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Bamako - Kayes Railway

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1 review of Bamako - Kayes Railway

Trains in Africa

The train which goes from Bamako to Kayes, on the Mali and Senegal border, usually takes sixteen hours. It then crosses the border, and continues to the city of Dakar, taking another fifteen hours. In fact, it takes roughly 3 days, and is increasingly delayed. It might be that you take the train on Monday but in reality it's Fridays train that never showed up. For a European, it's weird, annoying and disturbing, but for Africans, that is just how it is. You have to relax and avoid doing anything last minute. You can almost never buy tickets last minute because everyone had to leave the week before.

The train is overcrowded, with women and all their children and a giant pot of oily rice, that children are eating by hand, the rice falls on the ground, the train is a mess, the bathroom is a hole in the floor of the train, and generally, when the train stops, almost always without reason in the middle of nowhere, everyone runs from the train to go to the bathroom behind a tree. Some vendors appear out of nowhere to sell food and drinks. It is a very old train that was brought from France and other than the price there is not much difference between first and second class.
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