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Djenné

once a religious and commercial centre to rival Timbuktu, this small town of multi-storey mud buildings is quite a sight. It has declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO. Seeing Djenné from a rooftop offers an intriguing and unusual landscape, with its soft texture, rounded lines and melancholic colouring. It also features the largest mosque in the world made completely out of mud, which is restored every year by the community after the rainy season.

74km

13.905556-4.555

Timbuktu

city in Mali

277km

16.7759-3.0094
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Grand Mosque of Mopti

mosque in Mali

300m

14.49388889-4.19666667

Great Mosque of Djenné

This is the main tourist attraction in the city. It is what made the city a UNESCO heritage site.

75km

13.90527778-4.55555556
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Someday we will visit Mopti or begin to dream about going there! However, for now its not on our radar. Let us know in the comments if you think that should change!

Mopti

Mopti is one of the main ports in Mali, and a good gateway for many of the country's most impressive attractions such as Djenné, Timbuktu, and Dogon Country.

The city is the subject of a 1999 documentary film, L'Esprit de Mopti. It is also the birthplace of Slovak celebrity Ibrahim Maiga.

Mopti lies on the right bank of the Bani River, a few hundred meters upstream of the confluence of the Bani with the Niger River. Between August and December when the rivers flood the Inner Niger Delta, the town becomes a series of islands connected by raised causeways. During this period the only road access to the town is along a 12 km causeway that links Mopti to Sévaré. Mopti lies to the west of the Dogon Plateau and is 66 km northwest of Bandiagara and 76 km north-northeast of Djenné. The town is the capital of the Mopti Region and the administrative center of the Mopti Cercle.

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

31.7°C15.1
Precipitation: 0.8 mm

Feb

34.9°C17.6
Precipitation: 0 mm

Mar

37.7°C21.2
Precipitation: 0.8 mm

Apr

40.2°C24.7
Precipitation: 4 mm

May

40.5°C26.5
Precipitation: 23.4 mm

Jun

38.3°C25.7
Precipitation: 55.8 mm

Jul

34.6°C23.9
Precipitation: 140.5 mm

Aug

32.6°C23.3
Precipitation: 165.6 mm

Sep

33.3°C23.7
Precipitation: 88.7 mm

Oct

35.5°C23.4
Precipitation: 19.8 mm

Nov

35°C19.5
Precipitation: 0.3 mm

Dec

31.6°C16
Precipitation: 0.4 mm
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