Into a land of vertical villages

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: June 25, 2004| Author: Michael Benanav | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

06-25-2004

Rising abruptly from the sub-Saharan savanna, the sheer Falaise de Bandiagara stretches for nearly 100 miles through Mali in West Africa. This dramatic Unesco World Heritage Site is the homeland of the Dogon people, who are renowned for their artwork and unique cosmology, and who live in adobe hamlets atop, beneath and terraced against the buff sandstone walls riddled with ancient cliff dwellings.The dirt paths and stone staircase...

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