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A city of Mud, Turkmenistan, Asia

Mud, mud, mud

Mud is a building material dating back centuries ago.

Here in Turkmenistan, are the ruins of the great Kyz-Kala from the 6th century BC.The Great Kyz Kala, or “Maiden’s Castle,” is the largest in a group of buildings outside the west wall of Sultan Kala, which includes, the Lesser Kyz Kala, 250 meters (820 feet) to the south, the Kyz Bibi complex, approximately 300 meters (984 feet) to the north-east, and two more köshks, or fortress-like buildings, to the north.

The Greater Kyz Kala is the largest köshk in the Merv Oasis, only a little smaller than the Palace in Shahriyar Ark. This two-story köshk, approximately aligned north-south, consists of a rectangular platform with sloping sides with corrugated walls above.

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Timbuktu, the golden city

‘La perle du désert’

Capitale administrative malienne, située aux portes du désert saharien, Tombouctou est l’une des villes d’Afrique dont le nom est le plus chargé d’histoire.
Naguère métropole commerciale et financière, outre la traite des esclaves, on y échangeait de l’or : le sel, une denrée princière ou or blanc du Nord, et le précieux métal qui partait dans les salons dorés de la renaissance.
Ce bel ensemble de maisons est construit en banco ou terre crue ( à Tombouctou, le crépi est remplacé par des pierres) dont la texture sableuse rappelle le sel, enveloppé de la chaleur caressante de l'or.

Mali's administrative capital, located at the gates of the Saharan desert, Timbuktu is the African city whose name is overflowing of history.
Formerly a commercial city, on top of slave trade, people exchanged gold: salt, the 'white gold' of the North, and precious metal that went into the gilded salons of the Renaissance.
This beautiful collection of houses is made with banco, a great composition giving it a sandy texture recalling salt wrapped with the caressing warmth of gold.

mud city, mud people Photo credit: JM

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Djenne mud mosque and market
Photo credit: Carsten ten Brink

Djingareyber Mosque Photo credit: David Lantner

Adobe construction; Shibam, skyscraper of mud; Turkmenistan, oldest mud city; Djenne, biggest mud building

Gorée, un sanctuaire de terre rouge, ocre et safran ...

L’histoire a laisse derrière cette île aux portes du ‘non retour’, un dédale de ruelles qui invite l’âme romanesque à l’évasion.

Les allées des sombres quartiers des esclaves, dernier refuge de onze millions d’africains, transpirent d’émotion aussi accablante que le flamboiement des élégantes maisons des marchands d'esclaves.

Porte de non retour, symbole de l’esclavage puis sanctuaire pour la réconciliation, cette île est d’un charme indéniable, aux couleurs chatoyantes de ses murs crépis, terre, ocre ou safran, perlés de fleurs violettes, jaunes ou roses des bougainvilliers.

History has left behind this island of the gate of 'no return', a maze of alleys inviting romantics to reverie.

The alleys of the dark slave quarters, last refuge of eleven million Africans, sweat of heavy emotion, as oppressive as the flaming of the elegant houses of slave traders.

A door of no return, symbol of slavery then sanctuary for reconciliation, this island is of undeniable charm, with the shimmering colors of mud, ocher or saffron of its roughened walls, beaded with violet, yellow or pink flowers of its bougainvillea’s.