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The route : adaptable
example on request
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The suggested stay
The flight Paris
to Niamey
lasts five hours and half. Above these hours of flight,
it is necessary to add up twelve hours drive on the
picturesque and battered
road which will leads to Agadez.
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Day
1 : Arrival with Niamey,
visit of Niamey,
put up by the inhabitant
Day 2 : Walk on the dunes of Chiriet
and sleep under the stars on the dunes
Day
3 : Niamey-Nkonni- Agadez put
up by the
hotel
Day 4 : Oasis of Timia,
swimming at the Cascade and sleep under the stars at
the Cascade
Day 5 :Visit the ruins of Assodé, the marble and the varied
landscape of the Aïr Massif. Night at Zagado
Day 6 : Walk on the dunes of Chiriet
and sleep under the stars on the dunes
Day 7 : Oasis of Iferouane
Day 8 : Sleep under the stars at Laylay,
extraordinary landscape and sight at the sunset. Visit
the rupestral engravings.
Day 9 : Sikerat and night in
the camping of the wandering Tuaregs
Day
10 : Circuit on camels
Day
11 : Continuation of the circuit on camels.
Afternoon at Agadez and put up by the hotel
Day
12 :
Visit
of Agadez
and departure for Niamey
Day
13 : Visit of Niamey
and departure by night for Paris
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1
267 000 Km2 including 800 000 Km2 of desert:
Aïr and Ténéré
Saharian climate in the North, sahelian in
the remainder of the country
The Niger river, 3rd in Africa, crosses the
country over 500 km
12 500 000 inhabitants - 9 hab/Km2 - urban
Population: 23 %
50
% of the population are old less than 15 years.
The
basin of the Niger river concentrates the
essence of agriculture, the economy and population
Mining Resources: uranium, iron, gold, oil,
coal, phosphate, limestone, salt
GNP: 2M. € - PNB per capita: 200 €
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Budget of the State: 26% of the GDP
Trade Balance: chronical deficit
Debt: 2M €
Indicating of Human Development (IDH): 0,206-
rank IDH: 173/174...
Principal
cities: Niamey (capital - 800 000 hab.), Zinder,
Maradi,Tahoua, Agadez
Official Language: French. The most spoken
language: Haoussa
Ethnic groups: Haoussa (53%), Djerma (21%),
Tuareg (11%), Peulh (10%), Kanouri, Toubou.
Religion: Muslims (85%), Animisms, Christians
Community network and very dense associative
fabric
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Rice
plantations along the Niger river around Niamey
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Niger
must be visited. It is an unforgettable
experience.It offers to the visitor
an invaluable gift: a beautiful,
simple and hard, human too human
with creative people and oneiric
lives in landscapes of a rare beauty
and in heteroclite cities but with
a spirit which runs everywhere and
at any moment, a young spirit, unmethodical,
hospitable, colored. Alive.
Niamey,
the capital of Niger, is a strong
city by its ethnic mixtures, its
paradoxes which mix the life of
the box and the world of the city
and by the manner in which people
cope with little in little and to
remain standing up with nothing..
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Agadez,
formerly targuie capital, legendary city of
North for the travelers and the merchants
since hundreds of years, show in the mountains
of Aïr and the desert of Tenere where
all seems motionless but where colors, the
lights, times and the forms are repeated and
changing.
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The
mosque of Agades, clay fact built at the beginning of
the 16th century
Infinite
sand dunes, mountainous citadels, magic sunrises
and sunsets. It is there where the kingdom of
the nomads is. Where it is so difficult to survive
that those which resist humbly and collectively
gain in nobility and freedom. There still the
daily tasks consisting in making goat's milk
cheese and walking all day long to supply themselves
out of water and to find grass for the goats.
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But
there is also, here and there, the hidden oasis
which abound of fruits, as in Timia where small
rivers sprinkle the palm trees, the orchards
of orange trees, pomegranates, peach trees and
of date palms. There are the oasis of Ifeourane
and its Tuareg festivals. There is Sikerat where,
around wells and few means, secular stockbreeders
try to become gardeners. They seek to ensure
the autonomy of their subsistence and to offer
a school to their children to take up the challenge
of the cultural erosion which threatens them.
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The valleys of Tefarat to Timia shelter the
luxuriant oases of Aïr mountains.
The oases in the heart of Aïr emerged
to the foot of old mountains, raised and fractured
by a late volcanic activity :
Iferouane au pied du Tamgak and Timia des
Bagzanes.
The Tuaregs Kel Eweye, traditionally stockbreeders
of goats, became, here, gardeners. In this
austere area strewn with old volcanos craters,
the mountainous oasis of Timia is a harbour
of greenery in a lunar but accessible universe.
Its houses in clay fact built and its palm
plantation extends to 200 kms from Agadez.
More than one hundred of gardens supplied
with the "Noria" systems form attics
à ciel ouvert, full of corn, oranges,
grapefruits, dates, figs and mint which provide
the market of Agadez.
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The
Sahara is vast but it is fragile. Pollution,
the absurd and the suffering reach it. The Sahara
is beautiful, but it is not only a desert, nomadic
populations resist, wish to live there and to
protect it. The Tuareg nomads are people with
the strong but so modern identity. Free people
but faithful to their history and the values
of a desert which it can tame and which forges
its myths and its lives, even in the city.
.Simple and immense lives, released from the
borders and time and which require to share
the respect and the recognition. You should
know them, discover the landscapes of which
they are still the guards and to share one moment
of their fabulous world and their humble lives.
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If
you do not like to forget a gift which would
come from God, Niger should be known. Once
known, Niger will made itself never forgotten.
It is incomparably human and beautiful.
to have a Dream ...
...
and to Rave Color Coffee
...
...
Taste of bread...
... and fresh water ...
Them
&
You
The
other one
You & Them
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