Mali

Regions in travel priority order:

1. Mopti

• • • Great Mosque of Djenné
    • Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)

2. Tombouctou

• • • Timbuktu (centre of Tuareg culture) – Sankoré Mosque at Sankoré Madrasah (University of Sankoré)
    • Festival of the Desert in Essakane

3. Kayes

• • • Kayes (historic capital of French Sudan)
    • Bafing National Park
    • Kouroufing National Park
    • Wongo National Park

4. Bamako

• • • Bamako (national capital)

5. Koulikoro

• • • Boucle du Baoulé National Park
    • Kongassambougou Reserve

6. Ségou

• • • Ségou (third largest city – historic capital of the Bamana Empire

7. Sikasso

• • • Sikasso (national second city – historic capital of the Kénédougou Empire)

8. Gao

• • • Gao (historic capital of the Songhai Empire)

9. Kidal

• • • Saharan Nights festival in Essouk

10. Taoudénit

• • • Taoudenni (salt excavating center from ancient salt lake bed)

11. Ménaka

• • • Ansongo Ménaka Partial Wildlife Reserve

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Senegal

Regions:

1. Cap Vert-Thies

• • • Dakar (national capital)

2. Central Senegal

• • • Saloum Delta National Park

3. Northern Senegal

• • • Saint-Louis (historic capital of French West Africa)
    • Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary

4. Casamance

• • • Ziguinchor

5. Tambacounda Region

• • • Niokolo-Koba National Park

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Gambia

• • • Baunjul (national capital)

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Cape Verde

• • • Praia (national capital)

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Niger

• • • Niamey (national capital)
    • Grande Mosquée d’Agadez

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Burkina Faso

• • • Ouagadougou (national capital)
    • Grand Mosque of Bobo-Dioulasso
    • Cour Royale de Tiébélé traditional painted houses