A few donkey-drawn carts make their way along the road, lugging heavy blocks of granite for the stone village houses.
He started work as a "donkey-boy" in a quarry at the age of six, leading a donkey-drawn cart full of tools to the smithy to be sharpened.
He maintained a traditional London trolley and was often seen navigating suburban streets in this donkey-drawn cart.
Safely down, we trudge into Govedartsi, past ancient wattle-and-daub barns and locals with donkey-drawn carts.
Outside, in the square before the Speaker's house, a group of four Kagonesti elves waited with a small, donkey-drawn cart.
Outside, donkey-drawn carts vie for space with Toyota Land Cruisers, and three-wheel motorized rickshaws dodge bangled buses and pedestrians.
People came and went, Senegalese and Gambians alike, most sitting on donkey-drawn carts.
The lack of buses, taxis or even the donkey-drawn carts you find in the rest of Mali is explained by the fact that there is nowhere to go.
Most of the transport in the little town still consisted of donkey-drawn carts.
In those days, coal was mined by dynamite and the backs of men loading it into donkey-drawn carts.