If you hear someone say, “From here to Timbuktu,” he means a place faraway. Timbuktu is a trading center in the country of Mali in western Africa. It is near the south end of the Sahara desert. Timbuktu is sometimes called the meeting point of the camel and the canoe. Every year in the months of March and June, great camel caravans come to Timbuktu. The people in the caravans come from many places to trade goods with one another. After all has been traded, whatever is left is taken to the banks of the Niger River. The canoes then carry the goods to other parts of Africa. Timbuktu was once the chief trading center in western Africa, but now it is more of a military and medical center and a center for Moslem learning.
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