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SUNDRY ITEMS
You can rent a car or a boat at Savane Tours
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You need a valid passport. A visa is obligatory for everybody except for subjects of the CEDEAO. Contact the Malian Consulate or Embassy in your country for information concerning the obtainment of a visa: In the United States:
Embassy
of In Canada: Malian Embassy, 50 Goulburn Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z, 7S3, tel. 1613 232 1501, e-mail ambassademali@bellnet.ca website: www.ambamalicanada.org On this website you can find the addresses of different consulates. Germany: www.konsulate.de
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From mid-December till the end of April "Point-Afrique" assures weekly connections between Paris-Bamako for very reasonable prices. For more information:
Point-Afrique,
Le Village 07700 Bidon,
tel: 0 820 000 154 ou 04 75 97 20 40 "Nouvelles Frontières" flies weekly from Paris to Bamako with Corsair. For more information: 87, Bd de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, tel. 0825 000 825, www.nouvelles-frontieres.fr, minitel 36-15 code NF Air Algeria has flights from Brussels or Paris to Bamako for reasonable prices www.airalgerie.dz When traveling from the UK, look at http://www.justtheflight.co.uk/cheap-flights/BKO-bamako.html When traveling from the USA, look at www.cheap-flight-to.com You can also fly with Air France www.airfrance.com or Air Maroc www.royalairmaroc.com but these flights are more expensive.
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A yellow fever vaccination certificate is obligatory. Advices for other vaccinations vary. You better contact a health care center or a center for tropical diseases in your region, or get your information from the internet: All countries: www.tripprep.com Travel Clinics across Canada: www.hc-sc.gc.ca Australia: www.travelclinic.com.au South Africa: www.travelclinic.co.za
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Contact your insurance company for a travel insurance and ask the airline company to insure your flight.
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We advise you to travel with francs CFA or with Euros, which you can easily change into FCFA (1 euro = 655 FCFA) in all banks in the country. Other currencies or cheques aren't easy to change.
For lunch and dinner, plan a
total sum of ± 10.000 FCFA (16 euro) a day. The price of your room depends
on the hotel where you booked. If you want to buy souvenirs,
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Mali has a dry tropical climate, which is influenced by the harmattan (a hot and dry wind) and a monsoon wind (humid wind which brings rain). One distinguishes three seasons : The rainy season (from June to October) is the period of agricultural activity ; The rivers are navigable and the landscape becomes green ; the temperatures are supportable (± 25°C, 77° F); the disadvantage is that many small roads are not practicable; The cold season ( November - February ) is the best tourist season ; all roads are practicable and temperatures are agreeable in the whole country (± 20-25°C, 68-77°F ); The warm and dry season (March - June) is a period of great warmth (± 38-40°C, 100-104°F).
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You should bring enough light clothes. Women are supposed to cover their legs till the knee. Bring a jumper for the evening in the cold season (November - February). It's agreeable to wear trousers, a blouse with long sleeves and stockings in the evening to prevent mosquitoes to bite you. You can also bring anti-mosquito milk. If you choose a sportive and adventurous or a natural tour have to bring a sleeping bag because the nights can be cold in the villages! NB We cannot garantuee that you will find mosquito-net in every hotel room, so we advise you to bring one. Return to the table of contents
Malian time and telephone number In Mali it's universal time. The telephone number of Mali is 223
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