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Visit:
- Legendary Timbuktu
- Dogon country, with its houses and granaries clinging to
sheer cliff walls
- Mopti, the Venice of Mali
- Djenne, one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites
- Bamako, Mali's capital city
- Mande country and its traditional gold mines
- Segou, the ancient Bambara capital
- Gao, capital of the Songhay Empire
- The Hand of Fatima, a natural rock formation in the Hombori
Mountains
- Djenne Jeno archeological site
- Lake Debo in the 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
- Attend a divination ceremony in a Dogon village
- Visit the Hogon, traditional leader of the Dogon people, in his
mountain sanctuary
- Join a camel caravan, from the salt mines in the
desert to Timbuktu
- Explore the sacred grotto of Missiri Koro
- Visit traditional pottery makers
Things to see:
- Mask dances in Dogon villages
- Tuareg silversmiths at work
- Colorful local markets
- Traditional weavers and dyers of mudcloth (bogolan)
- Bozo fishermen, masters of the Niger
- Hippos in the Niger River
- Djenne's Grande Mosque, the world's largest mud-brick structure
- The Takamba, traditional Tuareg dance
- Elephants in the Douentza Reserve
- Traditional Sudanese and Moroccan architecture
- Fulani cattle herders
- Ancient Tellem cave dwellings
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