1.0 link 30238 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-patricof/dateline-timbuktu-giving-_b_30238.html I just returned from Ouagadougou, Mopti and Timbuktu, the latter a place you've probably heard of all your life but couldn't find on the map. Yes, Timbuktu - or Tombouctou as it is called by its inhabitants - really does exist and it is not in Nepal or the Himalayas as many people respond on first reaction, but in the northern desert of Mali in south western Africa - on the edge of the Niger River. It is a city...

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