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Timbuktu!

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If I were a cassowary
On the plains of Timbuctoo,
I would eat a missionary,
Cassock, bands, and hymn-book too
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Where's Timbuktu?
Other tourists in Tombouctou The poem on the left is about Timbuktu (sometimes spelt Tomboutou or Timbuctoo). Read the poem, and look at the photo and the map. What can you see? What can you guess? What does it make you think about?
Does Timbuktu seem very strange to you?

Go on a virtual visit to TimbuktuClick!

 

Photograph by Rhodri Jones/Oxfam GB