I am in Djenne for the Monday Market.
The mud mosque, the biggest mud structure in the whole world, forms a spectacular background to the market. All buildings in Djenne are made from Mud - no concrete anywhere. We slept on the roof of one last night. The city is surreal - surrounded by water on all sides (we took a ferry here) with no tar roads and spectacular 3 story mud buildings.
Surprisingly, a lot of locals can speak broken english which is nice our french skills extend from "Bonjour, sava?" to "I want food". Tomorrow we leave for Sevare, then to Mopti and then a 3 day boat trip on the Niger river to Timbuktu (!!). After T I take a 4WD to Mopti then to Bamako by bus. A night or two in Bamako and then I'll head to Bobo in Burkina for another 2 days before returning to Ghana. Well that's the plan anyway.
I will post about Malian music and Dogon Country when I get back.
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Wow... now this (and the last post) sound awesome. I am surprised you survived given your lack of awareness of your general surroundings (as we witnessed in Mexico, Cuba, China, etc.)
I am jealous now.
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