The village at the foot of the Bandiagara escarpment is approximately one kilometer long and is divided by a steep-walled gorge accessible only by foot. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon ...

They have lived on the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali for at least six centuries, mostly isolated from outside influences. Their villages follow the line of the escarpment, an 80-mile-long, roughly ...

Tellem burial caves in the Bandiagara cliffs in central Mali. The Tellems were driven out by the Dogons, who took over the caves 700 years ago. Aaron Huey ...

The Bandiagara Escarpment is as spectacular as I remembered it. The home of the Dogon people, with many villages clinging to cliffs, is one of the most magnificent landscapes in West Africa.

Outstanding Universal Value Brief synthesis The Cliff of Bandiagara, Land of the Dogons, is a vast cultural landscape covering 400,000 ha and includes 289 villages scattered between the three natural ...

The destination was a hard sell. It is fast becoming an impossible one. The Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali. Insights—Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

Its architecture, too, has an otherworldly quality, clinging to the Bandiagara Escarpment as if an extension of the rock itself. At the same time, the Dogon Country is no idyll of blissful isolation.

The Bandiagara Escarpment offers spectacular landscapes and the opportunity to learn about the culture of the Dogon, one of Africa's most fascinating ethnic groups.