A travel invitation (challenge, perhaps)?

For those of you who don't already know, yes it's true - I'm leaving my post at Syama come the end of November. It's been a wild and crazy ride and I've had a very good time, and met some wonderful people ... but Paris is calling me, loudly.

And I always like to leave the party when it's peaking!

So - my challenge to you is this: all those people who've been telling me for the last (almost) two years, "Mali Ali, wow, we'll DEFINITELY come and see you there, would LOVE to go to Timbuktu, the pays Dogon ...", now is your chance!

So is there the faintest possibility that anyone of you out there fancies a ten day trip from Bamako to Syama (where you will join me), and we will take ourselves on a roadtrip to Ouagadougou, via Bobo-Dialasso then on to Dogon country, Timbuktu, and back to Bamako along the mighty Niger? The sweetener after all that hot and dusty travel would be a couple of recovery days in Paris at the end.

Any takers?