Timbuktu Mali

You can start from the Capital of Mali, Bamako and then go to Bougoni on the Bani River. Djenna has the finest mud buildings in Mali. The markets are popular and crowded. Mali women look beautiful with their plaited hair and hennaed feet and hands. At a Tabaski festival a sheep is killed. The holy man will kill the sheep and everyone prays. Everyone goes home and then celebrations will begin. The head of the family will sacrifice a sheep, the blood will flow out into the gutter and everything is put into the pot to be eaten. The boys receive the testicles to make them clever.

From Mokti , you can catch the ferry to Timbuktu. That is if the river has enough water. The pinas or the wood hulled cargo boats can be found if you want to go to Timbuktu. You will have to share with goats, hay, people, and cargo. The Niger river is the Mali super highway to Timbuktu. From time to time you may run aground as the niger river is very shallow.

Timbuktu is the home of the Tuareg and was started as a trading post for salt. Still today the salt are brought here from the deserts. The crumbling ramparts lie around the town. The mud brick buildings have been constructed hundreds of years ago. Friday is the holiest day in Timbuktu. The scholars in Timbuktu were in advance of the European scholars hundreds of years ago and ascertained that the planets went around the sun, a herecy at the time in Europe.

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