Mali trip part 1 : The Dogon Country

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January 15th 2008

Published: January 16th 2008

Alright.. as Courtney and I took about 600 pictures during the whole trip and there are just so many of them, I decided to divide the Mali trip in Half so that I could put as many pictures as possible for you to see and also, so I wont get pissed off with the slow connection and just go a crappy job. Cause yeah, really, just to post this blog entry takes me a whole afternoon. So much for working e... Read Full Entry

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Nathalie Vallee

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I am a fourth year student in International Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. I am leaving in September 2007 on my co-op placement in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso for a duration of 8-12 months. Follow my adventures! "Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes" (Unknown)... full info

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Dancing!

Cooking in the village!

See the smoke going up next to the millet "grenier" (storage house).. beautiful village

Resting and Buying!

The serious Hike...

Half way up that crevassy mountain.. the gardens of the village above...

At the top.. a view

The animist village chief's house

The chief is the best hunter of the village.. you can see the furs and heads horning his walls..

At the real top! I made it!!!

We are on the top of those mountains, enjoying the beautiful view.. my only wish was to get there! About the socks in the sandals.. there is a really good reason: My feet sweat and it gets the sandals slippery. So in order not to twist an ankle.. I had to bypass the rule ok?

Courtney looking ahead

Thoughts just keep coming with the view

We could have sat there for hours, thinking about life and its meaning.. Courtney was right in it.. too bad the guide was rushing us

The Togona

This is the elder's place: a place to chat, think, smoke your pipe, do some little work, but mostly where important village decisions are taken. Why is the roof so low? Cause if you get pissed off and angry.. u'll feel it on your head! Good way of keeping people down huh?

Going back down..

Rock after rock.. ankles are key here!

Ridin' the charette back

We really enjoyed the charette.. in the picture.. the 3 girls and Jerome, our wonderful guide! Anyone interested? He's looking for a white girlfriend ahahha :P May God help you realise your dreams Jerome!!

Dogon Country done.. ahead for new adventures

Jerome stopped a car on the road and we hitched-hicked a ride down the serpent road. Ahead to Bandiagara for the night and then to new adventures, out of the Dogon Country

29th January 2008

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sounds like fun!
Francis is in El Salvador and I'm in Guatemala so hopefully we'll get fun visits too :)

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