Originally they were cliff-dwellers, and now they live mostly on the plateau ... a sudden screech signaled the first of many barnyard-animal sacrifices to feed our group.Our first real Dogon village, ...

The ancient walking trails that connect each Dogon village with the next are now frequented ... ancient cocoon-like cemeteries attached themselves to the cliff face in centuries past, while ...

DOGON COUNTRY, Mali — The woman ... and deliberately through the historic playground. The cliff was eerily quiet compared to the village below, which was dotted with inhabited mud huts and ...

Halfway up a cliff in southern, central Mali, the sounds of a modern Dogon village float up from the brush-filled plain below. To reach the tiny, isolated villages of the Dogon, most foreign ...

Mahmadou, who came from southern Mali and who had rarely visited Dogon ... top of the village a huge sandstone overhang loomed; beneath it was a series of abandoned, ancient cliff dwellings ...

This stark and stunning landscape; rugged and harsh, is home to the cliff-dwelling Dogon people ... smoke and discuss matters of the village. Women are banned, and instead have special houses ...

During our recent trip to Mali, we visited a village particularly renowned for ... One day we hiked to three Dogon cliff villages: Youga Na, Youga Dougourou and Youga Piri, which we were told ...