Mali & Niger 2006 > Mali / Burkina Faso / Niger > Dogon Country

We arrived in Bandiagara, the largest Dogon town about 45 km away from the cliff, at the end of the drive back from Timbuktu. We'd seen plenty of goats on the trip, but we'd seen mostly sheep on the menu. We asked Kone about this, who pointed out that about half the "goats" we'd seen were actually sheep, like the ones pictured here. Since it's so hot, they don't grow much of a coat. The flavor of sheep is much preferred by the locals to that of goat. So, all you Biblical exegetes, it turns out not to be so easy to tell the sheep from the goats.
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