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| Salt caravan to Timbuktu – the trip that changed my life Posted 26 Nov 2008 by Kate Humble  I had wanted to travel with the camel salt caravans to Timbuktu for ten years. In January 1999 my husband Ludo and I arrived in Timbuktu and met a woman who introduced us to a Berabish guide called Shindouk. He helped arrange for us to travel with the camel salt caravans who carry salt from mines in the Sahara to Timbuktu to sell in the market.We loaded up a vehicle with petrol, rice, dates an...more... |
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