mali 7: timbuktwo
alex examines his mount
easy there, boy!
we set off as the sun was setting, after a lengthy dispute about our return time the next day; in order to get a taxi out of timbuktu to get to douentza - a 7 hour 4x4 trek through the desert (well, the plains, anyway, but on a dirt road) - we would have to leave early in the morning - or so we were told; this meant, we would have to return earlier than we anticipated, something our "guide" didn't think was in our contract, not that it existed. not that he was really even our guide, because he didn't even come with us. but the rest of that story waits for tomorrow. the interesting thing about the camel trek was that while we rode the camels, the tuaregs walked, which meant that we could only go as fast and as far as the tuaregs wanted, which was, albeit, a fairly good clip. but the time constraint that we imposed meant that instead of going way out into the desert, we would only be going out a short distance - this is also because we were late to depart and the sun was falling.
and it was very beautiful;
next time: at the tuareg encampment
posted by Jon @ 16:12
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