In-Gall — sometimes written Ingal — is a small Tuareg oasis town on the southern edge of the Aïr Mountains in central Niger, about 130 km west of Agadez. For most of the year it is a sleepy place of mud-brick compounds, doum-palm groves, and a few hundred permanent residents. For one week each September it becomes the host of the Cure Salée — the Salt Cure — when tens of thousands of Tuareg and Wodaabe Fulani nomads converge from across the central Sahara to bring their herds to the surrounding salt pans and to gather for camel races, market trading, and the famous Gerewol courtship ceremony of the Wodaabe.
Outside the festival, In-Gall is the gateway to the Tegidda-n-Tessoumt salt pans 80 km north — one of the last places in West Africa where salt is still produced by traditional evaporation in earthen basins — and to the dramatic landscapes of the southern Aïr. The town's own attractions are modest: a small market, a sand-mosque rebuilt in the local style, and a few merchant houses dating back to the trans-Saharan trade era.
Visiting Niger is currently extremely difficult. Following the 2023 military coup the country has restricted foreign access; armed groups operate across much of the north, and most Western governments advise strongly against all travel. Reaching In-Gall requires a Saharan-experienced fixer working out of Agadez and the appropriate permissions from the military authorities. Independent travel is not recommended.