All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘sahara’

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Timbuktu – Mali

Once a fabled city of great gold wealth and Islamic scholarship, today Timbuktu is …

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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

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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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