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 ...

... to the nomads, not to mention the 1000 camels, 100 of them are named Achmed. There are very little tourist facilities in Timbuktu, no souvenir shops, not much in the way of Restaurants, little choice of hotels. Guess its not a tourist town. The hotel ...

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 much here to do. The ...