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A small selection of photos of Djenne’s, in Mali, mud mosque and scenes from the Monday market.

The mosque, the largest of it’s kind in Mali, was built in 1907 and the outer walls, which wash away with every rainy season, are re-rendered each year in a huge event in which the whole village takes part.
The [...]

A few photos from the cycle from Kouroussa in Guinea, where we ended the boat trip, heading northeast into Mali for Bamako and then on to Djenne.

On day 10 of the Niger River boat trip, we came across a Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Sanctuary.
Here are some photos from our visit…

For more information on chimpanzee rehabiliation and the Sanctuary, visit The Project Primate website

We spent 15 days on the Niger river - that’s 14 nights camping in the ‘wild’. The last night, having arrived in Kouroussa, we were able to check into a hotel!
The photo slideshow includes a photo of every spot we stayed, except one night when I forgot to get my camera out. That night, we [...]

Some views of the Niger River; photos taken during the two week paddle from Faranah to Kouroussa in Guinea…

We expected it to take 10-14 days to paddle down the Niger River from Faranah to Kouroussa in Guinea. It took 15 long days. It was hard work and tough at times but great fun too and an amazing experience.
I will of course be writing a full update, but for now, here are some pictures [...]

Having spent nearly a week in the small but friendly town of Faranah in Guinea, we managed to get built a river-worthy wooden pirogue and buy suplies to keep us sustained for the two weeks it was expected to take to get to Kouroussa, the next place along the river…

The Welbodi Partnership
‘Welbodi’, meaning ‘health’ in Krio
In Sierra Leone, more than one in four children die before their fifth birthday, mainly from preventable illness or disease such as malaria, diarrhoea, pneumonia or malnutrition.
The Welbodi Partnership is working at the Ola During Children’s Hospital along with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation with the aim of [...]

Here’s a selection of photos from the last few weeks cycling through the Gambia, Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Guinea.
Unfortunately electricity and internet connection are in short supply in this part of the world and so I haven’t been able to add titles or descriptions. Hopefully I’ll get chance at a later date.

A collection of photos from the last few days in St. Louis…
Went to a concert last night of El Hadj N’Diaye - his group play traditional Senegalese folk music. Staying another night now too since there’s more music happening on the beach this afternoon.
I’m loving St. Louis - it’s a great town to relax [...]