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Travel Blogs from Bankass, Mali

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Tibra Streaks & Squeaks Her Way Across Dogon Count, Kani-Kombolé, Mali travel blog

Tibra Streaks & Squeaks Her Way Across Dogon Count

A travel blog entry by tdv95

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... ;‘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, Bankass, Mali travel blog

Across the border

A travel blog entry by withmeryltomali

... , 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, Koro, Mali travel blog

Koro, January 12, 2009 - Monday

A travel blog entry by the_wayfarer

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... 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, Ende-Toro, Mali travel blog

Day 4: Off to the Dogon

A travel blog entry by tim_buktu2

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... 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?, Kani-Kombole, Mali travel blog

Utolso este Dogon countryban... vagy megsem?

A travel blog entry by ahajni

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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, Dogon Country, Mali travel blog

Pays Dogon

A travel blog entry by fabiolaschnider

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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, Tireli, Mali travel blog

Dogon Trek to Tireli, Mali, Nov 15 - 16, 2007

A travel blog entry by modernnomad67

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... 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, Tireli, Mali travel blog

Dogon Mask Dance, Tireli, Mali, November 16, 2007

A travel blog entry by modernnomad67

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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, Koro, Mali travel blog

OUT OF MALI: (…leavin’ on a jet phh-la

A travel blog entry by zeeshanv

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... 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, Téli, Mali travel blog

Mar 19, 2011

A travel blog entry by nikenkatrien

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Mar 20, 2011, Endé, Mali travel blog

Mar 20, 2011

A travel blog entry by nikenkatrien

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Mar 20, 2011, Yabatalou, Mali travel blog

Mar 20, 2011

A travel blog entry by nikenkatrien

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Nie mehr zurück nach Mali!, Kourémalé-Bamako-San-Djenné-Bankass-Teli-Yabatalu-Ende, Mali travel blog

Nie mehr zurück nach Mali!

A travel blog entry by juttachris

xxx ...

Mar 21, 2011, Indelou, Mali travel blog

Mar 21, 2011

A travel blog entry by nikenkatrien

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Ils sont fous, ces Dogons, Enndé, Mali travel blog

Ils sont fous, ces Dogons

A travel blog entry by mariondemers

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... 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, Dogon, Mali travel blog

Zu Fuss von Dorf zu Dorf

A travel blog entry by catgco

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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, Some village on the top of the Dogon escarpement, Mali travel blog

Shopping and Tr**king

A travel blog entry by idletraveller

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, Djiguibambo, Mali travel blog

Mar 19, 2011

A travel blog entry by nikenkatrien

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Mar 19, 2011, Kani Kombolé, Mali travel blog

Mar 19, 2011

A travel blog entry by nikenkatrien

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Gana bali, Dogon, Bankass, Mali travel blog

Gana bali, Dogon

A travel blog entry by choy

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... 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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