Hotel Camping
Touareg
Two nights in the desert on camel back are a unique experience. Pick-up right at the hotel's door step.
Three more rooms were added on
the roof with an open terrace for an
unobstructed view at the stars that
guide the Touareg through the Sahara.
Nowhere else have I seen them closer
and bigger than in Timbuktu!
Bathrooms were installed in the
ground-floor-rooms, upstairs by
end of 2008 - inshallah!
The original "Hotel Camping Touareg", a
traditional family house made of mud (2004).
A "modern" kitchen was added (front, left)
and the wall fortified with limestone (2006).
The canopy in the corner was
replaced by the kitchen (below)
and the staircase
is hidden behind
the bar..
A "hangar" stretches across the court covering the
restaurant/ bar where locals and tourists alike enjoy
a cool beer or soda as well as videos and satellite TV
Bar (top)
Chamelier Mamayti
Patrons of the
bar/restaurant at the "Hotel Camping Touareg"
Little guest watching
"Tom and Jerry"
Esau with his lovely wife ..now they are three.
Math- student Ousmane (left) and friend
Owner with a German couple who were camping at the
roof of the Hotel Camping Touareg at Christmas 2005.
Group of five Italians enjoying breakfast.
Owner with Touareg
friend Almouzer.
Baba from restaurant
"Poulet d'Or"
Let'sGo and the little rascals of Abaradjou.
Younis is a daily guest.
The annual music festival of Essakane has all rooms in
Timbuktu filled. European couple leaving the Hotel Camping Touareg after the festival in January 2007.
Swedish/French couple with adopted Ethiopian kids
enjoying breakfast at the Hotel Camping Touareg.
The corner lot across the street from the "Hotel Camping Touareg" has been adapted for modern living. There is still a lot of space left for camping or construction.
Mahi Toure', beloved radio celebrity of "Radio Bouctou" made the "hangar" in the hotel as well as the fence of the new lot (2/2007, above). When the owner returned, the fence was gone. "A donkey did it", the kids said but the owner has her own theory..