Adam has once again been up to a serious amount in Africa and is currently on the Niger River.

The Niger is the route Adam and his travelling amigos have chosen for getting to their next destination,

“There are three main ferries that the COMANAV company have going from just outside Bamako, travelling all the way along the Niger to Gao, in far east Mali.”

Adam’s description of the journey conjures up images of Indiana Jones in Raiders, which sounds great. However the reality of cramped rooms, livestock on deck and the culinary highlight being a meal having the addition of boney goat might not be for everyone. Despite this, and ‘painfully slow’ progress at times, the views the trip offered were amazing. One morning in particular they awoke to find themselves surrounded by water as the floated through a part of the river that is 30km wide,

“You could barely see land on the horizon. There were occasional strips of reed, blowing in the strong wind, or a few birds flying past, but apart from that we were alone in the middle of nowhere. A pretty cool experience.”

The journey had a few stops along the way and you can read about what each entailed for Adam and his pals in his post. One in particular that was a rather rude awakening…