| | The entrance gate to Timbuktu was built a few years to welcome Jacques Chirac |
| | | Street bread ovens are found everywhere in Timbuktu - hot fresh sandy bread! |
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| | Slabs of salt at the port of Korioumé, 19km from Timbuktu on the River Niger |
| | | Typical sandy street (and bread oven) near the Djingareiber Mosque |
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| | School sports ground, Timbuktu |
| | | Herders have brought their animals to the outskirts of Timbuktu to graze |
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| | Typical street in Timbuktu, with a nomadic squatter house in the foreground |
| | | The Djingareiber Mosque was built in 1325. |
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| | These nomads from the Sahara Desert have built a camp on vacant land in Timbuktu |
| | | On the roof of the Djingareiber Mosque |
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| | The beautifully decorated door of the Sidi Yéhia Mosque |
| | | Typical street scene in Timbuktu. The town is remarkable for its lack of colour |
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| | At a madressa, young boys recite the koran in unison at the top of their lungs |
| | | Drainage runs down the street and soaks into the sands |
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| | A small plot of irrigated vegetables near an almost empty well |
| | | Boulevarde Askia Mohammed - Timbuktu's main street |
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| | A typical Timbuktu street scene |
| | | Street markets outside the Grand Marché (covered markets that are largely empty) |
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| | Selling meat in the open air markets |
| | | Sankoré Mosque, which has been an Islamic University since the 15th Century |
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| | Women on their way to the markets, Timbuktu |
| | | A street scene near the Petit Marché, Timbuktu |
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| | In the Petit Marché, Timbuktu |
| | | Selling grain in the Petit Marché, Timbuktu |
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| | Selling grain in the Petit Marché, Timbuktu |
| | | Meat vendors in the open market. Look closely to see thousands of flies |
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| | The sealed road ends at the Place de l'Independence. (French Consulate behind) |
| | | Timbuktu is slowly being buried by the sands of the Sahara Desert |
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| | Camels rest in the shade towards the edge of the Sahara Desert near Timbuktu |
| | | A camp of the nomadic Tuareg people in the Sahara Desert near Timbuktu |
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| | One of the Sahara's famous sand dunes |
| | | Tuareg women never go into towns, but they are seen at their desert encampments |
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| | A Tuareg group enjoys the late afternoon light at their encampment |
| | | An encampment of nomadic Tuareg people in the Sahara Desert, near Timbuktu |
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| | Tuareg men dance while the women clap and chant, and look after babies |
| | | In the Sahara Desert, mobile phones are bringing modern communication to nomads |
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