Agadez
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Agadez, formerly spelled Agadès, is the fifth largest city in Niger, with a population of 110,497 based on the 2012 census. The capital of the eponymous Agadez Region, the city lies in the Sahara dese
View of Agadez, from a minaret (1997)
The Grand Mosque
Mano Dayak International Airport
Azalai
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The Azalai is a semi-annual salt caravan route practiced by Tuareg traders in the Sahara desert between Timbuktu and the Taoudenni salt mine in Mali, or the act of traveling with a caravan along that
A camel train traveling from Agadez to Bilma (Niger), 1985.
Slabs of salt from the mines of Taoudenni stacked on the quayside at the port of Mopti (Mali)
Rock salt at the market in Mopti. It is sold here in slabs, broken and weighed, and packaged into smaller amounts.
beza (front) and kantu salt in Fachi