Follow the old caravan routes that reached back to marrakesh and fez and out across the sahara to timbuktu mali niger and old sudan carrying salt metals pearls and writing paper were brought from europe and the maghreb where they were exchanged for gold slaves ivory and ostrich feathers well into the nineteenth century taste the charms of the simple life of the desert blue men with nights in bivouac under the bedouin tents or under the stars around a campfire