Cruising to Timbuktu on the Niger River in Mali. Have an intimate look at life along a great African river!
The Niger, whose route was for many centuries a mystery to European minds, is Africa's third longest river, after the Nile and the Congo. From its source in the Fouta Djalon Highlands of Guinea, close to the Atlantic Ocean, its course ascribes a huge arc through north-eastern Mali into Niger to debouch finally some 4184 km away in the multi-stream delta of Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea.