The Niger, as with most great rivers cutting a swath through a country, serves as a lifeline.Food through fishing, agriculture through irrigation - and most importantly, commerce.
Even as waters are still receding in the "dry season", boats plied the waters from Mopti downriver to Korioume, Gao and beyond.
Lac Debo more than trebles in size, opening great channels where the big ships can ply their trade for a few precious months.
Lucky for us, our wee boat was a little roomier than these - which, if you're enterprising, you can catch a ride on all the way down river to Tim.
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Wow. It's a wonder that thing stays afloat! It looks sort of like the river equivalent of the carts you see piled high and wobbling down narrow streets in Asia, somehow balancing more than I could ever fit into my minivan.
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