1. I found all the medicine boxes, of course at the far end of the truck, so I had to move more than 100 other boxes first. Everything is in our car now, ready to be handed over to Mali Health Organizing Project on Sunday.

2. The stage today was short and beautiful, most of the time we spent in a national park. Chimps are said to live there, but we could not see any of them. Janos spotted some rhinos and we got very excited until we realized they were cows.

3. The body of the car of Duro racing team separated from the chassis (all bolts either broken or lost), together with 4 other teams we helped them to fix the car. Never lifted a car by hand before.

4. In the afternoon we went to the village Bambaran to hand over some gifts (torches, pens). We gave everything to the village chief and told him to distribute, but he put everything in his own pocket.

5. The camp site was beautiful, the Swiss teams started to prepare goulash from a gout they bought in the village. Everything looked perfect.

6. Around 8:30pm we realized that the fires around the camp were not those of nearby shepherds. A massive bush fire was approaching the camp. We decided to evacuate the camp. Had to leave the goat goulash behind :-(The departure was quite chaotic, the touring teams were supposed to set up camp a few kilometers away, but many of them continued to Bamako.

7. Because the first geo challenges of tomorrow are close to the camp, the last stage was started immediately. However, we soon realized that it is impossible to race in between and in the dust of all those touring cars. Hence we stopped and set up camp now in the middle of the bush.

8. We will continue tomorrow at 6am and hope to cross the finish line around 1pm.