Sikasso
Sikasso is a city in the south of Mali and the capital of the Sikasso Cercle and the Sikasso Region.
Sikasso is a city in the south of Mali and the capital of the Sikasso Cercle and the Sikasso Region. It is Mali's second largest city with 225,753 residents in the 2009 census. The city is a large centre and trading port, and was the capital of the Kénédougou Kingdom between 1877 and 1898.
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Worth seeing in and around Sikasso
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Roman Catholic Diocese of Sikasso
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sikasso, French: Diocèse catholique romain de Sikasso) is a diocese located in the city of Sikasso in the ecclesiastical province of Bamako in Mali.
800 m · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia - 02Stade Babemba Traoré
Stade Babemba Traoré is a multi-use stadium in Sikasso, Mali. It is currently used mostly for football matches.
3.6 km · building in Mali · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Some touristic sites:
- 01The Mamelon
Located in the city centre, the Mamelon hill used to be a sacred site of the Kénédougou kings.
From Wikivoyage: Sikasso, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Sikasso
- Airports
- Bobo Dioulasso (BOY), 147 km · Modibo Keita (BKO), 283 km
- Stations
- Sikasso Airport, 4.4 km
- Bamako → Sikasso289 km · quickest by road, 10h 32m · $28–39
- Timbuktu → Sikasso671 km · quickest by air, 11h 39m · $510–740
- Bobo Dioulasso → Sikasso150 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · $14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Sikasso
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sikasso. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Sikasso – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.