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October 2006
Adventure in Niger
On a recent long weekend, four Americans and four Brits set off for an adventure to Niger. Niger is a country of twelve and half million people and is one of the poorest countries in the world. Our quest was the Cure Salee (Salt Festival), held annually in September, in the small oasis town of Ingall near Agadez at the edge of the Sahara Desert. The Cure Salee is a one hundred year old festival, at which the nomadic Tuareg and Fulani tribes come in from the desert to celebrate the rainy season and to allow their animals to drink the salty water and eat the plants, which are at their peak at this time of year. With camel races, camel displays, a market of silverwork and leather goods and traditional dancing by matrimony seeking members of the Wodaabe people, a group of Fulani, it promised to be a good adventure. And a good adventure it was, but not the one we intended...
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