Bandiagara, Mali — A generational event offers a chance for local unity and self-discovery. I can remember many moments of wonder from my youth. I recall gathering by moonlight in my village to ...

Dogon lands are divided into three distinct regions: a rugged sandstone plateau; the Bandiagara escarpment – a towering cliff where small villages are nestled into the rocky face – and a sandy plain ...

The 90-mile-long sandstone cliffs of the Bandiagara Escarpment rise magnificently from the scrub-littered plains of Mali. Impressive villages of thatched buildings nestle under its outcrops.

Former tour guide Issa Sankare used to take visitors to the spectacular Bandiagara escarpment in nearby Mali with its cave houses. But now he works as a mechanic.

There are troglodytes in Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, Sassi di Matera in southern Italy, and the Bandiagara Escarpment, a sandstone cliff in Mali.

The Nenets reindeer herders of Siberia, the Barasana living in the forests of the Colombian Amazon, and the Dogon dwelling in the cliffs of the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali, have no more in ...

The secluded region along the Bandiagara Escarpment where the Dogon people took refuge from Muslim marauders in the 15th century has preserved a distinctive animist outlook, mostly intact even today.