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Relaxing green setting.
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Reopened in mid-2013 after complete renovation. Fewer than 200 animals from more than 100 species. Nice lion exhibit.
Houses caves with rock paintings, and offers good views across the city.
Dates to 1907 (although current cathedral built in 1925) after a Catholic mission nearby was relocated here.
Friendship Casino of Bamako
In case you want to see what a Malian casino is like (apparently this is acceptable in Malian culture?) Gambling machines, roulette, even a restaurant with fine dining.
This is a rather remarkable looking monument to the independence of Mali, complete with a minaret on top. But watch out for heavy traffic in the area.