Timbuktu Attractions
- Tuareg Doors and Commemorative Plaques
The plaque commemorating Major Gordon Laing - the first European to reach Timbuktu .. on a newly mudded wall, as can be seen by all the marks left by the mudders' fingers.
"Now keep still and pose for the Toubab, my son !!"
A plaque commemorating
Rene Caillié .. the first European to survive the journey
and return home to his native France to tell the tale .. who arrived in Timbuktu in 1828.
A slightly older door beneath the plaque of D. W. Berky
Henrich Barth .. the third European, a German, who arrived in the City in 1853
D.W Berky .. the first American to reach Timbuktu in 1912
