Taxi Bachee

Due to the delay we arrived in Mopti at about 03.30, Friday Morning, and having disembarked we were told the vessel wasn't going anywhere unbtil noon so we reboarded and went back to our bunks.

Redisembarked at 07.30 and went to the bank to change money where we met a Welshman amongst others who was travelling all over Africa, but poofily.

Having cambio'd we went to the Gare Routiere to look for a Taxi Bachee to Djenne, which, after much tooing and froing, haggling, waiting etc we were told it would leave at 12.

We had many offeres of guides for the Falaise, a sharp kid called Assou who spoke excellent English (Mali beat GB at table football 6-5) and a chap who asked for 100,000 - Just for his collection you understand!

Come 12 we were told the taxi would leace at 2 as a woman had gone to the mosque for a couple of hours. Eventually, things seemed to be happening so I went for a front corner seat - Seemed like a good idea, good view, cooling wind plenty of room - Wrong. Cooling wind was like a blast furnace, very dusty and absolutely no room - Extreme discomfort.Read more