Label your journal entry “Taghaza, March, 1324, dusk.” As you make camp in Taghaza, you hear grumblings in the hajj. Questions are being asked about the
route taken north. Aren’t there other ways to get across the Sahara? You are both intimidated and fas-
cinated by this town literally made of salt. What do you think of it? How do you feel about the route
the hajj has taken?