(If you've missed any of the previous posts about Africa, then you can find them all here)
All our adventures so far in the Dogon Country where at the top of the escarpment, and now it was time to descend. To descend down this ...
... over great big rifts that fall down to ... erm, I'm not sure what was at the bottom because it was so far down you couldn't see the bottom!! And these flimsy looking sticks are what you use to scramble across the big gaps ...
I was wearing birkenstocks (which were the only shoes I'd brought on the hike with me), and they were totally useless. They kept falling off and making me slip, so I ended up taking them off. And while the next picture is in the shade, the vast majority of the walk was NOT in the shade and the rocks we were walking over were hot. Very very hot. My feet did not thank me.
But then we reached the bottom and had lunch here ...
... gazing back up the cliffs where we'd come from.
I'm not a big soft-drink/pop drinker, but I have never been as glad to see a coke as I was that day.
We rested for a while, and then continued on. Not much really happened (to do with toilets or otherwise), so here's a few piccies ...
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| It was very very cold at night.... and very very dark. Thus the attire. |
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| Blacksmithing Africa stylie ... |
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| Water collection... |
On our journey through the Dogon Country, we met an amazing Irish woman, Kay, and her guide Mikael. They were both a lot of fun, and also on their way to Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. We arranged to travel down with them (for a price of course) which was a relief, since neither Allison nor I spoke French very well, so getting through the border without a visa may have been a little bit of a challenge!!
Photo's by both Allison AND Liffey in this post! *very smug photographer*
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