Mali

The Niger River at Mali's capital city of Bamako, where the river is wide and seasonal sandbanks appear, creating a striking urban waterfront and the setting for Bamako's evening promenade.

A 150-kilometre sandstone cliff running east to west in central Mali, the homeland of the Dogon people and a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of cliff dwellings, plateau villages, and sacred geography.

A traditional Dogon cliff village at the base of the Bandiagara Escarpment, with distinctive architecture, a working toguna assembly platform, and panoramic views over the Sahel from the clifftop above.

The largest mud-brick building in the world, begun in 1907 on the site of an earlier 13th-century mosque, standing in the market town of Djenné on the Bani River floodplain.

Mali's third-largest city and the commercial heart of the central Sahel, situated at the confluence of the Niger and Bani rivers, with a bustling port, a distinctive Great Mosque, and access to the major tourist destinations of the Dogon Country and the Inner Niger Delta.

A legendary Saharan city at the southern edge of the Sahara, once a great centre of Islamic learning and trade, now a UNESCO World Heritage city facing desertification and conflict.