Streets squares and districts to visit Mali

The port is the busiest place in the city. The isolation of the northern regions makes the inland waterway very popular from Mopti, where water levels permit navigation throughout the year. The harbour is always crowded with canoes and pinasses. One of its parts is occupied by a repair and repair site for canoes. Around it is daily a market for dried or smoked fish. You can also observe the unloading of pinasses from Taoudéni mines, loaded with salt bars.

Former Place Joffre under the French occupation, she became a place of independence on 22 September 1960. Its central monument is a rider wearing the litham (piece of cloth covering the lower part of the Tuareg face). This legendary face bears the name of El Farouk. According to the local legend, this white man, white dressed, haunting the streets and squares of the city. This protective genius is one of the symbols of the mystery of Timbuktu.

Located 6 km from Gao, it contains numerous funeral stelas of the th century. One of them, in marble, was reportedly burned in Almira, Spain.