If you've always want to go to Timbuktu, but thought that it was too remote, travel with Sandy and Gail Cohen to Burkina Faso and Mali in West Africa. Stay on a rooftop in a colorful Gourounsi village and encounter the nomadic Fulani with their colorful jewelry and tattooed faces. Mingle with the Dogon, who live on the sides of an escarpment in Mali, and watch them perform a ritual funeral dance with ornate carved and painted masks.