Soon , soon the high season will be upon us. Now is the last week of relative calm before the big storm.
About ten days ago I took advantage of this calm and went to Timbuktu, courtesy of the Mission Culturelle’s 4X4 with driver. (The Mission Culturelle is the state run office which is put in place to safe guard Djenne’s UNESCO Heritage status, amongst other things. )
I went with Samake, an archaeologist by training and second in command at the Mission Culturelle here.