Mauritania Travel Blogs

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St Louis, St Louis, Senegal travel blog
St Louis
Jan 13, 2003 (7 photos)

... girl joined us and planned to stay until Dakar. We left Nouadhibou to make our way to Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania. Soon after leaving we encountered a police check. When you enter the country you have to declare your foreign currency and ...

A travel blog entry from St Louis by kevandsian
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Nouakchott, Nouakchott, Mauritania travel blog
Nouakchott
Jan 7, 2003 (6 photos)

Hi Guys, You can read our update on Nouakchott in our entry from St Louis, Senegal. Cheers, K & S

A travel blog entry from Nouakchott by kevandsian
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Nouadibou, Nouadibou, Mauritania travel blog
Nouadibou
Jan 3, 2003 (4 photos)

Hi Guys, You can read our update on Nouadibou in our entry from St Louis, Senegal. Cheers, K & S

A travel blog entry from Nouadibou by kevandsian
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4th of July, Rosso, Mauritania travel blog
4th of July
Jul 9, 2008 (104 photos)

... in the direction I thought was right.  My crackerjack sense of direction served me well and I no sooner entered our house than the dust storm developed into a torrential downpour, lasting the rest of the evening.  Ahhh.  Life in Mauritania.

A travel blog entry from Rosso by mikelbt
De Nouakchott à Richard Toll (Sénégal), Richard Toll, Senegal travel blog
De Nouakchott à Richard Toll (Sénégal)
Feb 4, 2008 (5 photos)

Nous avons décidé de quitter la Mauritanie par le Sénégal pour éviter d'exposer davantage nos vies qui vous sont précieuses. Le hasard a fait que nous avons retrouvé Jacques (Routard armé d'un vrai 4x4, c'est à dire le même que Big Toy!) et Geoges, grand pêcheur ...

A travel blog entry from Richard Toll by jpbigan
Nouakchott - son attentat - son port de pêche, Nouakchott, Mauritania travel blog
Nouakchott - son attentat - son port de pêche
Feb 4, 2008 (5 photos)

Tout d'abord l'attentat! Il s'est produit à 200m de l'enroit où nous avons choisi de dormir, la même maison d'hôte que nous avions essayée en allant vers l'Adrar. Cette action viait visiblement la boite de nuit où l'alcool est en vente libre. Il parait ...

A travel blog entry from Nouakchott by jpbigan
de Matam à Bakel, Bakel, Senegal travel blog
de Matam à Bakel
Feb 7, 2008 (5 photos)

Nos célèbres reporters ont décidé ce soir que les 1/2 finales de la coupe d'Afrique de football étaient plus importantes pour le contact avec les populations que leurs élucubrations plus ou moins humoristiques quotidiennes. Néanmoins par amour du ...

A travel blog entry from Bakel by jpbigan
Mauritania, Nouakchott, Mauritania travel blog
Mauritania
Apr 9, 2009 (2 photos)

4th - Passed border without being searched and headed off to Nouadhibou and spotted the world's longest train - the iron ore train.  Changed the front right hand tyre again as a bubble had appeared.  Sat in a local shop while a guy changed ...

A travel blog entry from Nouakchott by andrewsinclair
Mauritania, Nouakchott, Mauritania travel blog
Mauritania
Dec 5, 2008 (46 photos)

Desert fun on the way to Mali.

A travel blog entry from Nouakchott by arlash
NKT and Kaedi, Awainatt Zbill, Mauritania travel blog
NKT and Kaedi
Mar 28, 2009 (16 photos)

Greetings everyone.  I am just sitting through our fourth, yes, and fourth day of rain in a row.  It is pretty unusual to have any rain at all right now, but after about six months of nothing, everyone is pretty happy.  I just wish the ...

A travel blog entry from Awainatt Zbill by mikelbt
On my way to Dakar!, Awainatt Zbill, Mauritania travel blog
On my way to Dakar!
Feb 4, 2009 (17 photos)

... ceremony and party was to the south.    I wish I could have taken a lot of pictures, but some people in Mauritania are pretty sensitive on the subject, so I usually refrain from taking any when there are large groups of people.  I gave ...

A travel blog entry from Awainatt Zbill by mikelbt
Terjit, Atar, Mauritania travel blog
Terjit
Jan 27, 2008 (4 photos)

De Nouakchott à Atar, 400 km de désert total. Arrivée à la nuit tombée à l'oasis de Terjit, 40 km avant Atar. Vent de sable continu sur tout le parcours. Diner en bivouac avec nos compagnons de voyage retrouvés (Michel et Chantal en Land Rover -26- les ...

A travel blog entry from Atar by jpbigan
De banc d
De banc d'Argain à Nouakchott
Jan 25, 2008 (5 photos)

Le banc d'Argain: 2 jours hors du temps et du monde, seuls sur une plage de 500km au milieu du Sahara. Partis à 3 equipages dont un s'est perdu en route. Installation à Cap Tagarit sous une tente avec 2 matelas poses sur le sol, pas d'eau, pas d'electricite ...

A travel blog entry from Nouakchott by jpbigan
Pour Laurence d
Pour Laurence d'Arabie: Guelb er Richat
Feb 1, 2008 (10 photos)

Nous voici au coeur de cet étrange accident géologique dont l'origine reste un mystère. Nous avons nos propres hypothèses.... A suivre....

A travel blog entry from Guelb er Richat by jpbigan
Maxence story (3ème épisode), Matam, Senegal travel blog
Maxence story (3ème épisode)
Feb 6, 2008 (4 photos)

Décidément, pas de chance! Le papa de Babacar, Gaoussou a été malade cette nuit car il a mangé hier soir du foie de hyène grillé. La hyène mange les animaux morts qui sont pleins de petites bestioles qui mangent le ventre de Gaoussou. Mais Papy lui a donné les ...

A travel blog entry from Matam by jpbigan
Mauritania
Mauritania's Story
Apr 6, 2009 (28 photos)

... Africa can sometimes be hardwork, requiring everyone of the truck to pick up a shovel and contribute. Overall, Mauritania provided beautiful scenery, colourful people and a memorable overlanding challenge....including not showering for over a week and ...

A travel blog entry from Nouakchott by hmax
Nouadhibou  : ex Port Etienne, Nouadhibou, Mauritania travel blog
Nouadhibou : ex Port Etienne
Jan 22, 2008 (4 photos)

Nous sommes donc partis ce matin tot de Dakhla et avons atteint la frontiere mauritanienne vers 13h30. Fin des formalites a 16h30. Route sous une tempete de sable a decorner les chameaux. On ne vous dira pas ce que l on a vu car on n a rien vu. Mais nous ...

A travel blog entry from Nouadhibou by jpbigan
Sand , blisters, digging and flat tyres, Nema, Mauritania travel blog
Sand , blisters, digging and flat tyres
Apr 12, 2009 (5 photos)

... Sahara. The ancient and elusive town of Oulata is to be our destination. This town is in the middle of nowhere in eastern Mauritania. Hundreds of years ago it was the last staging post for the old camel caravans as they headed to Timbuktu. Nowadays its a ...

A travel blog entry from Nema by bradmccartney
Fronteira Marrocos - Mauritânia, Guerguarate, Morocco travel blog
Fronteira Marrocos - Mauritânia
Sep 18, 2008 (1 photos)

Terras do diabo. Uma picada rochosa sob o chicote ardente do Sol e sob a ameaça de explosão devido as minas plantadas fora do que se ousou chamar o « trilho » para as viaturas circularem. Esse cenario chega a tomar proporções macabras com a lembrança ...

A travel blog entry from Guerguarate by ikono
Mbalal, Rosso, Mauritania travel blog
Mbalal
Jul 19, 2008 (37 photos)

Greetings from Mauritania!   We are back at the training center and will be here for a few days getting our last round of shots (yeah!) and sitting in on a few more training sessions.  And..... on Monday we finally get to find out where our ...

A travel blog entry from Rosso by mikelbt
The General Comes to Town, Awainatt Zbill, Mauritania travel blog
The General Comes to Town
Apr 10, 2009 (39 photos)

Happy Friday everyone,   I hope you are all well. Life is good out here in Awainatt Zbill.  This past week we saw more excitement than we have in a while as General Aziz passed through town on his way to Nema for a speech.  For those of ...

A travel blog entry from Awainatt Zbill by mikelbt
De Atar à Chinghetti, Chinghetti, Mauritania travel blog
De Atar à Chinghetti
Feb 1, 2008 (9 photos)

Avec quelques jours de retard, car nous sommes restés 5 jours en plein vrai désert sans rien du tout. Que du désert, que du rien à l'état originel avec les hommes préhistoriques dont nous avons traqué les vestiges sur les traces de Théodore Monod. Voir les ...

A travel blog entry from Chinghetti by jpbigan
Mbam, Mbam, Senegal travel blog
Mbam
Dec 26, 2005 (10 photos)

At night we were transportd by a cart and a horse pulling it, but others people climb on the cart, these people knew the family we had to encounter. So they descent from the cart really close to the house and went with us. They talked to the sister of ...

A travel blog entry from Mbam by matcel
Du Sahara à l
Du Sahara à l'Afrique Noire : quelques réflexions
Feb 4, 2008

Nous venons de terminer la rude traversée du Sahara, le désert des déserts, au milieu des vents de sables et parfois des tempêtes qui nous abrasaient et décapaient le visage, après avoir échappé aux mines anti chars dissimulées par les rebelles Saraoui, ...

A travel blog entry from Richard Toll by jpbigan
De Atar à Nouakchott, Nouakchott, Mauritania travel blog
De Atar à Nouakchott
Feb 3, 2008 (3 photos)

Les 450 km de goudron sont raplatplat comme les deux mains. Pas grand chose à dire ni à faire sauf de rouler en écoutant de la musique sur l'Ipod : depuis le début du voyage on a écouté Carmen, Norma, la version complète des Beatles et bien d'autres...On a 700 ...

A travel blog entry from Nouakchott by jpbigan
Mauritania, Nouadhibou, Mauritania travel blog
Mauritania
Sep 18, 2008 (5 photos)

... veiculo, apesar de ter todos os papeis e mais alguns, sem procuração o carro não entra na Republica Islâmica da Mauritânia. Durante duas horas destilamos, esperamos pacientemente que o senhor percebesse que não tinhamos como dar gasosa, que nem tinhamos gasosa ...

A travel blog entry from Nouadhibou by ikono
Hassânîya, Rosso, Mauritania travel blog
Hassânîya
Jun 26, 2008 (4 photos)

... the street, whereas some of the other trainees are going to have to take a bush taxi some distance out over the sand to rural Mauritania.  I am really excited, as a number of the friends I made here will be training in Rosso as well, I already have a ...

A travel blog entry from Rosso by mikelbt
Computers and trees, Awainatt Zbill, Mauritania travel blog
Computers and trees
May 15, 2009 (8 photos)

  Greeting from Awainatt Zbill,   Everything is going well here.  I am finally used to the heat again...and the incessant sweating.  Thankfully it still cools down a bit in the evenings, so sleeping isn't so bad.  My house is ...

A travel blog entry from Awainatt Zbill by mikelbt
Model GMC, Rosso, Mauritania travel blog
Model GMC
Aug 13, 2008 (23 photos)

Ish haal-kum!   Hey everyone,   For all of you following the recent political events please know we are all safe.  Our PC Country Director has been keeping a close eye on everything and it looks like we should be able to continue on ...

A travel blog entry from Rosso by mikelbt
Day 28 - Mauritania ? - Cherry Vodka Red Wine, Nouakchott, Mauritania travel blog
Day 28 - Mauritania ? - Cherry Vodka Red Wine
Dec 6, 2008 (17 photos)

Back into the bush camp routine - up at 6.30, breakfast by 7, leave by 8.  The walkers, team hardcore and Suzy went ahead.  I still haven't managed to haul my arse out of bed to join Suzy... I promise I will do it one day soon as I imagine ...

A travel blog entry from Nouakchott by oliveramber