SAGA TOURS of Mali - West Africa Adventure Travel

Saga Tours of Mali - West Africa Adventure Travel
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MALI, the jewel of West Africa — visit Djenne, Mopti, Dogon country, Timbuktu and Bamako

Places to Visit –
• Fascinating Dogon country, with its stone houses and granaries clinging to sheer cliff walls
• Mopti, Mali's trade center and cultural 'melting pot'
• Djenne, one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites
• Legendary Timbuktu, gateway to the Sahara Desert
• Bamako, Mali's dynamic capital city
• Mande country and its traditional gold mines
• Segou, former French colonial capital
• Gao, of the Songhay Empire
• the Hand of Fatima, natural rock formation in the Hombori Mountains
• Djenne Jeno archeological site
• Lake Debo of the inland Niger River Delta

Things to do –
• hiking the Bandiagara escarpment
• camel treks in the desert, with camping on the Sahara sand dunes
• sailing the Niger River
• 4x4 vehicle excursions in the desert
• witness a traditional divination ceremony in a Dogon village
• visit the Hogon, traditional leader of the Dogon people, in his mountain sanctuary
• track elephants in the Douentza Reserve
• explore the sacred grotto of Missiri Koro
• visit traditional pottery makers
• attend a colorful local festival: the Festival in the Desert or the Festival on the Niger

Sights to see –
• traditional mask dances in Dogon villages
• colorful local markets
• Tuareg silversmiths at work
• traditional weavers and dyers of mudcloth (bogolan)
• Bozo fishermen, masters of the Niger
• Djenne's Great Mosque, the world's largest mud-brick architecture
• hippos in the Niger River
• Takamba, traditional Tuareg dance
• camel caravans from the salt mines in the desert
• nomadic Fulani cattle herders
• ancient Tellem cave dwellings

SAGA TOURS - the best travel experience in Mali and West Africa.