Transport in Niger

thumb|right|A camel train traveling from Agadez to Bilma (Niger), 1985. thumb|right|Slabs of salt from the mines of Taoudenni stacked on the quayside at the port of Mopti (Mali) thumb|right|Rock salt at the market in Mopti. It is sold here in slabs, broken and weighed, and packaged into smaller amounts. The Azalai (Tamasheq, var. Azalay) is a semi-annual salt caravan route practiced by Tuareg traders in the Sahara desert between Timbuktu and the Taoudenni salt mine in Mali, or the act of traveling with a caravan along that route.