Hello from Timbuktu, Mali!

Bonjour everyone from Timbuktu, Mali! We came to Mali this year on a family vacation (with Emily and Rachel), spent several days exploring the country of Dogon and then made a long, but not too difficult journey to Timbuktu. This is an amazing place with lots of fascinating history. Look it up on your map, it really exists! Now we can say that we’ve been to Timbuktu (and back hopefully ).

Tonight we are going to ride camels 5 kilometers into the desert, have dinner, watch traditional Tuareg dancing and then spend the night on a sand dune. Tomorrow morning (Wednesday) we will return to Timbuktu by camel and then begin our journey back to Dogon land, Mali, then to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, then to Kara, Togo and finally back to Tabligbo by Sunday evening.

We are having a wonderful adventure full of lots of stories and pictures which we’ll share when we are safely home.

But, I just had to post this while we were in Timbuktu. Oh, did I mention the heat? It was 124.5 degrees and climbing when we looked at 2pm this afternoon:) The nights are cool though (80s).

Blessings to all!