It’s not uncommon here to see vehicles piled so high their center of gravity is a little unstable. Transporting goods from one place to another is an important part of the economy here, and we see all sorts of transporters–from wheelbarrows to donkey carts to three wheeled motorcycles like the one above, piled high with straw for animal feed.
From time to time, a vehicle must swerve to miss another, or a wheel edges off onto the shoulder, throwing everything out of kilter. Today I saw 3 overturned loads as we traveled back to Bamako. This one pictured was the smallest and most easy to correct.
The other tipped loads we passed today were large trucks like this one (photo by my good friend, Djiba). This truck is piled high with bags of coal for cooking fires. It’s not uncommon to see an entire truck lying on it’s side with the once-neatly-stacked load strewn all over the roadside. What a shame after such an engineering feat to load it so carefully!
Our Cote d’Ivoire Abidjan East and Bamako, Mali Mission 