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It was early morning, but the West African sun had already begun to bully its way across the sky, pounding its heat down upon parched, straw-colored scrubland. We walked along a path that wound through a grove of hardy trees, where a camel -- probably a fugitive from a Sahara Desert caravan in the north -- craned its neck to reach some leaves.
It was January in the Dogon, the remote, austere outback that takes its name from the people who harvest millet and sweet onions from the grudging soil. While the Republic of Mali is famous for its music and the ancient former empire of Timbuktu, the arid, otherworldly landscape of the Dogon, tucked in the country's eastern edge, draws travelers from around the world.See the full content of this document
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Mali's Dogon Country Impresses with Its Authenticity
They come to experience the brooding majesty of the Bandiagara escarpment, a glowering sandstone cliff face pocked with the ancient dwellings of the Tellem, a mysterious Pygmy-size people who vanished centuries ago. Their bones and artifacts remain entombed in the cliff's walls....
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