Timbuktu, Mali

... off for Timbuktu. Sophie and Tijn have taken a short break from the truck and have travelled on to Burkina Faso and we travelled to Timbuktu with Tim and Pascal alongside in their landrover, 2 guys we first met at the Zebra Bar in St Louis. We bushcamped ...

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... killed. Things calmed down when a lasting peace agreement was made and it culminated in the ceremonial burning of 3000 weapons in Timbuktu, and the monument, apparently funded by the Chinese government , was built on the spot, and some of the weapons are ...

Timbuktu!    I never thought I would actually walk the streets of Timbuktu.  The three day boat trip here was ....interesting.  The city itself is not very interesting. Outside of the Mosque and some other local sites, there is not ...

... too with the four Hay students who had had a fabulous week, and when we left they were dancing to the Mali band with their Timbuktu penfriends. The next morning we got up early to catch the ferry, but a truck had broken down at the ferry landing - ...