Dogon Country

Mali Landscape

The Balazan tree
termite mound





Baobab tree
You can tell that we were in Mali during rainy season.

This shot was taken from the car, just before the storm hit.








small village with Bandigara escarpment in the background

Fishing on the Niger River near Mopti

People and Products of Mali

Marketplace in Djenne, Mali. Vieux, an English-speaking guide in Djenne, as well as a cloth tradesman.
Tailor's shop in Djenne, Mali.
This Djenne tailor was filming a television commercial on the day we visited.
Vegetables, laid out beautifully, tempting to the buyer.
Spices add flavor to the local food.
Women and children near Djenne, Mali
The women were shy, but agreed to a photograph.
This Fulani woman shows off beautiful gold earrings.
A lot of gold in each earring.
Ferryman ushers cars to and from Djenne.
Beautiful Fulani woman walking up the Bandiagara escarpment.
The Fulani people sell milk to other groups.
People on the banks of the Niger River in Mopti, boats preparing to go upriver to Timbuktu.
Colorful mats for sale by the water in Mopti.
Pottery for sale in Mopti.
Bamansa, chauffeur extrordinaire, buying some of his favorite fruit, the zabon, from a street vendor.

Mac, proprietor of Mac's Refuge in Sevare: http://www.geocities.com/malimacs/MacsRefuge.htm
touring the shop of "Peace Corps Baba"






Baba's shop is filled with treasures.








Carts pulled by donkeys follow the dirt road that parallels the highway.






Typical street merchants in Bamako

Ahmed Ibrah Landi, Tuareg jeweler, with some of his wares in the Bamako home of Hannah and Felipe.
Beautiful Tuareg jewelry
Tuareg leather designer and musician, Abou Bakary Yattara
Women doing hair is universal.
Fabric artist Mohammed Kamera (on right) with one of his tablecloths.
Refugees from war-stricken Sierra Leone have been welcomed in Mali, and here, support themselves dying tablecloths.
Pounding the millet....
...an important task everywhere in Mali
Mosa Sanogo, Bamako businesswoman who helped the police catch the "purse bandit" in 2005.
Mosa serves us a delicious traditional meal of chebu gen.
Bamako broom saleswoman
Can you spot the sheep?