Djenné

With its awesome mosque, beautiful mud built houses and a big and colourful market, the city of Djenné is one of Mali's main tourist attractions.

However, this year has been a very bad year for the country's tourism sector due to travel warnings given out by the governments of several countries. In spite of the fact that most of these travel warnings concern the north of Mali, the whole country receives a lot less tourism than in previous years. During some days of my week in Djenné I had the impression that I was the only tourist in town.