Our friends Miquel and Elia travel Africa extensively for work and they always bring their Timbuk2 bags. They were kind enough to share stories and photos from their travels. See Miquel’s photos and commentary below and check out this husband and wife duo’s latest adventure, their our own food and wine business, Rodaplats.
Elia in Yamoussoukro, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire. This was the pet project of the former President-for-life Houphouet Boigny who turned his home village in to a pretty crappy largish town in the center of the country. The columns are part of a large basilica that he built to copy St. Peter’s in Rome.
Across the Niger River from Ségou, Mali where we visited a village that makes a wide assortment of pottery.
This is descending the Bandiagara Escarpment in the Dogon Country of Mali. That tree trunk with carved steps was a pretty common ladder that you’d see in the area. Definitely an impressive 15km hike.
Cliff paintings of Songo, Mali in Dogon Country. A local elder was taking us on a tour and had me sit where they do the ritual circumcisions on the boys. Interestingly, women are only allowed in the area if they’re not African and this includes African American women.
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