Mali hasn’t been as difficult place to be as I had imagined, especially with the amount of pre-trip preparation that was required. But I’m glad I took the vaccinations, especially the “Yellow Fever”, for there was actually an employee at the airport checking everybody’s Yellow Fever vaccination card (mine was yellow in colour!) before letting them into the country (officially)! Despite numerous warnings by my GP and friends, I haven’t had “travellers’ diarrhoea”…so far! May be we Nepali have good digestive system!

It is really hot here though (min 25-26, max 41-42 degrees), although all the meeting venues, hotel room are AC-ed so you only notice the heat when you are outside.

Zade & BB, I think I’m done with trying to make “Political Commentary” in this blog anymore. I’ll be changing the description of my “About” section on the side to reflect that soon…Funny thing, I heard about the formation of new govt in Nepal here from a German colleague involved in the same project! He speaks some Nepali too! But I couldn’t be bothered to check out the details, so thats that for Nepali political know-how!

Well, hopefully I get down to write a blog entry before I leave Mali…that would be “cool”…considering how hot it is out here