Ségou and the Middle Niger Travel Guide

Explore Ségou Along the Niger, Ségou offers adobe houses, pottery workshops, and daily river barges. Explore San San sits near seasonal waterways and busy markets where millet and cattle trade hands; clay homes and mosque minarets punctuate the skyline. Explore Bla A Ségou-Region market town where weekly markets trade millet, livestock and cloth; travelers pass through to Ségou and the Niger River. Explore Markala Across the Niger banks, Markala is dominated by irrigation canals and the big hydraulic headworks - visitors come to watch river traffic, market life on the floodplain, and the engineering that irrigates Ségou’s rice fields. Explore Nara Where Sahel meets scrub, Nara’s dusty streets host a bustling weekly market, camel trading and mud-brick compounds.