Sahara
Day 27: Chinguetti
With the owner of a one-room library in Chinguetti. In his case the family silver is the written word.

From the battlements of Fort Saganne, Chinguetti, seventh holiest city of Islam, looks a place of substance and civility.
When we drive into the old town, across the bone-dry football pitch that occupies the flat plain between old and new Chinguetti, the reality is rather different. For a start, the taller and more spectacular of the two minarets turns out to be a water tower.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Sahara
- Day: 27
- Country/sea: Mauritania
- Place: Chinguetti
- Book page no: 92
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