A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Savare, Mali by TravelPod blogger Modernnomad67 titled "Road Back From Timbuktu, Mali, Nov 13 - 14, 2007" Modernnomad67’s travel blog entry: "Since we arrived in Timbuktu by boat and left by road (mostly), I think it's appropriate to call it the road from Timbuktu rather than the road to Timbuktu. Either way, though, I can now say I've been to Timbuktu and back. We returned to the ferry port on the Niger River we arrived at a few days before and waited in line for at least an hour for a small crowded ferry that could carry a maximum of three trucks. There were quite a few foot passengers on the ferry too, including several young women with whom members of my group got into a conversation. They were breast feeding their babies who quickly became the center of everyone's attention. One woman (rather naively) asked some of the younger female members of my group if they'd like to nurse the babies too. The day's drive south was through a scrubby, sandy, burnt-looking landscape where we saw only a few Fulani nomads and their cattle herds and a couple small settlements of mud and branch huts. Meanwhile, the unpaved road for most of the distance was some of the worst corrugated washboard I've experienced anywhere, making for a very dusty and bumpy ride, one especially unpleasant because of the scorching heat. Our campsite for the night was at a spot near a towering rock escarpment with low brush, dry grass, and acacia thorn ...