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Bankass
Travel Blogs from Bankass, Mali
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Tibra Streaks & Squeaks Her Way Across Dogon Count
... ;‘s old-age knee. only to find out that our first day trek was a grand total of 3 kilometers along a flat road. Trekking in Mali must be like beauty- it’s all in thee eye of the beholder?? Our guide for Dogon Country has only one gear and that ...
Across the border
... , who's English seemed OK. Although Eric couldn't vouch for him personally, I thought that the people I'd met so far from the Bankass guides association seemed pretty switched on, so I got him to outline a possible itinerary, and told him I'd stay in ...
Koro, January 12, 2009 - Monday
... of what we in the west for decades had been taking for granted. There was this small town – or village - of Bankass that we passed through, which had not been electrified before 2006. And they proudly announced that fact on a roadside signboard. ...
Day 4: Off to the Dogon
... cross my mind I might freeze to death in the Sahara! However, I make it through to 6am and only 25mins late (bang on, Mali time) Boubakar (Bouba for short) shows up and we head off to Dogon country. Talk about beaming down to a different ...
Utolso este Dogon countryban... vagy megsem?
Igaz, hogy elozo nap korbejartuk nagyjabol Endet, de azert reggel tettunk meg egy kort. Sok ujat nem lattunk, inkabb csak sok uj emberrel talalkoztunk, es minthogy Aly Endebol szarmazik, persze neki az emberek nagytobbsege, majdnem csaladtag volt, es itt ...
Pays Dogon
Kani-Kombolé-Teli-Ende Thanx Michel&Issa! Misterious cosmos, fascinating people,beautiful architecture and too much ...
Dogon Trek to Tireli, Mali, Nov 15 - 16, 2007
... one of the top destinations in Mali and all of West Africa. The region consists of roughly 700 villages in east central Mali, most of which can be reached only on foot, which are situated both above and below the Bandiagara Escarpment's ...
Dogon Mask Dance, Tireli, Mali, November 16, 2007
The Dogon people are a favorite subject among anthropologists for their Animist religious beliefs which have survived despite being surrounded by other tribes that converted to Islam and for their elaborate rituals and ceremonies, most notable of which ...
OUT OF MALI: (…leavin’ on a jet phh-la
... in the east for a year. He was a senior officer and shed a lot of insight into the realities of living in Mali – something that tourists normally can’t observe. We then chatted generally about my travels, Mali and inevitably went on to talk ...
Mar 19, 2011
Ils sont fous, ces Dogons
... c'est comme ça qu'on appelle les embarcations faites de planches de bois, presque les seules embarcations qu'on retrouve au Mali à part les pirogues (plus petites, directement taillées dans des troncs d'arbres) et un ou deux très grands bateaux de ...
Zu Fuss von Dorf zu Dorf
Das Dogonland im Osten Malis ist sehr speziell – die Dörfer der Dogon (die hier lebende Volksgruppe) schmiegen sich an eine über 100 Kilometer lange Felsklippe und wir sind von einem Dorf zum nächsten gewandert. Innerhalb von vier Tagen haben ...
Shopping and Tr**king
Second and last night in Dogon country and not too much to report as it's been a fiarly easy one. Night was fine and actually rather warm - had to keep kicking back my sleeping bag. However, gusts of wind and various animals (of both the 2 legged and ...
Mar 19, 2011
Gana bali, Dogon
... sun, we put away our tent and got on a horse cart. In the dawn light we slowly moved through the quiet streets of Bankass to the countryside. On the road to the escarpment Baba told us the oral history of the Dogon. The collective memory stretched back ...
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