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-From the sizzling desert sand and burning sun, one enters walled enclosures with a central courtyard and archways leading to the welcome cool of shadowy rooms where men chat over copious cups of strong, mint-flavoured tea brewed thrice in a time-honoured tradition. Women bake bread in the sand and cook spice-perfumed dishes of goat, cow and camel meat flavoured with dried wild hibiscus flowers or the powdered leaves of the okra plant fried in shea butter.
-"According to the inhabitants of Timbuktu, gold came from the south, the salt from the north and divine knowledge from Timbuktu,"
-Timbuktu is home to a library of ancient, camel-skin bound manuscripts covering science, astrology, medicine, history, theology, grammar and geography.
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Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
reply to post by Taupin Desciple