Timbuktu! No city in the world conjures such images of romance and adventure. ... - PHOTO TAKEN 10AUG03 - A Malian walks out of the Great Mosque in Djenne, Mali August 10, 2003.

The last time I'd visited Timbuktu, in 1995, there were only three ways to get there: a three-day journey upriver by a motorized pirogue, or canoe, from the trading town of Mopti; a chartered ...

NEW YORK -- Arranging a journey on the road to Timbuktu has become easier with the opening of a U.S. booking office for Mali-based Bambara African Tours.

The city traded fish, grains, copper and metals with the nearby cities of Timbuktu and Gao. Centuries later, Djenne would become a major tradepost in the trans-Saharan gold trade.

DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Thousands of Malians carrying buckets and jugs of mud joined the annual replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains th… ...

DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Kola Bah used to earn a living as a tour guide in Mali’s historic city of Djenné, once a center of Islamic learning known for the sprawling mud-brick mosque that has been ...

The world’s largest mud-brick building, the Great Mosque of Djenne, Mali, awaits its annual replastering, Friday, May 10, 2024. The building has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage in Danger list ...

Djenne’s mosque requires a new layer of mud each year before the start of the rainy season in June, or the building will fall into disrepair. The replastering event once drew tens of thousands of ...