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Do you recommend traveling to Timbuktu and why?

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The situation in Timbuktu has gotten much better since the peace agreement signed in Algiers in February of 2015, but there are still sporadic terrorist attacks in ... read more

Today, Timbuktu is an impoverished town, although its reputation makes it a tourist attraction, and it has an airport. It is one of the eight regions of Mali, home to the local governor. It is the sister city to Djenne (also in Mali). Timbuktu is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988. read more

LAST FALL, I WAS traveling in Mali, a land-locked nation in West Africa. A few weeks into my time there, I took a 20-hour ferry from Mopti, a busy port on the Inner Niger Delta, in the middle of the country, to Niafunke in the northern region of Timbuktu. read more

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