Voyage au Pays Dogon
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That night was New Year's Eve, so we celebrated in appropriate fashion—with Dogon beer, which is made from millet, and seems to be the boisson of choice at any time for the Dogon. As you can see, Ian is a fan. I am not. However, I did manage to stay up until midnight.

 

 

 

 

The next day, we decended the falaise to the plain below.

 

 

 

 

 

The primary cash crop the Dogon produce is onions. In fact, when we went to the market in Terelli, virtually all that was for sale were onions and millet beer. The onion fields were filled with woman working.

But what really makes Dogon special is not the onions, it's the cliff dwellings. They reminded me a great deal of the cliff dwellings one finds in the American Southwest, such as in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, for example.

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