Travel Mali, Desert Music Festival, Festival On The Niger

Festival on the Niger

Overview

Jan - Feb 2018

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Journey across Mali by pinasse river boat
World heritage city of Djenné and its famous Grand Mosque
Dogon country trekking
Timbuktu

The Festival On The Niger , one of the best festivals in West Africa takes place in southern Mali at Segou at the beginning of February.

Segou is the former capital of the Bambara empire.

Your trip can include:

3-7 days travelling Mali along the river Niger
3 days trekking along the great Dogon escarpment between the villages of the Dogon people, sleeping out on the roofs of gîte-type village guest houses under the incredible stars that are so important to the animist Dogon system of belief.
Timbuktu and camel riding out into the desert to stay in a Tuareg camp with special "meshwi" meal, music and dance.
Option to go in search of the desert elephant around Hombori, Mali’s "monument valley".

Next trip Jan/Feb 2018

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Djenne Market with the Grande Mosque behind

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Lake Debo, River Niger

Where the Festival in the Desert represents the northern desert tradition in Mali, the Festival on the Niger celebrates the rich diversity of the heterogenous southern half of Mali.

Bambara, Dogon, Peul, Malinke, Mandé, Tuareg, Wollof, Burkina, Niger, Senegal, Côte D’Ivoire - all the great west African music traditions assemble here.

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Tuareg Tinde, Festival On The Niger

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