Things to do in Mopti
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Satimbé Travel
Boat trips from Mopti on the Niger and/or Bani Rivers are one of the highlights of any trip to Mali, but they're also among the most daunting to organise. Satimbé Travel, an excellent company run by Issa Ballo, has been recommended as a pleasant and reliable local operator to deal with and most guides can make the arrangements on your behalf. Remember that longer boat trips are only possible from July or August to December when water levels are high.
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Bakaye Minedou Traore
Bakaye Minedou Traore operates a big pinasse to Timbuktu, while the 80m-long Baba Tigamba (known as Petit Baba) makes the journey on Friday afternoon. It has proper seats and even a small upper deck called, somewhat ambitiously, the cabine luxe! Smaller public pinasses should take about three days from Mopti to Korioumé, but with breakdowns and cargo stops they can take up to six.
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Restaurant Bar Bozo
While the food is average tourist fare and the service is incompetent (a two-hour wait for your meal to arrive is not unusual), Restaurant Bar Bozo is superbly located at the mouth of Mopti harbour. The passing panorama of Mopti river life could easily occupy an afternoon, so even if you don't eat here, stop by for a drink, preferably at sunset. It's a shame it starts running out of everything by 20:00.
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Restaurant Sigui
This popular place gets the thumbs-up from travellers for its hybrid of European, Asian and Malian dishes, with a few vegetarian options thrown in. It's the best place to eat in town. They cook up a mean capitaine a la Bamakoise (fried Nile perch with bananas and tomato sauce) among other dishes.
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Marché Souguni
At the Marché Souguni, to the southeast of town, traders sell fruit, vegetables, salt, fish and meat downstairs and art and crafts upstairs. A smaller market sells herbs, spices, traditional medicines and food stuff, and nearby is a small Bobo bar which features bellaphone music and millet beer.
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Misire Mosquée
The classic Sahel-style Misire Mosquée, built in 1933, towers over the old part of town. Just before the rains in May or June the lower, mud-covered part of the mosque is re-rendered. The mosque is off-limits to non-Muslims, but money can buy you a good view from a nearby rooftop.
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Mopti Port
Mopti's port is a lively place, where boats from up and down the river unload their cargoes. You'll see slabs of salt from Timbuktu, dried fish, firewood, pottery, goats, chickens and much more. Boat building happens next to Restaurant Bar Bozo.
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Bobo Bar
Numerous food stalls cluster around the gare routière, port and entrance to town. In the Old Town is a small Bobo Bar where bellaphone music is sometimes played, continuing as long as people keep drinking millet beer.
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Yérédémé Restaurant
In the southeast of the Old Town, opposite Stade de Taí'kiri, Yérédémé offers reasonable food served in a nice shady courtyard. It also sells mango and bissap jam and makes clothes to order.
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Centre d'Artisanat des Femmes Malades de Fistules
Opposite Hôtel Kanaga, just off Blvd de l'Indépendance, is Centre d'Artisanat des Femmes Malades de Fistules, a local association helping handicapped women and selling textiles and weaving.
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Songhay Shop Art Club
One of the best boutique-style shops in Mopti is the central Songhay Shop Art Club which is more expensive and largely fixed price, but its jewellery and textiles are good quality.
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Restaurant Baramuso
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This is the place for a wonderful cheap lunch in the centre of town.
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