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The Travel Programmes

Mopti  Tomboctou    2 nights/3 days
Mopti   Gao   5 nights/6 days
Mopti   Ségou 2 nights/3 days
Mopti   Bamako/Koulikoro 5 nights/6 days
Mopti  Djenné    1 day
Mopti   Lac Débo  1 night/2 days
Mopti   Niafounké  1 night/2 days
Mopti   Konna  1 day  
Mopti   Diafarabé   1 night/2 days*
Mopti   Ké-Macina  1 night/2 days*
Mopti   Diré  1 night/2 days

* retour only  

 

POSSIBILITY  to go or to return by pinasse, 4x4etc. (You don’t have to be a member of a group)
 
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Just a tour of 1, 2, 3 or 6 hours? Or a cruise of 3 days, (spending the nights at the riverbank or camping) from Mopti to Tomboctou? During the voyage you will see the villages of Bozo, Peul, Sonraï and Tamashek (with 3 visits a day); traditional houses, a lot of birds, characteristic mosques, hippo’s, piroques with full sail etc.

You’ll embark the pinasse ; a traditional, elegant, arched wooden boat (motorized); with upholstered benches, kitchen, toilet, luggage compartment and a roof “with a view”.  The nights will be spend in tents on the riverbank.

   

The cruise with the pinasse :
With its crew, a guide, (who speaks French and Malian languages)*, mattresses, tents, paraffin-lamps, meals (hot and cold)  with fresh fish: capitaine. (nile perch)  

*an English speaking guide on request

    

Who am I ?  

My name is Alkaye Traoré ; I was born in Youvarou and raised in Mopti.  Among others I have worked for Doctors without Borders and Veterinarians without Borders in Mali.

Since 1984 I’m a pinassier and from 1995 on also a guide;  I cooperate with European and African tour-operators, but I arrange also excursions and  voyages for individual parties. I’ve worked and travelled in Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon.  

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For more information or questions
     alkayebaba@yahoo.fr
or: (00223)  6760706
     (00223)   5306780
     (00223)   6290953

    
(00223)   9037657
or:
Postal address:
     BP 224
     Mopti
     Mali 

 

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