TOMBOUCTOU / TIMBUKTU

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TOMBOUCTOU / TIMBUKTU

Tombouctou / Timbuktu is one of the legendry cities that stands on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, a city of great importance in the country of Mali in Africa. the Trans-Siberian trade routes and the Tropic of cancer go across it. The very name of this city conjures up flights of fancy fabulous imagery and dreams, it is a cornucopia for all who love history, architectural wonders. It has everything an explorer would ever want, it is steeped in religion, tradition, and Tombouctou has been landlocked between the great oceans of the tribal rules. world Atlantic Ocean the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. The great explorer and scholar Ibn Battuta wrote much about the city in his travel diaries. It was a regional trading center where journeys started and ended for the traders of its time.

The Trans-Siberian trade route brought traders to this city where they conducted buying and selling of Gold, Salt, Slaves, Ivory, and goods of all importance they managed to navigate the desert without maps with help of oral history going from small oasis to oasis and meeting with other traders on this trade route. Sandstorms are ever so prevalent they swirl like the Dervish who leaps into an ecstasy of his beliefs. Dervishes are a great people of the Muslim faith who have taken a vow of austerity of all things worldly and focus entirely on love, they have ecstatic rituals and follow the doctrine of simplification of life on the amphitheater of the world with dance, love, and devotion.

The city of Tombouctou itself is surrounded by very sensual landscapes, the location is very exotic, to say the least, it is a time capsule in the desert it is also a UNESCOs heritage site, the temperatures are unbearable, daily life can be very challenging, to say the least. But wherever you are, it is hard to get here and the journey itself can be very arduous and torturous.

Tombouctou/Timbuktu is located in Mali north of the Niger River, in West Africa. Walk with wisdom and knowledge and every step you take is fraught with danger and every misstep and in the wrong direction will surely cost you dearly.  

God Bless You 

May all be well with you

DMD.



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