A terrible Christmas eve.. 
We woke early in Dakar, 03.45 and were on our way shortly after four am, after a very good start, Tambacounda, the road deteriated drastically, we arrived at the Mali Border of Kidira. We were all exhausted and this must have been our lowest point of the trip.
However we crossed minutes before the border closed at 19.00 hrs. After running from, official to police check ins and outs customs in and out etc, we had a short drive before camping in the bush. A quick christmas eve hand shake and and a few beers later we soon retired. After a few hours we were awoken by a horrendous, thunderous noise. It turned out that in the dark we had managed to put up camp 15 yards from the railway line, and the rude awakening was that from the Bamako Express Train.

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