Snapshots - Dogon Bandiagara Escarpment 3

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Looking down at a town at the base of Bandiagara escarpment, Mali, June 1998
Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre


From the top of the high cliffs of Dogon country one can look down at the villages built on the rocky lower slopes. The Dogon people moved into this area in about 1500 AD, and now live in villages at both the top and the bottom of the cliffs.







revised February 23, 1999