From Here to Timbuktu

So, I had an amazing idea today.  While I'm in Africa I have to visit Timbuktu!  I mean, how awesome would that be?!  I'd be able to say I've been to Timbuktu and that phrase would never be the same.  So I wikipedia'd it.  And it turns out that it's in Mali.  Which just had a governmental overthrow in April.  Poo.