Bamako

Yesterday evening (wedenesday) we arrived safely in Bamako, captial of Mali I am not sure, when I will be able to send the postprobably not before entering Burkina Faso.
Now I am sitting in the air conditionned garage (Toyota and Peugeot), while Thomas tries to get some new shock absorbers. On the last kilometers, the car sounded very african.... kind of like having some empty tins jumping around in the enginge compartiment. The left shockabsorber is definitely out of service.