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31/03/2022

Join us in February 2023 for a Serengeti à d Rift Valley safari following in the footsteps of mankind.

25/03/2022

The foot print in the rock is 117,000 years old. It is in the Rift Valley, near Lake Natron, Tanzania from where the first nomads emerged.

This nomad was walking away from the volcano behind the Maasai below after it erupted. The rains will have made the mud soft, then the ash from the volcano settled and hardened to preserve the evidence of their flight. These footprints were recently uncovered by the wind.

The Maasai call that mountain Ol Doinyo Lengai - the Mountain of God.

The foot on the right is mine. It's a perfect fit, though only 53 years old!

That foot will be stepping back into that footprint and leading a journey through the Rift Valley into the Serengeti to observe another type of migration, in early 2023.

Look out for more migration details coming soon...
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Guy

22/03/2022

"Traveling to Chinguetti and Ouadane – Mauritania‘s gateway to the Sahara" https://www.thetravelersbuddy.com/2021/10/22/chinguetti-ouadane-in-mauritania/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chinguetti-ouadane-in-mauritania

Located in the outskirts of the Sahara, Chinguetti and Ouadane are two hidden gems Mauritania is hidding from the rest of the world.

17/03/2022

From Here 2 Timbuktu is back on the road this May with a month's overland trip.
Starting in Bamako we are heading to Mauritania for a wee desert safari to Chinguetti, the old caravan town and seat of Islamic learning, the Timbuktu of Mauritania, where we will begin a camel trek across the mysterious geological phenomenon of the Rickat structure - also known as the Sahara Circle - to Ouadane.
We will then be hitching a ride from the desert to the coast on the largest train in the world that takes Iron Ore from deep in the desert to the port of Nouadibou.

From Mauritania we will go south to Senegal, through the Parc de Djoudj, one of the important sites in the world for migrating birds, and onto the island city of Saint Louis, the "Manhattan of West Africa" and the former administrative centre for colonial French West Africa. Then down to Dakar the most happening city of West Africa.

From Dakar we will cross back east and south across Senegal, Gambia, and onto Guinea. Through the Parc nationale of the upper Niger and returning into the west of Mali and back to Bamako.

You can join this trip in Bamako, Noaukchott or Dakar, for two to four weeks.

Please email [email protected] for dates and more details.

05/03/2022

"All the best Guy for your travels.

You are an excellent tour operator as I said in my review of the trip I took with you to Timbuktu: couldn;t have been better"
Grant McCall

Thanks Grant McCall for the support.

From Here 2 Timbuktu is relaunching after an 8 year rest and recuperation from world events!!

Reviews really help to attract new clients. If anyone who has travelled with me would care to write a review under the review tab I'd much appreciate it.

Guy Lankester

22/02/2022

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22/02/2022

Fancy a ride?
Road Trip: Mali to Morocco March/April 2022

I'm venturing back across the Sahara on a road trip from Mali to Morocco. There are two places up for grabs. This trip may include a camel trek in Mauritania and/or a train ride from the desert to the coast.

Then in April I'll be doing a 2 week trip around Morocco, taking in some really cool places in Western Sahara, The Atlas ,mountains and the Rife valley, alongside covering the main citadels. There are a possible 6 places on this journey.

Both trips are flexible at the moment, will be built around the interest I get, and are part of an introduction into a new direction that Im taking for From Here 2 Timbuktu which I will be announcing soon.

Please message me here, or call me on the WhatsApp button (+223 75586274) or email [email protected] of you are interested.

18/04/2021

The continent where life began is so much more diverse than many Westerners understand. Naledi K. Khabo, one of its foremost advocates, explains how travelers are beginning to see these ancient lands anew.

18/04/2021

Remembering the Dogon Country, the extraordinary heart of Mali.
We're going back asap....

03/12/2019

A Berber's Marriage Caravan Departs in One Month!!

A Berber's Marriage Caravan Departs in One Month!! - https://mailchi.mp/c5dfe7ad8e74/a-berbers-marriage-caravan-departs-in-one-month

23/11/2019

Upcoming Nomad Caravans with From Here 2 Timbuktu ....

Upcoming caravans to beat those winter blues.... - https://mailchi.mp/a889736c486f/upcoming-caravans-to-beat-those-winter-blues-1355309

We are planning a trip around the International Nomad Festival in M'Hamid in Marrakesh (19-21 March 2020). It might involve camels and the amazing Draa Valley! More details coming soon. Please let me know if you are interested.  

10/11/2019

Help Jimmy Carter get a London Taxi from here 2 Timbuktu - https://mailchi.mp/2cfd503b868e/help-jimmy-carter-get-a-london-taxi-from-here-2-timbuktu
Give Courage Hope, check inside...
This is a Go Fund Me project.

03/11/2019

Photos: Between Sea and Sahara Camels Ship by Car'n'train!

Photos: Between Sea and Sahara Camels Ship by Carv'n'train! - https://mailchi.mp/df05e3ba205a/photos-between-sea-and-sahara-camels-ship-by-carntrain

Remember Remember the 5th of November for
10 % discount Feb 2020 Caravan

Mauritania is literally the wild wild west, just of Africa, and a final frontier for adventure travellers being one of the least known and most remote places on earth. The Romans gave it its name, Berbers, Arabs and Africans its "black" and "white"  Maure culture.  What always strikes me here i...

29/10/2019

WHERE Mauritania? This way! - https://mailchi.mp/3d8107bb1f6d/mauritania-this-way-1000333

25/10/2019

FromHere2Timbuktu.com's cover photo

16/10/2019

The First University in the World

The First University in the World

Around 800 years ago, in what is today known as ‘Mali’, there stood an ancient city called Timbuktu, which was well known for its rich…

02/01/2018

Lake Natron Camp - Rift Valley - Tanzania

Lake Natron Camp with From Here 2 Timbuktu.

Active Tanzania - stunning treks from Ngorongoro Highlands to Natron, mountain bike from Serengeti to Natron, gorge & waterfall hikes, climb to the summit of Oldonyo Lengai, the only active carbonatite volcano in the world!

19/12/2017

West Africa Travel Guide

West Africa Travel Guide

A comprehensive resource site offering everything you need to know in order to travel West Africa. Stories, tips and advice, photos, transport routes and more.

27/10/2017

Sangha Lodge

One of our destinations, Dzanga Sangha in Central Africans Republic, has made it into the Guardian's best wildlife trips. Dzanga Sangha offers perhaps the best Western Lowland Gorilla viewing available and all without huge treks.

Wow!!!!! we Made the guardians choice of 10 best wildlife experiences... Thanks to great clients who support us all the way.

30/09/2017

Nomad Traveller - Campfire

We are preparing 2 self-drive overland trips this year and are interviewing for

London to Timbuktu, our signature Sahara overland trip in January 2018

and London to Iran to launch our expansion into Arabia and Persia in April/May 2018 with our new membership site Campfire: http://campfire.fromhere2timbuktu.com

We have our own 4x4 live in truck and will lead 2 other vehicles.

Price is £7,500 per vehicle, plus costs of travel.

Special Offer for the First vehicle booked £6000

Welcome to Campfire. We are nomads and guides with tales of adventures from here to Timbuktu. We are caravans to exotic lands, with camps and guiding stars lighting our way. Gather close, warm yourself by the campfire. We are planning tomorrow's dreams! We have local secrets, keys of the road and tr...

03/09/2017

African Architectural Genius

Mali, West Africa

This is one of hundreds of large adobe mosques in Mali that are NOT in Djenne. This style is spread throughout Mali and other regions of West Africa.

05/07/2017

From Here 2 Timbuktu is going Sahara Overland and the River Niger back home to Timbuktu in January 2018 and February 2018.

Join us anytime from Dec to Feb as we launch our new travel membership forum Campfire with our signature journey to Timbuktu.

Check out CAMPFIRE here: http://campfire.fromhere2timbuktu.com/categories/all

It's work in progress, membership is free but get in early before we launch and Subscribe over the next two months as we build and we'll give you two years access for the price of one for your constructive comments.

http://fromhere2timbuktu.com/upcoming-trips-led-by-guy/sahara-overland

15/05/2017

Why the chroniclers of Timbuktu are the city’s most innovative writers

Why the chroniclers of Timbuktu are the city’s most innovative writers

Historical documents about the ‘gilded city’ offer a visionary merging of myths and facts

10/05/2017

Episode 1, Series 1, Morocco To Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure - BBC Two

Not sure what this will be like. Intrigued to see how it is an Arabian adventure!

Alice Morrison journeys into the history of ancient and modern Morocco.

08/05/2017

Senegal travel guide. Helping Dreamers Do

Our Senegal Cruise is featured on Responsible Travel http://www.responsibletravel.com/holidays/senegal/travel-guide

Senegal travel guide. Honest & easy to read Senegal travel guide including map and highlights. Find out more with our Senegal travel guide.

07/05/2017

Autour du Bou

Cruise Senegal from the Atlantic to the Sahara with www.fromhere2timbuktu.com.

Avril 2017

02/05/2017

Upcoming trips currently booking:

Mali, 2 weeks to include Dogon country trekking with Djenne, Mopti and Segou and river Niger from 21 June 2017; Special offer €1500.

Sahara Overland Mali-Mauritania-Morocco from late July 2017 to beginning of September which you can join for 2,3 or 5 weeks. Prices from €1500 (10 days) - €4500 (40 days)

Festival on the Niger with River Niger "Pinasse" trip across Mali to Timbuktu plus Dogon trekking and Tuareg community project, booking well for February 2018, 2 or 3 weeks, Prices from €2650

Kingdom At the End of the Road - Culture, coast, remote mountain community and wildlife in Cameroon for Nov/Dec 2017.

Email [email protected] for more information
or visit www.fromhere2timbuktu.com

02/05/2017

America just warned all its citizens against travelling to the UK

Trump is simply making sense of a decade of Western governments' travel alerts and security advice.

African tourism has been decimated in the past ten years, driving economic collapse, aiding and abetting migration, rebellion, conflict and terrorism in Africa and EUROPE because of precisely this "something might happen one day somewhere" attitude to travel security in the non-western world.

If something might happen one day somewhere in Africa - a continent the size of USA, Europe, China, India, Argentina and New Zealand put together - it is 10 X more likely to happen in Europe and, with 300,000,000 guns on its streets, 1000s X more likely to happen in the USA.

If you want to stay safe from the random nutter get out of Europe and the USA and head for Africa!

The US State Department has issued a new terror alert warning Americans about travelling to Europe. The notice cited incidents linked to terrorism in France, Russia, Sweden and the UK as evidence Isis, al-Qaeda and affiliated groups could carry out terror attacks on the continent.

27/04/2017

Sands of time: Saharan Africa in the 1930s – in pictures

Sands of time: Saharan Africa in the 1930s – in pictures

Czech photographer Ludwig Jindra was sent on a world tour by his government – and opened up understanding about Tuareg culture and beyond

10/03/2017

When Free Movement Is Banned The Free Should Keep Moving

http://fromhere2timbuktu.com/blog/entry/general/when-free-movement-is-banned-the-free-should-keep-moving

Trump's Muslim travel ban is non-sensical but western travellers have been listening to non-sensical politics and banning themselves from Muslim countries for years. It is time for travellers to realise their power to change the world. The US must be at a very high security risk for its President to...

07/03/2017

The Responsible Traveler

The Responsible Traveler

The responsible traveler is a nomad
Free to roam with diplomatic pass
Carrying a stranger's respect and intuition
Guided only by what he sees.

The responsible traveler is safe
Trusting the knowledge and care
Of her ancestral community
Serving the roadside along the way.

Travelers marching are responsible
World ambassdors and prophets of peace,
Humanity's messengers, mirror windows
Reflecting nomad hearts and eyes onto nomad feet.

The Responsible Traveler
The responsible traveler is a nomadAmbassador to the worldCarrying the stranger's respect and intuitionGuided only by what he sees.
The responsible traveler is safeTrusting the knowledge and careOf his ancestral communityServing his roadside along the way.
Travelers are resp...

02/03/2017

Taragalte 2016 - Dreaming of a better Sahara

Wonderful article by Andy Morgan on the Sahara. We will be running a trip to Taragalte Festival in Oct 2017.

Songs of hope from 3 generations of desert guitarists

02/03/2017

The 32 most dangerous countries in the world

Er... How many attacks in Europe over the past 3 years? The country where you have the biggest risk of getting shot? With 300,000,000 guns first prize goes to USA.
An American is more likely to killed by an American in America than to die abroad of any means whatsoever, even natural causes!
Why is it that journalists, politicians, insurance companies etc just cannot see the illogicality behind all this? Of course Libya and Syria and Yemen are dangerous, they are at war. But for the rest... it's bu****it politics.
Just been to Kenya. Hundreds and hundreds of miles of gorgeous coast empty of tourism. Why? Fear of pirates!! You'd be more likely to be killed by a shark. Guess where the tourists will go in Kenya - on safari, walking with lions!

One of the most dangerous countries to travel to in Africa? South Africa. But white people there.

The results of an inquest into the killing of 38 holiday makers in Sousse two years ago at the hands of terrorist Seifedine Rezgui has once more brought into sharp focus the dangers tourists can face when travelling to countries where there are potential threats of terrorism or unrest.