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Description of Bandiagara
This dusty village is the gateway to the Bandiagara Escarpment a rocky cliff 125 mi/200 km long that provides shelter to the fascinating Dogon people. The Dogon built a string of villages along the ridge and up high into the face of the cliff that can be seen on one-to eight-day hikes (guides...
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The
Dogon homeland is beside the 200 kilometre Bandiagara cliff that
sticks up from the desert in the centre of the country.
The Dogon travelled to this hot, dusty, remote area in the 15th
century when they were Animists - who believe that the sun, the
wind, trees and o
ther natural objects have souls- and were losing
battles with the larger Muslim community. Islam, however, still
found them and these days the 250,000 Dogon are mostly Muslim or
Christian with only a few Animists remaining.
