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Rendezvous In Mali

James Fox, House & Garden, September 1987

YOU WILL rarely hear of anyone traveling for pleasure in Mali, except to visit the great handmade mud mosques at Mopti or Djenne on the road eastward toward Timbuktu, but there is a way to negotiate these parts that can put you quickly in touch with the rich old culture of Senegal and Mali and, if you want, with much of West Africa and with some spectacularly dramatic landscapes.

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