Salt Slabs from the Salt Mines

The boats go towards Timbuktu with cement, food and other consumables, but goes back to Mopti loaded with salt from the salt mines north of Timbuktu. The camel caravans still bring them down. It takes them ~40 days.

Reason #2 to go to Mali

November 18th 2010
The other main reason why a lot of people go to Mali is Timbuktu. Everybody has heard about Timbuktu, but not really knowing where it actually was. The only thing you knew was that it was somewhere there in the middle of nowhere. For me personally, why did I really want to go to Timbuktu? The two basic reasons. The name in itself has a funny ring to it. It's a fabled city tugged away in the sa ... read more

Africa » Mali » North-West » Timbuktu

The Sudanese Republic and Senegal became independent of France in 1960 as the Mali Federation. When Senegal withdrew after only a few months, what formerly made up the Sudanese Republic was renamed Mali. Rule by dictatorship was brought to a close in... ... read more

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