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So there is no way that I can fit all the images from our three days and two nights in Pays Dogon but hopefully these few will suffice.

We went from (try to say all these names 3 times fast) Djiguibombo to Kani Kombole thru Tele and Ende to Begnemato and back. 

The nights were spent on the roofs staring up at what I can only discribe as the most fantastical display of stars I have every seen in my life after driving/trekking through the low country which was very dusty and bloody hot – – yes, yes people, I know it is the sahara but still!  It was rough trekking but the encampments along the way provided a place to kill the hottest part of the day (basically 11-4 pm) with lunch, card games and napping under makeshift hogons.

The surprises included oasis on the climb up to Begnemato with it's the onion fields and the stark, raw beauty of the place, the cliff dwelling much like those in the southwest …not to mention the stars…no wonder the Dogon people are credited with discovering the rings of Saturn.