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18 Dec 2006
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Mali: Timboctou - Taudeni
Anybody ever been from Timboctou to Taudeni (or vice versa)?
What about Taudeni - Tessalit or Kidal?
Any info greatly appreciated.
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18 Dec 2006
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hi moro
"Timboctou to Taudeni"
very interesting because there are salt caravans
landscape: sahel, flat and then small dunes
"Taudeni - Tessalit"
very nice landscape BUT also a hotspot...
we did it the other way round, from Tessalit to Taoudenni to Timbouctou before the 2003 kidnapping
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I think post 2003 is no longer the time to explore northern Mali without risks. We crossed the Tim-Taou piste last month, coming from Atar to Bordj and a truck which came to help us was robbed twice. I understand this is normal for the area, a 'tax', and they were smugglers anyway - but with toubabs the tax would be a lot higher then a drum ot two of fuel.
I also understand that MBM (GSPC guy) has been chased out of the Tuareg area around Kidal into a hole north of Taoudenni, a Berabish controlled area where he has been told to not make waves. But he and his people are up there nevertheless, waiting.
We wanted to visit the area of Tagnout Chag' well crossing the little known Tess-Taou piste but - as I suspected beforehand from the 'lie of the land' - were told it was not safe.
Of course this assumes you are travelling in a nicely-equipped car. On a camel or a clapped out Series III you would not have much to lose.
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Hey!
"We wanted to visit the area of Tagnout Chag' well crossing the little known Tess-Taou piste but"
Is that the route going north east out of Ouadane, Mauritania?
How do you consider the South of Chinguetti, crossing the Tagant plateau to Tidjikja? I go by bike.
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Is that the route going north east out of Ouadane, Mauritania?
No, it's SE to Tessalit from Taoudenni in Mali
Ching to Tidjikja (R10) is no problem, everyone does it and it's a great route.
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hi Chris
you wrote
"coming from Atar to Bordj" Mokhtar
thats why poeple are troubled...
probably you meant Adrar in Algeria and not Atar in Mauritania
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