Timbuktu, those mainly graceful names ever in African continent, has for many years been one and the same with the mystifying detachment of Africa with the rest of the world, with an end of the world attraction that huge numbers of tourists just need to arrive at. It is as well the name we have known from the time when we were kids but didn’t really know nor didn’t care where it was located.
Too much than being merely a name, the reputation derived by the place owing to its tactical position, at on one occasion on the perimeter of the Sahara and later at the crest of the ‘Niger bend’, since its position as the resplendently rich terminus well known for the routes of the camel caravans which has always played a vital role in connecting the regions of West Africa with that of the [...]
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Monday, January 25, 2010
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