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Melanie van Loutte, of Bruges, Belgium, strolls the beach before the second day's launch onto the Niger River. Van Loutte and fellow travelers made the three-day boat journey from Mopti, Mali, to the fabled desert city of Timbuktu.



A passing pinasse blurs by in the early morning light on the Niger River.



Women wash clothes and bathe as the sun sets over the Niger River in Niafunké, Mali.



A local Bozo man relaxes beneath a tarp as meat ages in the sun in a riverside village along the Niger.



Passenger Dan Greaves, of Madrid, Spain, waves to a passing pinasse.



Robyn Paiba, of London, rests against the gunwale of the boat after sunset. Coals for a cooking fire glow in a small stove nearby.


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