"Festival au Désert, january 2003" Lac Faguibine by F_Meignant

Lac Faguibine Travel Guide: 13 reviews and 170 photos

Tuaregs watching a camel race - Lac Faguibine

Essakane

Essakane (previously called Farach) is a small Tuareg village in the desert, some 70km West of Timbuktu, close to the dried-up Faguibine Lake. Beautiful dunes of white sand. It's usually where is the "Festival au Désert", a festival of Tuareg and West-African music.

Pros and Cons

Pros:Atmosphere, Tuaregs...
Cons:?
In a nutshell:I'm singing in the sand...

Last visit to Lac Faguibine: Jan 2003
Intro Updated Oct 22, 2003
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CatherinefromOttawa Jul 4, 2011 at 11:40 AM Report Abuse

Your description of women's drumming and its symbolism made me cry. I have been away from Africa many years. I worked with the Basubiya, river people of Chobe District, Botswana. They are matrilineal. Safaris tell you nothing about their culture.
ludogatto Jan 13, 2006 at 2:29 AM Report Abuse

good to read something on tuareg lifstile, the waman and man relationship do to the hard desert life! nice pics
craic Feb 24, 2004 at 10:02 AM Report Abuse

Amazing! Wonderful! Essuf!
Ivan_Jimenez Feb 22, 2004 at 11:28 PM Report Abuse

Pages like this are what made me come to VT in the first places. Dommage there are very few in here... I could picture in my head all those blue men screaming and yelling when the heard the Navajos!
dutch_anna Oct 21, 2003 at 4:53 AM Report Abuse

What a superb, amazing, interesting page! The photos, the stories: thank you, Francois!
titti Oct 21, 2003 at 12:10 AM Report Abuse

... great, astonishing, magical, amazing, wonderful ... event, pics, stories....