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Timimoun is a town with a population of about 50000 inhabitants, located in the northern border of the Tademait plateau, next to a wide palm garden and salt lakes, peering towards the first reddish sands of the Grand Erg Occidental.

Timimoun is characteristic by its architecture built in red ochre adobe, which is an example of the sudanese architecture from southern Mali (since Mali was called Sudan in the time of the french colonization). In the sudanese architecture, buildings are made of the same clay that forms the ground, so roads and buildings look seamlessly connected, as if buildings had just risen out of the ground. Instead of using bricks to assemble the walls, the clay is attached around a structure made from wooden trunks and then modelled in the same way that a statuette or a pot would be. The philosophy of this architecture is to be an extension of nature, giving the buildings an organic look.