Black Country news and blogs Wednesday 12 March 2014
Blog feature
Timbuktu: As far away as the Moon!
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The Great Mosque of Djenné, in Timbuktu.
(Courtesy of Wikitravel) When I was a child Timbuktu was one of those mysterious places that seemed to exist only in the imagination, like El Dorado, or Shangri La, impossibly far away, a city lost in time, hidden in the heart of the African desert, and it’s an image which has always fascinated me. When Nina Sovich was young her father told her Timbuktu was ‘like the moon… a nowhere place, at the end of the…
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