Niger River Guide: Overview, Hotels & Travel Writing

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Our Niger River travel guide brings together a collection of featured boutique and luxury hotels in Niger River along with a selection of the best travel writing, to help you decide where to go, what to do and how to get there.

Articles About Niger River

Timbuktu: A Living Legend | Greg Cook | Mali | Niger River | Timbuktou

A visit to the semi-mythical African town of Timbuktu proves that real travel is all about the journey and the destination.

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A Brief History of Timbuktu | Barnaby Rogerson | Mali | Niger River | Timbuktou

Timbuktu first sprung into the consciousness of the world in the fourteenth century, when the ruler of the Muslim Mandigo Empire, Mansa Musa, went on pilgrimage to Mecca and proved himself to be so prodigiously generous and well-supplied with West...

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Mali's Festival in the Desert | Amar Grover | Mali | Niger River | Timbuktou

As the sun fades behind a pale gauze of haze and wind-blown dust, campfires flare and little teapots bubble. Veiled men lounge beside workaday hide tents as women chatter and scold restless children

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Mali Passing Through | Jasper Winn | Mali | Niger River | Timbuktou

Our aim was to reach Timbuktu and 'the world's remotest music festival,' a traditional swords 'n' camels Tuareg celebration, with an eclectic range of Malian and western bands booked in to add more noise

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To Timbuktou | Barnaby Rogerson | Mali | Niger River | Timbuktou

I was slumped on a reed mat that overlooked lush marsh pasture surrounded by dozens of herdsmen

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