 PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRENNAN LINSLEY/AP
|  | The Salt of Life Life is hard for the nomadic people of the Sahara Desert who live and work along the 450-mile salt road from Timbuktu
OFF TO TIMBUKTU: Nomadic herders look on as a southbound camel caravan, heavily laden with blocks of salt, passes en route to Timbuktu, several days' journey to the south. Along the 450-mile-long salt road, an unmarked path that can leave the unprepared lost in minutes, life looks much as it did centuries ago. |  |