Timbuktu Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Just enough time to scrub off my desert sun tan and we were rushed off to the offices of the Mayor of Timbuktu for an official welcome. Everyone had been waiting for us as we were late, so we quickly sat down and the formal greetings began. There were four other Hay on Wye people in the room in addition to Steve, Sue, Chris, myself and young Fre...

Happy Holidays to lov**s and friends. I missed all you cats this Christmas and New Year so in ord** to keep homesickness from consuming me I went backpacking through the north of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Mali for three weeks!! SO much happened in the course of our adventures so I'll just write some of the highlights of our trip......... GHANA Rac...

Having arrived in the mythical city of Timbuktu by boat, we were v excited to eat a proper 3 course meal which contained neither rice or fish heads. Timbuktu, we had been warned, would be a disappointment so our expectations werent high. And its not a particularly pretty town, though it has the required mud mosques, but there are lots of these i...

Multicultural, atmospheric town at the border of the Sahara desert.

So, time came to leave the desert and I had woken up slightly earlier than my alarm as I wasn't feeling very well. Mohamed came bursting into Ana's house saying "Hurry Hurry, the flight time has changed we have to go...." I didn't recognise him as he had his turban off so it took me a few minutes to register what was happening. We raced to the a...

The Touareg are among the most nomadic of mod**n day peoples in their extensive cross-bord** wand**ing in Mali, *****, Alg**ia, and Libya and are responsible for one of my favorite sayings - "Houses are the coffins of the living." This has become one of my own mottos in the years since I have come to consid** myself a mod**n nomad always moving ...

Just completed the "Ride from H***"in an old rattling Toyota Land Cruiser , packed with people. The ride was completed the following day at 10 am--a 10 hour drive that took 24 hours. The top of the vehicle was loaded with luggage, bags of millet, other goods, 2 fully rimmed tires,and 2 helpers etc.. The last 150 kilometers was a bone rattling dr...

Reggel terv szerint jott a srac segiteni beszerezni a szukseges dolgokat: bank, hogy vegre Peter es Marly tudjon penzt valtani, az ut tovabbi reszere; mobil sim kartya, ugyanis Marly holland kartyaja nem mukodott Maliban, ugyhogy kitalaltuk, hogy miert ne vegyunk egy sim kartyat, ugyis olyan ket hetet Maliban toltunk, aztan majd eladjuk az orsza...