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Dogon village on the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali, West Africa

Dogon village on the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali,West Africa


Places to Visit –


• Legendary Timbuktu, gateway to the Sahara Desert

• fascinating Dogon country, with its houses and granaries clinging to sheer cliff walls

• Mopti, Mali's trade center and cultural 'melting pot'

• Djenne, one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites

• Bamako, Mali's dynamic capital city

• Mande country and its traditional gold mines

• Segou, former French colonial capital

• Gao, of the Songhay Empire

• Hand of Fatima,
natural rock formation in the Hombori Mountains

• Djenne Jeno archeological site

• Lake Debo of the inland
Niger River Delta

Things to do –


• camel treks in the desert

• hiking the Bandiagara escarpment

• camping on the Sahara sand dunes

• sailing the Niger River

• 4x4 vehicle excursions in the desert

• witness a traditional divination ceremony in a Dogon village

• visit the Hogon, traditional leader of the Dogon people, in his mountain sanctuary

• track elephants in the Douentza Reserve

• explore the sacred grotto of Missiri Koro

• visit traditional pottery makers

• attend a colorful local festival:
Festival in the Desert
or
Festival on the Niger

Sights to see –


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• traditional mask dances in Dogon villages

• colorful local markets

• Tuareg silversmiths at work

• traditional weavers and dyers of mudcloth (bogolan)

• Bozo fishermen, masters of the Niger

• Djenne's Great Mosque, the world's largest mud-brick architecture

• hippos in the Niger River

• Takamba, traditional Tuareg dance

• camel caravans from the salt mines in the desert

• nomadic Fulani cattle herders

• ancient Tellem cave dwellings

• camel races in the desert

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