Dogon Country - Songho Photo Gallery by Brian McMorrow at pbase.com

Dogon Country - Songho

Songho is the first major Dogon Village off the road from Sévaré to Bandiagara. Of all the villages we visited, the kids in this one were the most annoying, though the village is beautiful and worth visiting nonetheless.

Major intersection in Sévaré where the Bamako-Gao road crosses the road from Mopti to Bangiagara in Dogon Country	Scenery between Sévaré and Bandiagara, Mali	On the right about 30 minutes from Sévaré	Our afternoon picnic stop, the only one of the whole trip that was truly beautiful
Picnic stop, Dogon Country	Picnic stop, Dogon Country	Picnic stop, Dogon Country	Picnic stop, Dogon Country
This is the edge of Dogon Country	Picnic stop, Dogon Country	Sori, the local guide we picked up in Mopti	Dogon Country looks a bit like the American west in places
African hut, Mali	Dogon donkey carts coming in from the fields	Ecole Fondamentale de Songho	Welcome to Songho
The Rotel at Songho	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	The granaries are rather interesting thatched huts	Millet, the West African staple food
Millet waiting to be stored in a granary	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	A new granary dated 2005 waiting for it's thatch
Dogon granary in Songho	A Dogon family in Songho	Dogon granary in Songho	Granary, Songho
Granary, Songho	Three granaries, Songho, Mali	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho is built at the base of several high cliffs
Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho, Pays Dogon, Mali	MaliNov06 1964.jpg	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali
Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	View from the cliff above Songho, Dogon Country	The village of Songho is famous for these cliff paintings
Cave paintings, Songo	Cave paintings, Songho	Paintings in the circumcision cave, Songho	Cave painting, Songo
Cave painting, Songo	Sori, the local guide from Mopti explaining the significance	Cave painting, Songo	Songho
Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali
Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Dogon village of Songho	Dogon displaying musical instruments
Although the Dogon are traditionally animist, each village has a mosque	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali
Songho	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho kids playing home-made musical instruments
Songho	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho	Mosque of Songho in the distance
Weaving looms, Songho	Weaver, Songho	Weaver, Songho	Songho, Dongon Country, Mali
Mohammed, in Arabic, on a building in Songho	Songho	Local handicrafts on sale to tourists in Songho	Local handicrafts on sale to tourists in Songho
Songho	Songho	Songho	Horse in the Dogon village of Songho
Songho	Sahel-style mosque at Songho	Although the Dogon are mostly non-Muslim, Islamic societies have built mosques in most villages	Mosque of Songho
Dogon "casa palava" or "to guna" near the mosque of Songho	Songho's Imam performing the call to prayer	Allahu Akbar	Mosque of Songho
Songho	Songho, Dogon country, Mali	Decoration on a Dogon house in Songho	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali
Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Songho, Dogon Country, Mali	Most of the village kids came out when we arrived	Bandiagara, the main settlement of Dogon Country, 11km from Songho
Bangiagara's gas station	Large mosque in Bandiagara, Mali	Centre Régional de Médecine Traditionnelle de Bandiagara	Bandiagara, Mali
Palace of Bandiagara	Palais Aguibou Tall de Bandiagara	Malicom - Malitel telephone shop, Bandiagara, Mali	Bandiagara, Mali
Bar-Restaurant in Bandiagara, Mali	Leaving Bandiagara, we passed through several small Dogon villages	Dogon village heading out of Bandiagara on the Dogon Plateau	Village on the Dogon Plateau
Village on the Dogon Plateau	Village on the Dogon Plateau	A dirt road leading to a Dogon village	Erosion outside Bandiagara, Dogon Country
Erosion outside Bandiagara, Dogon Country	Dogon Country, Mali	Dogon Country, Mali	The "Rotel Lineup", Dongonland
These small rectanguar fields are used for growing onions, Dogon Country	Dogon boy seeking to see onions	Dogon Country	Rotel crossing a dam on the Dogon Plateau
Lily pond, Dogon Plateau	Lillies in a pond formed by a dam	Lily pond, Dogon Plateau, on the road from Bandiagara to Tereli	Lily pads, Dogon country
Mosque in a Dogon village	Lunch on the roof of a minibus in Dogon Country	"An African bus is never full"	"Delta Force" bus, Dogon Country
Man riding the roof with the luggage and the livestock, Dogon Country	Dogon girls checking us out	Girls on the roadside, Pays Dogon	Recipients of our empty plastic water bottles
Palms on the road from Bandiagara back to Mopti	Nomad huts off the Bandiagara-Mopti Road	In 3 weeks, one of my very few wildlife shots - monkeys in Dogon Country	Village along the Bandigara-Mopti road
Village along the Bandigara-Mopti road	Waterhole along the Bandiagara-Mopti road	Livestock at the waterhole, Mali

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