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Mali

3 places
Once the seat of one of the richest empires in history, whose ruler Mansa Musa may have been the wealthiest person who ever lived, Mali gave the world the fabled cities of Timbuktu and Djenné and a deep well of music, though its north is now troubled.

The South (Bamako & Djenné)2 places

DjennéPoint · ●●●●○The largest mud-brick building in the world, a magnificent, spiky-walled Great Mosque that is re-plastered by the whole…
The Dogon CountryNature · ●●●●○A dramatic sandstone escarpment where the Dogon people built villages into the cliffs and terraces, keeping one of…

The North (Timbuktu & the Sahara)1 place

TimbuktuTown · ●●●●○The name that stands, in many languages, for the most remote place on earth, once a fabled Saharan city of gold, salt…