All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘sahara’
Timbuktu – Mali
Once a fabled city of great gold wealth and Islamic scholarship, today Timbuktu is …
Read More →Niger River – Mopti to Timbuktu – Mali
3 days down the Niger River, thru the Sahara, from Mopti to Timbuktu, by pirogue. Camping on the desert shores, passing mud-sculptured villages and their elaborate mosques
Read More →Chinguetti – Mauritania
Chinguetti – seemingly lost, amid the Sahara Desert on the high Adrar Plateau of Mauritania, is known best known as Islam’s 7th holiest city …
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