Tenere

East of the Aïr Mountains stretches the Ténéré, an immense expanse of the Sahara. Across its sand lies the route between Aïr and the oases of Kawar, where Bilma's salt was gathered for the journey south. The salt caravans known as the taghlamt connected these desert works with the Hausa countries beyond the mountains. By the fifteenth century Bilma salt was reaching Gobir in quantity.