In the afternoon we traveled 3km to Téli. It was here that we would spend our first night (and the last day of the year) under the brilliant assortment of stars. We were treated with a smaller mask ceremony as well. Before we settled in for the day, we went to nearby Endé, where we visited the market – a bustling crowed profusion of selling and goods under a canopy of trees. Tired, we went to bed long before the NewYear celebration. Roosters and donkeys ushered in the dawn of the first day of the year.

Pictured: mosque in Telí silhouetted against the New Year's sunrise