 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
WATERING HOLE: Nomad boys fill leather bags with water from a well at an oasis in the Sahara, north of Timbuktu. More than 1,000 years after their ancestors first crossed the desert from North Africa, Tuaregs and Moors, the nomads of the Sahara, are struggling to keep the remnants of desert life alive. |  |