Favorite thing: In the centre of the festival area was a huge tent, the forum. In this place there were several conferences between 9 am and 1 pm. I suppose on several subjects like cultural, political and social ones. The talks were all in the french language as far as I know.
I visited this place two times. At the first time there was an international press conference (picture 5). I saw reporters and photographers from many western countries. The second time I came the conference was almost finished. The participants just got ready for some questions of the press (picture 4) and some 'official' pictures (picture 1, 2 & 3).
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The reason why I came to Timbuktu was to attend the 9th Festival au Desert in Essakane 70 km north west of Timbuktu. This festival at 8, 9 and 10 january 2009 turned out to be the perfect mix of...
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Festival au Désert, january 2003

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...
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