In northern Mali, where the Sahel stretches a sandy plain up to Burkina Faso, lies the Dogon Country, home to the Dogon people, an ethnic group that lives generally undisturbed by civilization like they have been for a millennia.
Djenne is an island on Bani river, and also an island of medieval civilization in the north-west of Mali, where world’s largest mud-brick mosque rises.
Bamako is a sprawling metropolis, with scooters and cars entangled together in big traffic jams, with bridges thrown over the mighty Niger river which divides the capital in two.