Mopti Mali Ouahigouya
How's that for a bunch of wacky names? I'm in Mopti now just come from pays Dogon which is probably the capital of natural buiding anywhere. Ever. I mean there are cities that blend so well you can't tell, from a height, where they start and the mountain ends. The villages built into the escarpment, the falaise, are based on an older design, of the Tellem people, who probably copied the little mud-building spiders that inhabit the caves, cause their houses look the same. But who knows? Maybe the spiders copied the Tellem. Now I'm in Mopti, called the Venice of Mali, getting ready to head to Djenne, where the world's largest mud mosque is, the world's largest mud building. It's amazing and if I get any more excited I think I'll explode. Plus french keyboards are hard. Still, thinking of home and excited for my return.