, the mosks, Djinger Ber, Sankoré, Sidi Yayia, the peace monument an dits history, the by the Unesco restaurated part of the main center town, as well as the houses of Heinrich Barth and René Caillé. In function of arrival time of the pinasse, the visit can be done on 7^th in the morning.

Nuitée à l’hôtel**(*) Hendrina Khan

Quartier Sans-Fils, 20 92 16 81

07 au 9 Janvier 2010  Desert Festival in Timbuktu

At beginning of the afternoon, we start our expedition to the Festivals place and the amazing dunes where the Festival will happens. 3 days amazing music concerts at the official stages, but also, small music bands all over the site, are making “ambiente” all over. It is feast fever in the snow-white dunes. But also, meetings, conferences at the site, and many more : traditionnal games, spectacles, dances, traditionnal plays, animations, and by sure the best musical and artistic concerts from local, west-africain, africain, and international groups. An impressionnant performance in the white dunes of Essakane. You are in Toaureg Tents Accomodation, food is provided by the cook, mineral water, coffee, and touareg tea, whole night over at our campfire to warm up in the cold Saharian nights.

Basic Camp Touareg (Nomad Tent for 3 to 4 persons)

10/01/10  Essakane – Timbuktu – Inland Flight – Bamako

We take the flight (1 to 1 1/2h flight) in the morning to leave for Bamako. Welcome procedure at Bamako Aerport, guided visit of Bamako. Transfert to the airport or to the Hotel.

Hotel Cauris Lodge ** ok

 

11/01/10 Bamako

Free time

Hotel Cauris Lodge ** ok

 

12/01/10 Bamako

Day Use 1 dbleroom and then airport transfer

 

 

 

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