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Boattrips
 

In a pinasse or a piroque, a wooden boat with a thatched roof, you leave the vibrant port of Mopti.
There is a lot of activity on and around the river. Women doing the washing, swimming kids, boats overloaded with merchandise on their way to Timbuktu.

Along the river Niger are beautiful villages with mud houses. Above the village towers a mosque.
The Bozo people, an ethnic group that lives on fishing, smoke their fish on the riverside.
You can spend the night under the starry sky on the bank of the river Niger.

Pinasse (motor)

Half a day
Visiting the Bozo village Kakalodaga, along the river Bani and a Peul village Ngoimi, along the river Niger.
There is beautiful mosque in Ngoimi.

1 Day
Boat trip from Mopti to Djenné (one way) on the river Bani. Visiting some Peul and Bozo villages.

2 Days
Visiting the beautiful mosque of Kotaka, a Peul village well known for the giant water jars the women make.
Spending the night on the bank of the river Niger. Visiting Konna, a small city where many different peoples live.
Visiting some Peul and Bozo villages.

3 Days
Boat trip to Lac Debo, a large lake in the middle of the dry savannah, famous for its large bird populations
and the presence of hippopotamuses. Visiting some Peul and Bozo villages.
Spending the night under the starry sky of the river Niger.

3 Days: TIMBUKTU
Boat trip (one way) to Timbuktu, the mysterious city of the Sahara, which everybody has to visit once in a lifetime.
Visiting some Peul and Bozo villages.
Spending the night on the bank of the river Niger.

Pirogue (a punt/ no motor)

2 hours: Visiting a Bozo village
3 hours: Visiting a Bozo and a Peul village along the river Niger

One and a half day
Boat trip on the river Bani and the river Niger. Visiting Kotaka, Ngoimi and other villages.
Spending the night on the bank of the river Niger.

Two Days
Boat trip to Konna (one way return by car). Visiting the beautiful mosque of Kotaka,
a Peul village well known for the giant water jars the women make.
Spending the night on the bank of the river Niger. Visiting Konna,
a small city where many different peoples live. Visiting some Peul and Bozo villages.
 
 

Pinasse (motor)
Groups

Half a day: visiting a Bozo and a Peul village. Price: 7.500 CFA p.p.
1 day: from Mopti to Djenne. Price: 35.000 CFA p.p.
2 days: visiting Konna. Price: 35.000 CFA p.p.
3 days: visiting Lac Debo. Price: 60.000 CFA per person.
3 days: From Mopti to Timbuktu. Price: 100.000 CFA p.p.

Piroque (no motor)
Groups

2 hours: visiting a Bozo village. Price: 10.000 CFA for a pirogue.
3 hours: visiting a Bozo and a Peul village. Price: 15.000 CFA for a pirogue.
One and a half day: visiting some villages. Price: 25.000 p.p.
Two days: visiting Konna. Price: 25.000 CFA per person.

Individual prices in our office
 
 

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B.P. 63 
Mopti  Mali
tel. 00.223.430.279 
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