Mali

I have finally gotten around to posting some photos from my trip. Don't worry I'll post more later, but I figured it would be better if I just started posting a few at a time. Eventually I'll get around to maybe putting them all on my photo page.


This is a traditional fishing boat on the Bani river just outside Djenne, prounnounced "jenne". Djenne is a traditonal old, old mud city and home to the largest compleatly mud Mosque in the world. This was the first place we stopped on our trip north and one of the coolest places we went.


This is the village we stayed in, you can see that everything was made from mud. There was no electricity or running water obviously, it was really awesome to get to hang out here for a night.


These kids were hanging out to see what was going on the first time we blew a tire on the way to the Dogon country. This particular girl was less shy than the others and let me take her picture. Lots of the kids play with tires and role them around with sticks.


This is the woman I bought Mom's fabric from, she is showing us samples of her work here. When we bought the fabric she had to do the transaction through a man and we had to give the money to him and so he could give it to her. Very strange patriarchal customs.


A lot of people especially in the villages had handicaps. This young man was lucky enough to have a hand cranked wheelchair, but a lot of people can be seen pulling themselves around by their arms or dragging none functional legs. It's amazing how good our health care system really is.


Most young woman had a bady and they always just tied them on and went about their work. They are pretty rough with the babies too and swing them around by an arm to tie them on. This woman is shopping at a market in a little town just south of Bamako.


There were donkeys everywhere, they are mostly used to pull carts in the village. They are tiny too, much smaller than Charley, and so cute!