Hotel Camping TOUAREG

<div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_20'>Hotel Camping<br /> Touareg</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_21'>Two nights in the desert on camel back are a unique experience. Pick-up right at the hotel's door step.</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_3'>Three more rooms were added on<br /> the roof with an open terrace for an<br />unobstructed view at the stars that<br />guide the Touareg through the Sahara.<br />Nowhere else have I seen them closer <br />and bigger than in Timbuktu!<br /><br />Bathrooms were installed in the <br />ground-floor-rooms, upstairs by<br />end of 2008 - inshallah!</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_1'>The original "Hotel Camping Touareg", a<br />traditional family house made of mud (2004).</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_2'>A "modern" kitchen was added (front, left) <br />and the wall fortified with limestone (2006).</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_5'> The canopy in the corner was<br /> replaced by the kitchen (below)<br /><br />and the staircase<br />is hidden behind <br />the bar..</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_4'>A "hangar" stretches across the court covering the<br />restaurant/ bar where locals and tourists alike enjoy<br />a cool beer or soda as well as videos and satellite TV</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_16'>Bar (top)</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_6'> Chamelier Mamayti <br /><br /> Patrons of the<br /> bar/restaurant at the "Hotel Camping Touareg"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Little guest watching<br />"Tom and Jerry"</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_17'>Esau with his lovely wife ..now they are three.</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_7'>Math- student Ousmane (left) and friend</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_9'>Owner with a German couple who were camping at the<br />roof of the Hotel Camping Touareg at Christmas 2005.</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_10'>Group of five Italians enjoying breakfast.</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_11'>Owner with Touareg <br />friend Almouzer.</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_18'>Baba from restaurant<br /> "Poulet d'Or"</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_12'> Let'sGo and the little rascals of Abaradjou.</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_13'>Younis is a daily guest.</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_14'>The annual music festival of Essakane has all rooms in<br />Timbuktu filled. European couple leaving the Hotel Camping Touareg after the festival in January 2007.</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_19'>Swedish/French couple with adopted Ethiopian kids<br />enjoying breakfast at the Hotel Camping Touareg.</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_8'>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.</div> <div class='textboxV3' id='pgTextboxV3_15'>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..</div>