Mauritania Travel Blogs

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mauritania
Dec 5, 2008 (46 photos)

Desert fun on the way to Mali.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...