Hey Fellow's
We just got into Mali three days ago and this is our experience:
We entered Mali at Gogui in the afternoon at 16.00 and where force to go with a escort to Nioro to the Gendarmerie. This costed us 7000UM each. In Nioro the escort showed us all the places to arrange everything (5000CFA for not having a CdP).
The night we had to spend at the gendarmerie headquarters in Nioro since there is no hotel in town. Costs zero !!! The next morning we where told that we needed a escort to Diema for 15.000CFA and from there on to Bamako. We didn't like it and discussed a lot with the chief and gave him a hard time. We didn't pay till three hours later. We went to Diema and there we had another argument with the escort guy that we didn't go to Bamako. After a telephone call to his boss he gave us our passports back.
All the rest very friendly government officials.
Cheers
PS we are Dutch and Italian motor-bikers.
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