Timbuktu dune fringe

Timbuktu Region · Mali

Timbuktu dune fringe, Mali
Photo: Senani P, CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

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November to February
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The fabled trading city sits where the Sahara meets the Niger's inland delta, its edges lapped by advancing dunes. For centuries it was a hub of gold, salt and manuscript scholarship at the desert's southern rim.

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