The village consisted then of about 70 mud-built, straw-thatched houses.
SURROUNDED by rice fields and fishing boats, the mud-built town of Diabaly sits in the agricultural heartland of Mali.
It consists of some 500 mud-built tower houses resembling skyscrapers, some of them as many as 11 storeys high.
But only when they paraded through the mud-built streets of the mystical town of Timbuktu two days later did the triumph feel real.
A few species make extensive use of saliva as a cement for mud-built nests, especially the swallow tribe, the South American ovenbird, and the flamingo.
Some will pass through thousands of twisting warrens of slums fanning out into the red-orange, mud-built hamlets and reed-thatched huts.
Tourists would visit her camp – actually a mud-built house, with a small shop – and drink sweet tea in the shade.
A one-street mud-built huddle, dedicated to making counterfeit modern weapons, Darra was once a favourite of western backpackers; for a few dollars, they got to fire an anti-aircraft gun or lob a grenade.
"So we decided to build from clay". For the project at the Mabarra al-Rahma school in Shujaiyeh he studied mud-built designs on the internet to pick up long-forgotten techniques.
I took in the old walls of the city and a striking, spiky-roofed, mud-built mosque.
"At least 15,000 mud-built houses were damaged by the cyclone in our district," Sirajul Islam, an official in Bangladesh's Noakhali district in Chittagong, told AFP news agency.
