Day 2 : Hike down the “falaise du pays Dogon.”
Our van dropped us off at the top of the cliff in Sangha. Full of promise, everyone in the group decided to go for it: the Plan was to hike down the cliff, and spend the night in a village below; the next day hike back up the cliffs. Ling ling climbed down the wet rocks in her clogs.


(We found a Telem!)

At the beginning of the hike a bunch of kids were following us (spoiled by tourists, unfortunately), but then it was just us among the rocks, the Baobab trees, the black & white sheep, the little Smurf-like Dogon villages and the sandy plains stretching out all the way to Burkina Faso.

(Dogon villages on perched on the face of the cliffs).

That night we slept on the roof of a “campement” (or mostly listened to the donkeys and goats shrieking). It was almost a full moon and you could see the contours of the cliffs and even the straw cone roofs of the village.