Some of the images from my trip to Timbuktu during the autumn of 2001.
Mauritania, Senegal and Mali.
- Roads Mauitanian style
- The land that tarmac forgot
- Nouâdhibou harbour
- Nouâdhibou rail station
- Mauritainian children
- Riding the empty ore train
- Economy class travel
- Choûm
- Iron ore dust everywhere
- Crossing the Sahara on bike
- Some of the better parts
- Two fellow French travellers
- Goats in the distance
- Nomads in the desert
- Soft sand
- What a contrast!
- On my own now
- Early morning traffic
- Shop in Nouakchott
- Basic accommodation outside Nouakchott
- Typical road vehicle
- Waiting to cross into Senegal
- What! no camels
- Typical village scene on my arrival
- My host for the night
- Senegal village scene
- Happy and colourful villages
- Senegal market day
- Mobile shop!
- River activity
- Boabab tree
- Village chief
- Delvelopment in progress
- Senegal village
- Women at work
- Cattle at water-hole
- Washday queue
- At the head of the queue
- Three young goat-heards
- Wildlife - Baboons
- Young boabab tree in flower
- Crossing the border into Mali
- River scene at Kayes
- Into the unknown
- Getting worse
- Work in progress
- Taking the train
- A bit chaotic
- Big river on route to Bamako
- View from the train
- Train station in Mali
- My fellow travellers
- Bamako train station
- Cotton harvest in progress
- Mali village scene
- Dogon village
- Construction site Mali style
- River traffic at Mopti
- River Niger
- River transport on R. Niger
- Bike lashed to top of pirogue
- Arrival at Timbuktu
- The main entrance to Timbuktu
- This is a road
- Timbuktu
- Looking smart in clean white shirt
- Made it!
- I'm here
- Looking the part
- Main Street Timbuktu
- Busy traders
- Not much to write home about
- View from the hotel
- Posing on hotel roof
- Ferry out of town to cross R. Niger
- Drive into the river.
- Watch out for crocs
- Mopti - bike on top of bus
- Preparing bike for aircraft
- The only wrapping machine in Mali?
- Supportive family
















































































