| Bamako, Mali, September 28, 2005 |
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| Our first stop was an overlook of the city of Bamako. |
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| We met Jara, our guide for the day, last year on our cultural tour
of Mali with Carleton College's Alumni Adventures group. |
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| We visited the recycling market where everything
you can imagine is re-worked for a new purpose. Here a man is punching slots
in a grate to be used in a peanut sheller. In a roll reversal of what we saw
in our last visit to Mali, the woman is watching as the man is working! |
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| Here is finished product at the recycle market. This shop specializes in remanufactured cookstoves and kitchen utensils. |
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| The traffic in Bamako was most amazing. The green busses form a psuedo-public
transportation system. Very few people rode bicycles, though given the traffic congestion, I would fear for my life on a bicycle here. |
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