| Page Views: 798 Last Visit to Lac Faguibine: January, 2003 | Festival au Désert, january 2003 by F_Meignant - last update: Oct 22, 2003 |
Essakane | Tuaregs watching a camel race |
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. |
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| Pros: | "Atmosphere, Tuaregs..." | | Cons: | "?" | | In A Nutshell: | "I'm singing in the sand..." |
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ludogatto Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:29 UTC
good to read something on tuareg lifstile, the waman and man relationship do to the hard desert life! nice pics | craic Tue Feb 24, 2004 18:02 UTC
Amazing! Wonderful! Essuf! | Ivan_Jimenez Mon Feb 23, 2004 07:28 UTC
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 Tue Oct 21, 2003 12:53 UTC
What a superb, amazing, interesting page! The photos, the stories: thank you, Francois! |
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