Watch Timbuktu

Visit Timbuktu, a historic city in Mali known for its ancient Islamic scholarship and desert trade. Explore the Djinguereber Mosque (a UNESCO World Heritage site built in 1327), see the Sankore Madrasah (once a leading center of learning in Africa), and wander through the old town with its mud-brick architecture and manuscripts.

Learn Modern Standard Arabic and its unique script

A young man with magic flees his sorcerer father across 13th-century Mali; the Bambara epic.

Traverse Saharan caravans, coastal birds, and Moorish medinas of Mauritania

Ancient Saharan town of desert libraries.

Ride one of the world's longest trains.

Coastal park of millions of migrating birds.

The "Eye of the Sahara" from the ground.